Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- On 24 October 2022, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Uzbekistan Vladimir Norov, who is in Seoul to participate in the 15th Central Asia-Republic of Korea Cooperation Forum, met with the Chairman of the Assembly of the Global Institute Green Growth (GGGI), former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

The sides discussed the current state and prospects for cooperation between Uzbekistan and the Global Green Growth Institute.

The importance of opening a GGGI representative office in Uzbekistan in February 2022 was noted, which opens up wide opportunities for cooperation in the field of curbing climate change processes, developing "green" technologies and a "green" economy, and decarbonizing industry based on international best practices, including Korean.

In accordance with the agreement between the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) and GGGI, the project “Green Recovery for the Aral Sea Region to Overcome the Consequences of the Aral Sea Crisis”, worth US$5.9 million, is currently being implemented. sea and renewable energy.

For his part, Ban Ki-moon noted that he is well aware of the environmental problems of Central Asia, has repeatedly visited the Aral Sea region, where he personally got acquainted with the catastrophic consequences of the drying up of the Aral Sea.

He focused on the timeliness of the large-scale Yashil Makon initiative put forward by the President of Uzbekistan, as well as the Strategy for the transition to a green economy and the Program for the Development of Renewable and Hydrogen Energy adopted in Uzbekistan.