2013 – Year of International Water Cooperation
Baku, December 22 (AZERTAC). On December 20, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution - International Year of Water Cooperation, 2013 - submitted by the delegation of Tajikistan in co-authorship with delegations Afghanistan, Armenia, Australia, Bahrain, Bolivia, Chile, Costa-Rica, Gabon, Honduras, Kazakhstan, Madagascar, Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan, Russia, Thailand and Ukraine, according to the Permanent Mission of Tajikistan to the United Nations, a UN message says.
The draft resolution was worked out on the basis of the previous “water” resolutions of the UN General Assembly adopted on an initiative of Tajikistan and the Dushanbe Declaration on water resources adopted by High Level International Conference on the Mid-term Comprehensive Review of the Implementation of the International Decade for Action, "Water for Life," 2005-2015 that took place in the Tajik capital on June 8-9, 2010.
The resolution, in particular, emphasizes that water is critical for sustainable development, including environmental integrity and eradication of poverty and hunger, and is indispensable for human health and well-being, and central to achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
The resolution also expresses concern about the slow and uneven progress in achieving the goals to halve the proportion of the population without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation, while global climate change and other challenges seriously affect water quantity and quality.
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