An online seminar on how to make the work of Aarhus Centres sustainable was organized by the OSCE Centre in Ashgabat on December 9, 2021. Its participants presented best practices from OSCE participating States in implementing effective approaches for making them sustainable, taking into account their legal status.
The event brought together representatives from the Ministry of Agriculture and Environmental Protection, university students and specialists from Magtymguly Youth Organization of Turkmenistan and Public Association Enterprise “Tebigy Kuwwat”.
Two international experts from Kazakhstan and Tajikistan discussed the role of the Aarhus Centre in Turkmenistan in promoting the Aarhus Convention and peculiarities of its legal status. They also discussed effective mechanisms for co-operation and interaction between Aarhus Centres and the government.
Referring to the OSCE Madrid Declaration on Environment and Security and Maastricht Strategy for the Economic and Environmental Dimension, John MacGregor, Head of the OSCE Centre in Ashgabat said: “The Aarhus Convention aims to empower the role of citizens and civil society organizations in environmental matters and is firmly founded on the principles of participative democracy. It serves as an important tool in achieving good environmental governance through providing access to information, public participation and access to justice in all matters related to our planet`s nature that is declining globally”.
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Source: Centre of OSCE in Ashgabat.
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