Kyrgyzstan committed to 12 conventions on environmental protection

AKIPRESS.COM - Director of the State Agency for Environmental Protection and Forestry Mirslav Amankulov held a meeting with heads of relevant divisions of the Agency on execution of international conventions in the field of environmental protection, the Agency reported.
The participants reported about the activities carried out in 2019 as part of the international conventions.
At a moment, the Agency is implementing 12 international conventions:
- Framework Convention on Climate Change;
- Convention on Biological Diversity;
- Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer;
- Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade;
- Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movement of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal;
- Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants;
- Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context;
- Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution;
- Aarhus Convention;
- Ramsar Convention on Wetlands of International Importance, mainly as a Habitat for Waterfowl;
- Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES);
- Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals, signed on June 23, 1979 in Bonn. Amankulov stressed the importance of these conventions and their implementation in the country and praised the work carried out by the Agency.