On March 21, 2022, in Senegal the Tajik delegation headed by the Minister of Energy and Water Resources Daler Juma and Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Sharaf Sheralizoda has met with the Minister of the Environment of the French Republic Barbara Pompili.
The ministers discussed the results of the official visit of the Founder of Peace and National Unity - the Leader of the Nation, the President of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon to France (November 14, 2021), the implementation of the agreements reached between the leaders of the two countries, as well as the expansion of cooperation in areas of mutual interest.
The parties considered the possibilities of establishing bilateral and multilateral cooperation within the framework of international initiatives of Tajikistan and France and the Second High-Level International Conference on the International Decade for Action "Water for Sustainable Development, 2018-2028" and in this context noted the importance of the UN Conference on the mid-term review of the implementation of the water decade, which will be held on March 22-24, 2023 in New York under the chairmanship of the Republic of Tajikistan and the Kingdom of the Netherlands.