Kassym-Jomart Tokayev: “Environmental priorities, grounded in a balanced approach and concrete measures, must prevail over political…”

We must restore water flows, river deltas and wetlands, and bring hydraulic structures into proper condition. Grants, concessional lending and other channels of climate financing can and should support this work.

The Caspian is a single ecosystem that does not recognize state borders, so shared success is impossible without coordinated action in international organizations and financial markets.

We face the task of developing new approaches to the management of transboundary water resources.

We must not allow the Caspian Sea to suffer the same fate.