However, the Strategy stalled on political disagreement over references to 'occupied territories'. Once this issue is resolved, the draft Strategy is ready to be adopted and a plan to translate the Strategy into action can be developed.
Adoption of Strategy waits for political resolution
With the technical and administrative support of GWP Mediterranean in the framework of MED-EUWI, the Water Expert Group of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) put the draft Strategy for Water in the Mediterranean before the UfM Ministerial Conference on Water in April 2010.