Uzbek Foreign Ministry recalls position of Uzbekistan on Rogun project
02/08/2015 00:18
Uzbek Foreign Ministry recalls position of Uzbekistan on Rogun project
02/08/2015 00:18
Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Uzbekistan recalled position of Uzbekistan to the project on construction of Rogun hydro power station in Tajikistan.
“On 22 July, Minister of Energy and Water Resources of Tajikistan Usmonali Usmonzoda stated that there are no official complaints of Uzbekistan to results of evaluation of international exports on Rogun project,” the press release of the Uzbek ministry said.
In this connection, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Uzbekistan states that the Uzbek side earlier stated its principle position at the meeting of the representatives of the Governments of Central Asia to discuss draft report of the World Bank “Key issues for further consideration of proposed project Rogun hydropower station and issues of use of trans-boundary water resources”, which was held in Almaty on 14-18 July 2014..
The Uzbek Foreign Ministry published full text of the statement of the head of the delegation of Uzbekistan at the meeting Rustam Azimov, in which he said that expertise of the project on construction of Rogun hydropower station do not meet commonly adopted international standards.
Uzbek official said that conclusions of the consultants and panel of experts on Rogun hydropower station are absolutely unacceptable for Uzbekistan.
He said that the consultants and experts only focused its efforts to promote the project, ignoring interests of population and states, located in lower course of Amudarya.
At the meeting, Rustam Azimov said that Uzbekistan would never, under any circumstances, provide support for this project. Uzbekistan believes that the project poses a threat to the fragile ecological balance of the whole Central Asian region.
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