95th Meeting of the Interstate Commission for Water Coordination of Central Asia

On 7 October 2026, the 95th meeting of the Interstate Commission for Water Coordination (ICWC) of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Republic of Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and the Republic of Uzbekistan was held in Turkmenbashi, Turkmenistan. The meeting was organized by the Turkmen side and chaired by D. Genjiev, Chairman of the State Committee for Water Management of Turkmenistan.

The meeting was attended by ICWC members, including N. Nurjigitov, Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation of the Republic of Kazakhstan, and Sh. Khamraev, Minister of Water Management of the Republic of Uzbekistan. D. Abdurazokzoda participated on behalf of the Republic of Tajikistan under delegated authority.

The meeting was also attended by the heads of ICWC executive bodies: M. Mahramov, Head of BWO Amu Darya; O. Kholkhudjaev, Head of BWO Syr Darya; D. Ziganshina, Director of SIC ICWC; and U. Nazarov, representative of the ICWC Secretariat. Representatives of the Executive Committee of the International Fund for Saving the Aral Sea (IFAS) and other invited participants also took part in the meeting.

The agenda included the following items:

• Results of the use of water withdrawal limits/quotas and the operation regimes of reservoirs in the Syr Darya and Amu Darya River basins during the 2026 growing season;
• Approval of water withdrawal limits for the countries and forecast operation regimes of the reservoir cascades in the Syr Darya and Amu Darya river basins for the 2026–2027 non-growing season;
• Progress in implementing tasks arising from the summits of the Heads of the IFAS founder states;
• Agenda and venue of the next 96th ICWC meeting.

For the first two agenda items, representatives of BWO Amu Darya and BWO Syr Darya presented reports on water use by the countries during the 2026 growing season. They also presented proposals on country water withdrawal limits and forecast operation regimes of the reservoir cascades for the 2026–2027 non-growing season.

Under the third agenda item, D. Ziganshina, Director of SIC ICWC, reported on the work undertaken by water management organizations and ICWC executive bodies to implement the proposals and initiatives put forward at the summits of the Heads of the IFAS founder states in Turkmenbashi in 2018 and in Dushanbe in 2023.

At the conclusion of the meeting, participants considered the provisional agenda and venue for the 96th ICWC meeting.

Following discussions, the parties reached agreement on the items considered and signed the meeting protocol.