DUSHANBE, July 20, 2013, Asia-Plus – Tajik Ambassador to Kuwait Zubaydullo Zubaydov on July 18 met in Kuwait City with Mustafa Jassem Al-Shamali, the Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Finance and Acting Oil Minister for the Government of Kuwait also the Chairman of the Board of the Kuwait Investment Authority (KIA).
In the course of the talks, Mustafa Jassem Al-Shamali, who is also co-chairman of Tajikistan-Kuwait intergovernmental commission for trade and economic cooperation, expressed satisfaction with the results of recent visit of Tajik President Emomali Rahmon to Kuwait and expressed his readiness to participate in joint measures to promote implementation of agreements reached during Tajik president’s visit to Kuwait, the Tajik MFA information department said.
Noting that the water issues are a topical problem for Kuwait, the Deputy Prime Minister of Kuwait stressed that his country highly appraised Tajikistan’s initiatives on the water problems and noted that a high-ranking delegation of Kuwait would participate in a high-level international conference on water cooperation that would take place in Dushanbe next month.
The Conference that is scheduled for August 20-21 aims to spur water cooperation, in particular at trans-boundary level, through the promotion of successful policies and best practices, wider public participation, and the encouragement of policy makers to support water cooperation at all levels to achieve internationally agreed goals on water. The Conference also gives an opportunity to discuss and develop new measures to accelerate the efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and recommendations for further actions after 2015, including contribution to the development of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) related to water.
