KHOROG, April 16, Asia-Plus  -- Internal symposium formally titled “Climate Change: Past, Present, Future” will be held in August this year in Tashkent-Khorog-Dushanbe, Academician Oghonazar Aqnazarov, Director of the Pamirs Biology Institute, told journalists in Khorog on April 15.   

According to him, the symposium is dedicated to the 80th anniversary of joint Soviet-German Geological-Geographical Expedition.  “It was the Soviet-German Geological-Geographical Expedition that made a geological-geographical map of Central Asia based on exploration of the Pamirs-Alay and Tyan-Shan mountain systems,” the academician said. 

The symposium is staged the Tajik Academy of Sciences in cooperation the Embassies of German and Uzbekistan in Dushanbe and two German universities. 

“The event will be launched on August 16 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan and after that, its participants will go to GBAO’s Murgab district via the city of Osh, Kyrgyzstan,” said Mr. Aqnazarov.  “In Murgab, they will study the climate conditions in the area of the Lake Qarakul and they then continue their work in Khorog.”  The symposium will conclude its work in Dushanbe.