13⁰⁰ – 13⁰⁵

Commencement ceremony:

Mr. Szollosi-Nagy, Deputy to the General Director, the Secretary of the World Hydrological Program, UNESCO

Mr. Oda Hideaki, the General Secretary of the Japan Water Forum  

13⁰⁵ – 13⁵⁵

Panel Discussion:

• “Problems and Solutions of the Aral Sea Basin”, Mr. Sulton Rahimov, Acting Chairman, Executive Committee of IFAS;

• “From the International Year of Fresh Water to the International Decade for Action «Water for life» as the initiative of the President of the Republic of Tajikistan, President of IFAS His Excellency E. Sh. Rakhmonov”, Mr. Sirojidin Aslov, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Tajikistan to the United Nations;

• "Regional cooperation in the field of sustainable development of CA”,  Mr. Eeberdiev B., Deputy to Chairman of ICSD; 

• “The UNDP Shared Waters Initiative”, Mr. Tim Hannan, Coordinator, SWBM, UNDP;

• “The Role of ICWC in Regional Water Cooperation in the Aral Sea Basin”, Mr. Abduqohir Nazirov, Member of ICWC, Minister of Irrigation and Water Economy of Tajikistan;

• “Outcomes of the Dushanbe International Conference on Regional Cooperation in Transboundary River Basins”, Mr. Reza Ardakanian, Director of RCUWM-Tehran (under auspices of UNESCO);

• “The ways of solutions of the Aral Sea Basin problems in the Kazakhstan part”, Mr. Anatoly Ryabtsev, Chairman, Water Committee of Ministry of Agriculture of Kazakhstan;

• “Activities of the RCH and Information Exchange for Improving the Hydrometeorological Service in Central Asia”, Mr. Mahmad Safarov, Executive Director, Regional Center of Hydrology (RCH), Deputy Director, Agency on Hydrometeorology of the State Committee on Environment Protection and Forestry of the Republic of Tajikistan;

• “Water Ecosystems as a Solution of Ecological, Socio-Economic and Water Economic Problems”, Mr. Bulat Esekin, Executive Director, Central Asia Regional Ecological Center (CAREC);

• Speech by Representative of IWMI, Dr. Charlotte De Fraiture, Head, Global Change, Health and Environment.

13⁵⁵ – 14¹⁰

Presentation of ASBP-2, Mr. Almabek Nurushev, Mr. Mavlon Kazakov, Members of the Executive Committee of IFAS

Presentation of the book “Regional Cooperation in Transboundary River Basins”, Mr. Khayrullo Ibodzoda, Member of the Executive Committee of IFAS, Mr. Anatoly Kholmatov, Member of the Organizing Committee of the Dushanbe International Conference, Technical Director of EC IFAS.

14¹⁰ – 14³⁰

Discussion and conclusions of the Aral Sea Special Event.