Turkey to host ’09 World Water Forum
Posted by meb at March 14th, 2007
Turkey will host the Fifth World Water Forum and Ministerial Conference in Istanbul in March 2009, in cooperation with the World Water Council.
The Turkish Foreign Ministry, in a written statement yesterday, said that in accordance with the decisions taken at the UN Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, the first World Water Forum was heldin Marrakech, Morocco in 1997.
“Convening every three years, the second forum took place in the Netherlands in 2000, the third in Japan in 2003 and the fourth in Mexico in 2006. Almost 20,000 participants and 140 state ministers or high-level officials attended the fourth Forum in Mexico,” the statement underlined.
The statement said that Turkey attaches great importance to the Fifth World Water Forum and Ministerial Conference, in the context of utilizing water resources in order to achieve sustainable development.
source: The New Anatolian
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