Events At A Glance

This is a calendar of events taking place during the 58th Commission session of the UN Economic and Social Commission Asia and the Pacific (UN ESCAP) at the United Nations Conference Centre (UNCC) in Bangkok from 16-22 May 2002. For further information: UNIS, Second Floor (Block B) of UN Building (Room 251), Tel: 02 288 1861-9 Email: unisbkk.unescap@un.org or Press Suite on the Ground Floor of the UNCC. Or visit our website: www.unescap.org/58/index.htm

I. Senior Official Segment:

Thursday, 16 May 2002

09:00 - 10:00 hrs.

Opening of the Senior Officials' Segment of the Commission Session by Mr. Kim Hak-Su, Executive Secretary of ESCAP. (ESCAP Hall)

10:00 - 17:00 hrs.

Three Committees of the Whole meet throughout the day. They are:

Committee of the Whole I on Management issues and Programme Planning, Committee of the Whole II on Regional Economic Cooperation, Statistics, Transport, Communications, Tourism and Infrastructure Development; Committee of the Whole III on Environment and Natural Resources Development, Socio-economic Measures to Alleviate Poverty in Rural and Urban Areas and Least Developed, Landlocked and Island Developing Countries.

Friday, 17 May 2002

09:00 - 12:00 hrs.

Informal consultations on Least developed and land-locked developing countries and on economies in transition.

11:00 - 17:00 hrs.

The three Committees of the Whole continue to meet all day.

II. Ministerial Segment (20-22 May 2002):

Monday, 20 May 2002

09:00- 10:30 hrs.

Opening session of the Ministerial Segment of ESCAP's 58th Commission session by H.E. Mr. Thaksin Shinawatra, Prime Minister of the Royal Thai Government.

Approx 09:30 hrs.

H.E. the Prime Minister opens the exhibition "Dangerous Liaisons: HIV/AIDS,
drugs and human trafficking in a globalizing world".

10:00 - 17:00 hrs.

Policy issues for the ESCAP region to be addressed by Ministers from the ESCAP region on:

(a) Implications of recent economic and social development;
(b) Sustainable social development in a period of rapid globalization: challenges, opportunities and policy option;
(c) Regional preparations for the World Summit on Sustainable Development.

17:00 - 17:30 hrs.

ESCAP Hall: 2001 ESCAP Human Resources Development Award -- "Empowering the Rural Poor through HRD" will be presented by ESCAP's Executive Secretary Kim Hak-Su to the winner -- The Participatory Development Training Center, based in Vientiane, Lao People's Democratic Republic.

Tuesday, 21 May 2002

09:00 - 12:00 hrs.

Ministerial Roundtable on the ESCAP Reform (closed meeting).

12:00 -- 12:30 hrs.

Press Conference by Mr. Kim Hak-Su, Executive Secretary of ESCAP on the outcome of the Ministerial Roundtable at the Executive Suite, 2nd Fl., UNCC

14:00 - 17:00 hrs.

Policy issues delivered all day.

Wednesday, 22 May 2002

14:00 - 17:00 hrs.

Adoption of the Report of the Commission.

Note to editors: Possibility for one-on-one interviews with the Chairman of the 58th Session and Mr. Kim Hak-Su, Executive Secretary of ESCAP upon request to UNIS by Tuesday, 21 May 2002

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