TEHRAN, July 2 (Xinhua) -- An international conference on sand and dust storms will kick off in Iran's capital Tehran on Monday.
Over 30 regional and overseas officials and experts will participate in Tehran International Conference on Combating Sand and Dust Storms on July 3-5.
The participants will include ministers, senior officials and experts, international resource managers as well as experts from regional and international organizations and UN entities.
"The conference will open in presence of President Hassan Rouhani and two deputies of UN Secretary General," said Yousef Rashidi, the executive secretary of the conference, according to official IRNA news agency.
Two meetings will follow the opening session at the ministerial level that will produce the final communiqué, known as Tehran communiqué, in which international and regional cooperation will be addressed.
Besides, four technical meetings will be held following the opening session.
International delegation attending the conference will visit also Iran's Ahvaz and Kashan cities located in the desert and dry geography of Iran which have been recently affected by the surge of the dust storm.
Two international events on the global phenomenon of Sand and Dust Storms (SDS) were organized in Tehran during 5-9 November 2016.
These included the Workshop on the Use of Space Technology for Dust Storm and Drought Monitoring in the Middle East region and the 5th Training Course on WMO SDS-WAS Products (Satellite and Ground Observation and Modelling of Atmosphere Dust).
