Deal guests, Distinguished participants of the Conference, It gives me an enormous satisfaction to welcome the delegations'of the member-states of the International Fund for Saving the Aral Sea, representatives of international organizations and financial institutions, governments of the donor countries, ecological organizations, diplomatic corps, respected scientists and high-profile experts who are participating in the International Conference “Development of Cooperation in the Region of the Aral Sea to Mitigate Consequences of the Ecological Catastrophe”.