DUSHANBE, November 28, 2008, Asia-Plus — President Emomali Rahmon has left Tehran for Doha, Qatar where he will attend the Follow-up International Conference on Financing for Development to Review the Implementation of the Monterey Consensus scheduled for November 29-Decmeber 2.
The conference aims to assess progress made, reaffirm goals and commitments, share best practices and lessons learned and identify obstacles and constraints encountered, actions and initiatives to overcome them and important measures for further implementation, as well as new challenges and emerging issues.
The Monterrey Consensus was the outcome of the 2002 Monterey Conference, the UN International Conference on Financing for Development. It was adopted by Heads of State and Government on March 22, 2002. Over fifty Heads of State and two hundred Ministers of Finance, Foreign Affairs, Development and Trade participated in the event. Governments were joined by the Heads of the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank and the World Trade Organization (WTO), prominent business and civil society leaders and other stakeholders. New development aid commitments from the United States and the European Union and other countries were made at the conference. Countries also reached agreements on other issues, including debt relief, fighting corruption, and policy coherence.
On Saturday, President Rahmon will hold talks with the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and the UNDP Administrator Kemal Dervish in Doha, the MFA information department head Davlat Nazriyev said.
On Sunday, President Rahmon will meet with Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani and hold talks with Prime Minister also Foreign Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber al-Thani and Finance Minister Youssef Hussein Kamal, the MFA spokesman said.
“The same day, President Rahmon will leave for Sana’a, Yemen for an official visit. In Sana’a, President Rahmon will hold talks with high-ranking Yemeni state officials to discuss cooperation issues and hold meeting with Tajik specialists working in Yemen,” Nazriyev said.
