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BISHKEK (TCA) — The EU welcomes the swift ratification by Kyrgyzstan of an agreement that allows environmental remediation in a number of uranium legacy sites in the country to go ahead, the Delegation of the European Union to the Kyrgyz Republic said on August 18. Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) — Senior officials from 12 snow leopard range countries held a meeting in Kyrgyzstan’s capital, Bishkek, on August 2-3 to finalize the agenda and policy documents for the 2017 International Snow Leopard & Ecosystem Forum, scheduled for later this month, UNDP in the Kyrgyz Republic reported. Continue reading
ASHGABAT (TCA) — On June 19, Turkmenistan’s capital Ashgabat hosted the International conference, “Role of the International Fund for Saving the Aral Sea in Developing Cooperation in the Central Asian Region”, Turkmenistan’s state Newspaper Golden Age reported. Continue reading
ASTANA (TCA) — OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President Christine Muttonen (MP, Austria) is wrapping up a week-long visit to Eastern and Central Asia with meetings in southern Kazakhstan on June 16 and 17, the OSCE said. Continue reading
TASHKENT (TCA) — As part of his visit to Central Asia, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on June 10 visited the Aral Sea in Uzbekistan – once the world's fourth largest inland sea, that has now shrunk to about a quarter of its original size due to human mismanagement. The UN chief urged the world to take lesson from the catastrophe and to ensure that such tragedies are not repeated, the UN News Centre reported. Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) — The Issyk-Kul event on June 11-16, organized by the UNDP GEF SGP in Kyrgyzstan, the ICCA Consortium and CENESTA (Iran), will be held in Kyrgyzstan to share knowledge and enhance capacities among key regional actors about how to promote and strengthen appropriate recognition of Indigenous peoples’ and community conserved territories and areas (ICCAs) and appropriate support to them to enhance their effectiveness in the region, the ICCA Consortium said. Continue reading
