Minister of Planning and Economic Development Hala al-Saeed said the UN Climate Change Conference 2022 (COP27), to be hosted by Egypt in November, gives a top priority to water issues. Saeed’s remarks came during a speech that she delivered on Friday at the high-level round-table on the “United Nations Water Conference 2023” that was organized on the fringes of the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, according to a statement released by the Planning Ministry. The event was attended by the Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, Tajikistan’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Sirojiddin Muhriddin and Deputy Secretary General of the United Nations Amina Mohamed. During her speech, the minister stressed the issue of water is closely related to the three pillars of sustainable development. The minister stressed that Egypt attaches great importance to the United Nations Water Conference for 2023, which will be the first United Nations conference on water since 1977, lauding the comprehensive approach and the consultative process executed by the Netherlands and Tajikistan, co-hosts of the United Nations Water Conference 2023, in cooperation with the United Nations Secretariat.
