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