Turkmenistan interested in the UN environmental conventions

A delegation of the UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) on a visit to Ashgabat is discussing Turkmenistan's joining the UN environmental conventions.

The delegation is led by the UNECE Deputy Executive Secretary Andrey Vasilyev, reports Trend referring to a message from the Turkmen government.

"The parties focused on Turkmenistan's joining the Protocol on Water and Health of the Water Convention. Aside from that, the issues of Turkmenistan's joining the UNECE environmental conventions, including the Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution, the Convention on the Transboundary Effects of Industrial Accidents and several others, were also discussed," Turkmen government said.

During his visit the UNECE representative plans to hold meetings at a number of agencies of Turkmenistan and to participate in the meeting of the coordinating council of the national water policy dialogue.

Turkmenistan joined in 2012 the UN Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes (Water Convention), dated March 17, 1992.