Text of report by Uzbek privately-owned newspaper Biznes-Vestnik Vostoka on 2 October Uzbek Foreign Minister Vladimir Norov has made a speech at a round table meeting dedicated to the UN millennium development goals at the UN headquarters in New York.

Excerpt from report by founded by Uzbekistan's Cabinet of Ministers, Uzbek newspaper Pravda Vostoka on 26 July All water resources of the Central Asian rivers are distributed within "the plan on use of water resources in the Syr Darya and Amu Darya rivers' basins ", which is agreed by all countries of the region.

Excerpt from report by Russian state news agency ITAR-TASS Asgabat, 27 June: In 2009 Turkmenistan will transport natural gas from the right bank of the Amu Darya [river] to China via Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, the president of Turkmenistan, Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow, said in his welcoming message today to participants in the construction of a gas processing facility at the Samandepe field [in eastern Turkmenistan].

Excerpt from report by privately-owned Tajik Avesta website on 30 May Dushanbe, 30 May: Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan have held a seminar at the UN headquarters in New- York to call on the international community to pay attention to the serious ecological crisis in the Aral Sea basin and help them to solve this problem.

There is noticeable disagreement about the use of water between countries upstream and downstream the rivers of Amu Darya and Syr Darya, a Tajik journalist Maruf Boborajab says.