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Which Central Asian countries created a joint committee to help save the Aral Sea in 1994?

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In 1994, five Central Asian states established a joint committee to coordinate efforts to save the Aral Sea. These countries were:

Kazakhstan
Turkmenistan
Uzbekistan
Kyrgyzstan
Tajikistan1

While these nations sought to address the environmental crisis caused by the diversion of the Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers, progress was significantly hampered by the difficulty of coordinating plans between the competing states.1