INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION IN ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS
"The ecological well-being of one state cannot be secured at the
expense of other states or without taking their
interests into consideration"
positive Chernobyl, CIS Belarus, Ukraine,
and Russian pledges
negative: early on Ukraine's refusal to
cooperate with CIS
problems: Belarus-Latvia over pollution of Western Dvina and Daugave River
Turkmen-Uzbek over water withdrawals from
Kara-Kum canal
scarce resource and weak political
mechanisms
divergent interests, economic competition