BAKU, Azerbaijan, March 27. Azerbaijan is set
to engage in discussions concerning the Caspian Sea's declining
water levels at the inaugural meeting of a joint working group
tasked with investigating the causes of this decline, the Embassy
of Kazakhstan told Trend.


This issue was mentioned at a meeting between the Ambassador of
Kazakhstan, Alim Bayel, with the Presidential Representative of
Azerbaijan for Climate Issues, Mukhtar Babayev.


Meanwhile, the meeting will be held as part of the Regional
Environmental Summit in Astana, scheduled for April 22–24, 2026


The parties discussed the issues of the environmental agenda,
the protection of the Caspian Sea ecosystem, preparation for
upcoming joint events, and mutual support for international
initiatives in the field of environmental protection.


Bayel once again invited the Azerbaijani side to actively
participate in the work of the Regional Ecological Summit. The
parties expressed their hope that the meeting would be an important
step towards the creation of a single regional ecological security
system in the Caspian Sea basin.







The ambassador also informed his interlocutor about the
initiative of the President of Kazakhstan, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev,
to establish a full-fledged water organization within the UN
system. Babayev said that Azerbaijan will fully support this
initiative of the Kazakh leader and considered it extremely
relevant in the context of the accumulated problems in the field of
water resources management in the context of global climate
challenges. According to the Representative of the President of
Azerbaijan, the creation of this organization would be a very
timely step, since today water problems are not only of an
ecological nature, but also directly affect security and economic
issues.


Babayev emphasized that the synergy of efforts of Astana and
Baku in environmental protection and climate issues not only meets
the national interests of the two nations but also makes a
significant contribution to the sustainable development of the
Caspian region as a whole. In general, the interlocutors highly
appreciated the dynamics of the development of Kazakh-Azerbaijani
relations, and also confirmed their mutual interest in further
strengthening bilateral and multilateral cooperation in the field
of ecology.


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