The Deputy Secretary-General will travel to Central Asia from 5-12 June 2022 to represent the Secretary-General at the Second International High-Level Conference on the International Decade for Action “Water for Sustainable Development”, 2018-2028 in Tajikistan (7-8) and following the invitation from other countries in the region, the Deputy Secretary-General will also visit Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.
During her visit across the countries she will engage firsthand with national authorities, UN staff and other partners – including youth and women representatives, civil society organisations - on how these counties are dealing with the three dimensional crisis affecting food, energy and finance and efforts towards rescuing the Sustainable Development Goals and leaving no one behind.
In Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, the Deputy Secretary-General will also participate in the signing ceremony of the first United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation. Frameworks developed as part of the repositioning of the UN development system.
