The Council of the Heads of the IFAS Founding States on the Problems of the Aral Sea Basin is the supreme body of IFAS.
The Council of the Heads of State develops and recommends a policy to bring the production forces of the region in line with its natural resource potential, recommends for approval interstate legal and
regulatory acts, principles common to all states of the region for the management, use and protection of water resources, regulates interstate relations in the field of water management and
environmental activities.
Meetings of the Council of the Heads of State of the founders of IFAS (IFAS Summits) are held once during the chairmanship of each of the founding states of the Fund and within their framework decisions are made on the most important issues of the regional agenda in the field of water resources, environmental protection and improvement of th socio-economic situation in the Aral Sea basin. seas.
The IFAS summits also provide the countries of Central Asia with a unique platform for regular political dialogue at the highest level on water management and environmental issues and thus unite joint efforts
for further prosperity and sustainable development in the region.
During the activity of IFAS, 11 meetings of the Heads of the Founding States of IFAS were held:
Meeting of the Council of the Heads of State – founders of IFAS, 5 September 1995, Nukus city, Republic of Uzbekistan
Meeting of the Council of the Heads of States – Founders of IFAS, 28 September1997, Almaty, Republic of Kazakhstan
Meeting of the Council of the Heads of State – the Founders of IFAS, 9 April 1999, Ashgabat, Turkmenistan
Meeting of the Council of the Heads of States – Founders of IFAS, 28 December 2001, Tashkent, Republic of Uzbekistan
Meeting of the Council of the Heads of State – Founders of IFAS, 6 October 2002, Dushanbe, Republic of Tajikistan
Meeting of the Council of the Heads of States – Founders of IFAS, 28 April 2009, Almaty, Republic of Kazakhstan
Meeting of the Council of the Heads of States – Founders of IFAS, 28 April 2009, Almaty, Republic of Kazakhstan
Meeting of the Heads of States – Founders of IFAS, 24 August 2018, Turkmenbashi, Turkmenistan
Meeting of the Council of the Heads of State – Founders of IFAS, 14-15 September 2023, Dushanbe, Republic of Tajikistan