Kazakhstan interested in Hungary's best practices in water resources management

Budapest, 8 November 2023 - The "Global Workshop on the Development of Transboundary Water Cooperation Agreements or Other Arrangements" took place in Budapest on 7-8 November 2023.

The event was attended by Aidar Abishev, Ambassador-at-Large of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan, and Meiram Zhumagulov, Deputy director of the International Legal Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

The key objective of the workshop is to support states, basin organizations, international and regional organizations in discussing and developing, through a step-by-step approach, agreements and other arrangements on transboundary rivers, lakes and aquifers.

The workshop provided practical and interactive opportunities for countries and other international and regional actors to learn how to develop sustainable, adaptable and effective transboundary water agreements or to revise existing ones on the basis of case studies from all over the world.

Special attention was given to legal and institutional tools and techniques to prevent or mitigate the reisk of conflict and to promote cooperation.