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UN chief in Tajikistan to attend int'l water conference

Xinhua, June 9, 2015 Adjust font size:

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived here on Tuesday to attend a high-level conference on the mid-term review of the implementation of the "Water for Life" Decade.

The United Nations General Assembly, in December 2003, proclaimed the years from 2005 to 2015 as the International Decade for Action "Water for Life", with the primary goal to promote efforts to fulfill international commitments made on water and water-related issues.

During Ban's stay in Dushanbe, the capital city of Tajikistan, the UN chief is expected to hold talks with Tajik President Emomali Rahmon and to visit Sarez Lake in east Tajikistan, which is the Central Asian country's natural wonder containing 17 billion cubic meters of one of the region's scarcest commodities -- water.

According to the Tajik Foreign Ministry, the UN chief was welcomed by the Foreign Minister Sirojiddin Aslov at the Dushanbe International Airport. Endi