“Eco” Organization’s support to Uzbekistan in the fight against sand and dust storms

According to the Fars news agency reporter in Tashkent, within the framework of the 21st meeting of the implementation of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, Aziz Abdul Hakimov, the Minister of Environment of Uzbekistan, met with Hossein Avni Bichakli, the Deputy Secretary General of the Economic Cooperation Organization. And the support of the “Eco” organization to Uzbekistan in the fight against sand and dust storms was announced.

In this meeting, Bichakli emphasized the active role of Uzbekistan in the last 5 years and thanked the government of Uzbekistan for successfully holding the 16th Economic Cooperation Organization Summit on November 8 and 9, 2023 in Tashkent. Kurds.

In this meeting, cooperation in the field of research activities, including establishing close relations between scientific circles in the field of ecology of “Eco” countries based on the University of Environmental Studies and Climate Change of Central Asia (Green University) was examined.

At the same time, the parties have the possibility of implementing the principles of sustainable energy and environment in the Central Asian region in cooperation with Green University and the Clean Energy Center in “Baku” (Azerbaijan). examined “Eco” countries.

Deputy Secretary General of “Eco” emphasized the active level of cooperation between Uzbekistan and “Eco” countries in all fields.

Furthermore, the officials of the “Eco” organization expressed their readiness to organize support for the regulation of the initiatives of the “Samarkand” statement in the fight against sand and dust storms in the framework of CRIC-21, which was held by the President of Uzbekistan at the 16th meeting The heads of “Eco” were brought up and expressed.

At the end of the meeting, he discussed the presence of the Secretary General of “Eco” in the “Samarkand” climate meeting and the joint arrangement of the participation of the high-level representatives of the countries of this organization. The agreement was reached.

Economic Cooperation Organization is an intergovernmental regional economic organization and was established in 1985 with a permanent secretariat in the city of “Tehran”. Iran, Pakistan, Turkey, Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan are members of this organization.

including 7 countries Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan voluntarily joined the Economic Cooperation Organization in 1992.

At the 50th session of the United Nations General Assembly in 1995, a resolution on cooperation with the Economic Cooperation Organization was approved and Since then, this organization has the observer position in the United Nations. The Organization of Economic Cooperation also has the supervisory position in the Organization of Islamic Cooperation.
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