ISLAMABAD: Tajikistan has invited Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to visit Dushanbe in the second week of June to attend an international conference on implementation of the International Decade for Action on Water For Life 2005-2015.

The conference to be attended also by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and many other international leaders would be held on June 9-11 in Dushanbe, Tajikistan.

Sherali S. Jononov, Tajikistan’s ambassador in Islamabad, told journalists that the main goal of the conference was to promote efforts to fulfil international commitments made on water and water-related issues by the year 2015. These commitments included the development goals contained in the United Nations Millennium Declaration, particularly to halve the proportion of people without access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation.

Published in Dawn, May 25th, 2015

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