Click here to download transcipt in pdf format. Statement as Delivered by Ms. Noeleen Heyzer, United Nations Under-Secretary-General, Executive Secretary of ESCAP, and Coordinator of the UN Regional Commissions to the High Level Panel on Post-2015 Development Monday, 25 March 2013 Bali, Indonesia. Distinguished Members of the High Level Panel, Ladies and [...]
The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will hold the Conference on Sustainable Development in Latin America and the Caribbean: Follow-up to the development agenda beyond 2015 and Rio+20 in the Monserrate Conference Room of the Crowne Plaza Tequendama Hotel in Bógota, Colombia on 7-9 of March 2013. The meeting will focus [...]
The 69th session of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific will be held at the United Nations Conference Centre in Bangkok from 25 April to 1 May 2013. The Commission session will be comprised of two parts: the senior officials segment, from 25 to 27 April 2013; and the ministerial segment, [...]
Rio + 20 side-event The President of Indonesia, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Prime Minister of Lebanon, Najib Azmi Mikati, deputy prime minister of Moldova, Iurie Leanca, joined close to 300 high-ranking officials and other participants at a side event organised by the regional commissions. Click for Brochure
The Committee for Programme Coordination The CPC sat for its 55th session in New York from 4 June to 29 June. The CPC is the main subsidiary organ of the Economic and Social Council and the General Assembly for planning, programming and coordination. It scrutinised, and approved the programme plans for all regional commissions [...]
The second round of the Innovation Prize for Africa (IPA), which aims to reward innovation across Africa in key sectors of interest, was launched today at a press conference organized by the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA). Addressing journalists, Ms. Aida Opoku-Mensah, Director of the ICT, Science and Technology Division (ISTD) of the ECA said,“Our [...]
