Luanda - Angola and Tajikistan are working to sign a Memorandum of Political Consultations, the Angolan ambassador to this Asian country, Augusto Cunha said on Sunday.
According to the Angolan diplomat, the document could be signed on the sidelines of the Dushanbe Conference, where the Vice-President of the Republic, Esperança da Costa, participates, if the parties so understand, to actually begin cooperation between the two countries.
"Tajikistan was part of the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and when it disintegrated, it became an independent country. We had a cooperation agreement with the Soviet Union, signed shortly after National Independence, and with this disintegration there was a need to see each other again with Tajikistan", he highlighted.
Regarding Angolans in Tajikistan, the ambassador, who is placed in Moscow, made it known that there are no current registers, but that, in the past, there were some citizens who studied during the Soviet Union.
The diplomat said that, in Russia, there are 1,200 students.
The Dushanbe conference will unfold into three major moments.
The first foresees the holding of thematic forums by region: “African Forum on Water”, “Forum on Glaciers” and “Central Asian Forum on Water”, also foreseeing a Forum on Science and Technology, as well as on the private sector.
The second day is scheduled for the opening of the Plenary Session, whose backdrop includes the interactive dialogue focused on the implementation of the decade of water action and the results of the 2023 UN Conference on Water.
It will be supported by themes such as “Water for health: Access to Hygiene, including Human Rights to drinking water and sanitation” and “Water for sustainable development: valuing water, the water-energy-food nexus and economic and sustainable urban environment”.
The third day is reserved for the issues of “Water for climate, resilience and the environment: source for the sea, biodiversity, climate, resilience and disaster risk reduction (DRR)” and “Water for cooperation: water cooperation cross-border and international, intersectoral cooperation, including science and water cooperation, across the 2030 Agenda”.
The theme on “Decade of action in the field of water: accelerating the implementation of the decade's objectives, mainly through the UN Secretary-General's Action Plan” closes the plenary, in which Heads of State and Government, civil society and private sector. FMA/ART/CF/DOJ
