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ekistan and international community to address the consequences of the Aral

tragedy.
According to the “Earth Times”, prior to 1960s the Aral Sea, alongside with

the Caspian Sea, Victoria and Superior Lake, was the world’s four largest inland

water bodies. With no access to the outer seas that water reservoir had rare species
of fish and they used to trigger a great interest in the world scientific community.

At the moment, Uzbekistan and other countries of Central Asia are sounding
the alarm about that they have made the United Nations aware of this catastrophe’s

economic, social and environmental consequences. By now the volume of water
stream from Amudarya and Syrdarya rivers flowing into the Aral basin equals 12,7
cubic kilometers, which means it is by far as low as 4,5 times compare to the 60s

of the last century.
The story concludes with the information on the International conference

“Developing International Cooperation on Mitigating the Consequences of
Ecological Catastrophe in the Aral Sea Region” held in the city of Urgench on

October 28-29, 2014. According to the British journal, the event served for
increasing the volumes of international aid rendered to the countries of Central
Asia and Uzbekistan, in particular.

Certainly, it needs to be emphasized that there are other positive elaborations
in the British press related to the life of Uzbekistan. The London-based Russian-
language “Profile Russia” news web-portal is well-known media outlet for its fair
and objective materials on Uzbekistan. In its February 27, 2015 issue the portal
placed a news story headlined as “The Representatives of the Great Britain on
Uzbekistan’s Modern Development and Achievements”(7).

The story offered the views of the representatives of the British socio-
political and business circles in terms of the March 29 presidential elections.
“Uzbekistan is indeed a democratic country. Last year I participated as an
international observer in the parliamentary elections and had witnessed that the
elections were conducted in full accordance with democratic principles. As a

businessman I want to especially note that there are profound opportunities to
extend the bilateral cooperation. In this respect, Uzbekistan is a peculiar and
unique country for Britain”, said the chairman and chief executive officer of the
“Pathfinder Trade and Investment” company Michael Thomas.

The representatives of the Chinese media. The observations show that the
“Jinmin Jibao” newspaper and “Xinhua” news agency actively cover Uzbekistan’s
domestic life and its foreign relationships. Besides, both media outlets place a

number of news stories on the course of economic reforms in Uzbekistan, the

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