Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan discussed issues of environmental protection and air quality

On October 23, Kazhydromet hosted a meeting of representatives of government agencies of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan dedicated to environmental protection and atmospheric air monitoring in the border areas.

The meeting was attended by the delegations of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan headed by Chairman of the Committee for Environmental Regulation and Control of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Kazakhstan E. S. Kozhikov and Deputy Chairman of the National Committee on Ecology and Climate Change of the Republic of Uzbekistan I. A. Kutbiddinov, as well as representatives of RSE Kazhydromet, the National Center for Climate Change, the National Center for Environmental Monitoring and the Agency of the Hydrometeorological Service of Uzbekistan.

The meeting participants discussed further steps to prepare and exchange analytical materials on the state of atmospheric air in the Tashkent and Saryagash regions.

The parties also reviewed the draft Concept of the Clean Air Consortium and discussed the draft Regulations on the Kazakh-Uzbek joint Working Group on atmospheric air in the border territories.

The meeting is aimed at strengthening cooperation between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, exchanging experience and information necessary to study the state of the environment in the border areas.