§ Mr. CohenTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what assessment his Department has made of the level of pollution of the Aral sea and scope for aid to redress the situation.
§ Mr. Lennox-BoydThis issue has been the subject of several recent international studies. Alleviating the situation is a priority for the know-how fund in Kazakhstan. The United Kingdom will be represented at the NATO science programme workshop on critical environmental issues of the Aral sea basin in Tashkent in May and at the World bank's Aral sea conference in Paris in June. These discussions will help us to identify what help we might offer through the environmental know-how fund.