The agreement between the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Government of the Azerbaijan Republic on cooperation in the field of environmental protection

of June 10, 1997

The government of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Government of the Azerbaijan Republic which are hereinafter referred to as "Party"

proceeding from interests of further expansion and deepening of cooperation in the field of environmental protection and rational use of natural resources;

understanding the responsibility to this and future generation for prevention of world ecological crisis, ecological disasters and catastrophic crashes, degradations of the environment and creation of ecologically harmless habitat;

based on the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Azerbaijan Republic in the field of environmental protection and environmental management;

agreed as follows:

Article 1

The parties cooperate in the field of environmental protection by preserving and improvement of the environment and natural objects on all space of operation of the Agreement;

provide optimum conditions, including economic incentives, to the legal entities and physical persons of the state of one of the Parties extending and using ecologically safe technologies and the equipment conforming to normative requirements of the state of other Party;

inform each other, and also the third parties if it is necessary, about origin or possibility of ecologically dangerous phenomena and catastrophic crashes, jointly to participate in their prevention and liquidation;

Article 2

The parties will cooperate in the field of environmental protection of the Caspian Sea, including:

- preserving and rational use of biological resources, including the migrating species of fish;

- protection of ecology of the marine environment of the Azerbaijani and Kazakhstan sectors of the Caspian Sea;

- protection of the Caspian Sea and prevention of its pollution from waste disposal and other materials;

- interaction of the state control of cross-border transportation of dangerous goods;

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