Organized by:
Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan;
Kazakhstan National Academy of Natural Sciences;
Science and Technology Center “Parasat”;
International Secretariat “G-Global”.

Concept

Aim: Discussion of the scientific and technical bases to maximize the Eurasian transit, including water transport transit through the territory of Kazakhstan.
Discussion of the scientific bases of rational use of surface and groundwater in Kazakhstan.
Relevance: President of the Republic of Kazakhstan N. Nazarbayev, speaking at the 70th session of the UN General Assembly September 27, 2015, called for rallying around the idea of “Great Eurasia”. It is supposed to bring together in a single integration project of the XXI century the Eurasian Economic Union, the Economic Belt of the Silk Road and the European Union.
As part of this idea the international team of scientists from Kazakhstan, Russia and China began in 2015 to study the best possible options multimodal Eurasian transit through the territory of Kazakhstan and by the end of the year there were the first results.
Eurasian transit through the territory of Kazakhstan and the Russia is by the land, in order to be competitive to southern sea lanes passage through the Suez Canal, Russia and Kazakhstan should increase the share of low-cost water transport transit, which is possible only with the completion of the “Eurasia “Channel”, which connects the Caspian Sea with the Azov-Black Sea basin. Presentations at the panel session will be devoted to scientific rationale of new arguments for the construction of the channel.
Due to the acute shortage of fresh water in Kazakhstan it is necessary to develop a strategy for the rational use of surface and ground water to ensure water security in Astana and other regions of the country through the construction of Trans-Kazakhstan channel “Irtysh-Syrdarya’.
Expected Result: Elaboration of the recommendation on:
cost-effective multi-modal options Eurasian transit through the territory of Kazakhstan, with the maximum use of opportunities of access to the world's oceans;
construction of the Trans Kazakhstan channel “Irtysh-Syrdarya” for sustainable water supply of the city of Astana and other regions of the country;
rational use of surface and groundwater in Kazakhstan.

Program

10:45am

Key questions:
• Discussion of the scientific and technical bases to maximize the Eurasian transit, including water transport transit through the territory of Kazakhstan;
• Discussion of the scientific bases of rational use of surface and groundwater in Kazakhstan.

Moderator:
Nurtay Abykayev, Chairman, International Programme Committee WSEC – 2017, President, Kazakhstan National Academy of Natural Sciences

Welcome speech:
Erlan Sagadiev, Minister of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan
Lida Ivanitskaya, First Vice-President, Russian Academy of Natural Sciences

Speakers:
Anatoly Spitsyn, Professor, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, Director, Institute of Strategic Research of Integration Problems EurAsEC, Vice President, Russian Academy of Natural Sciences
Cui Weihong, Secretary-General, China Science Center of International Eurasian Academy of Sciences, Head of the Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, CAS
Viktor Koksharov, Rector, Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russian Federation B.N.Yeltsin (Russia).
Nuraly Bekturganov, First Vice President of the Kazakhstan National Academy of Natural Sciences
Wang Zhong Pan, Director General, Kazakhstan branch, Sinohydro Corporation Limited
Farida Akiyanova, Director, Branch of Geography Institute in Astana
Arasha Bolaev, Senior Consultant Analyst for infrastructure projects, Non-profit Partnership “Association of Professional Hydrotechnicians” (Russia)
Damir Ryskulov, member of International Informatization Academy, author of project “Trans-Asian Corridor of Development”
Akhmetkal Medeu, Director, Institute of Geography of the Republic of Kazakhstan

12:15pm

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