TURKMENBASHI, Turkmenistan, October 9. Back in
2022, at the Sixth Caspian Summit in Ashgabat, amid the shallowing
of the Caspian Sea, I proposed the creation of special expert
groups to identify the causes of the decline in the sea level and
determine measures to prevent a further drop. The years that have
passed have confirmed the relevance of this initiative, said
President Ilham Aliyev as he addressed the Caspian Environmental
Summit in Turkmenbashi, Trend's special correspondent reports.
“We need to move from general discussion of the problem to
establishing a permanent mechanism of cooperation and monitoring
the implementation of the decisions adopted,” the head of state
said, emphasizing the need, first and foremost, to identify the
full range of factors contributing to the decline in the Caspian
Sea’s level and obtain an objective scientific assessment of how
the situation may develop further.
