Kyrgyzstan withdraws its environmental checkpoints

Kyrgyzstan suspends the activities of its environmental checkpoints. A corresponding decree has been signed by Temirbek Akmataliyev, minister of environment and emergencies of Kyrgyz Republic.

KZ-today correspondent has been advised in the department for environment and nature use, MEE of KR, the decree comes into effect as from June 20, 2004. The document has been issued in order to attract bigger numbers of tourists from Kazakhstan to Issyk-Kul oblast.

The same decree orders environmentalists of the republic to elaborate a mechanism of control over the content of harmful substances in the car exhausts together with the department of state road inspection, MIA of KR, and the state customs inspection, Ministry of Finance of Kyrgyzstan.

Stationary environmental checkpoints were introduced by order of the government of KR as of September 1998. According to the last year results the republic earned more than 5 million soms ($114 thousand) from 20 environmental checkpoints.