The Regional Conference of Water and Education of the International Hydrological Programme (IHP) for Europe and The United States placed in the preparatory process for the World Conference of Education for the Sustainable Development (Bonn, Germany, March, 2009) and the World V Forum of the Water (Istanbul, Turkey, March, 2009).
The results of the conference represent an important contribution to the V World Water Forum (Istanbul, Turkey, March, 2009), and to the consolidation of the region??s water education programs.
And on March 26th Turkey's chief of the general staff, Hilmi Ozkok, announced that he wanted Turkish troops to enter northern Iraq only in full co-ordination with the Americans.