DUSHANBE, March 19, 2010, Asia-Plus  -- Tajik Prime Minister Oqil Oqilov will depart for New York on March 20 to attend a High-Level Dialogue on Water, according to presidential press service said, noting that Minister of Economic Development and Trade Farrukh Hamraliyev will accompany him.

The High-Level Interactive Dialogue (HLID), of the sixty-fourth session of the General Assembly in New York, will be convened to on March 22 mark World Water Day and discuss the implementation of the International Decade for Action "Water for Life."  The high-level dialogue will be built around three themes: “Water and Millennium Development Goals,” “Water, Climate Change and Disasters,” and “Water and Peace and Security.”

This high-level dialogue will provide an important input to the preparatory process of the High-Level Plenary Meeting of the General Assembly, to be held on September 20-22, 2010 in New York.  It will also contribute to the High-Level International Conference to be hosted by Tajikistan in June 2010.

We will recall that by its resolution 58/217, the General Assembly proclaimed 2005-2015 as the International Decade for Action “Water for Life”, to commence on March 22, 2005.  The primary goal of the International Decade for Action “Water for Life” is to promote efforts to fulfill international commitments made on water and water-related issues by 2015.