DUSHANBE, March 25, 2013, Asia-Plus – Tajik Prime Minister Oqil Oqilov met with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon I New York on March 22.

According to the Permanent Mission of Tajikistan to the United Nations, the UN Secretary-General thanked Tajik Prime Minister for his country’s lead role in the designation of 2013 as the International Year of Water Cooperation.

They reportedly also discussed High-Level Interactive Dialogue of the General Assembly on Water Cooperation and the upcoming High-Level Conference on Water Cooperation that will be hosted by Tajikistan in August 2013.

In addition, they considered some other issues, including the Roghun hydropower station and disaster response and risk reduction in Central Asia, the source said.