The expert said that having built Kambar-Ata-1, Kyrgyzstan would not hold water resources back. Water just like before will flow into the neighbouring countries. "We have never reduced water discharge over the past 30 years," he stressed.

"We never hold water back like Turkey did in Euphrates river. If Syria and Iran used to receive up to 30bn cu.m. of water before, now Syria gets a little over 16bn cu.m. Syria and Iran cannot do anything about this as it is a sovereign right of Turkey," the expert noted.

In his view, the advantage of Kambar-Ata-1 is that water will be accumulated in winter, and in summer it will make it possible for the neighbours to receive water in the volumes needed to meet Kazakh and Uzbek demand. Kambar-Ata-1 can keep 4.65bn cu.m. of water.

He also recalled that Kambar-Ata-1 had been designed as a regulator of water of the Naryn River in Soviet times, AKIpress reported.