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Sixty
First Commission Session: 12-18 May 2005
Bangkok, Thailand |
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Final Report from 61st
Commission Session (Posted 8 September, 2005)
(English,
Chinese,
French,
Russian)
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Sixty-First session of the Economic and Social Commission
for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) is scheduled to be
held at United Nations Conference Centre (UNCC) in
Bangkok, Thailand, from 12 to 18 May 2005.
In view of the recent tsunami disaster, a special
High-level Panel on Tsunami Recovery Development will
be held in the morning of Monday, 16 May 2005 from
1015-1215 hours to discuss re-construction and recovery
efforts in the affected regions. |
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The session is structured in
two segments and scheduled as follows :
I. Senior officials' segment (l2-14 May) |
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Opening
ceremonies
Meetings of the Committees of
the Whole I, II and III
Meetings of the Working Group
on Draft Resolutions
Special meetings/events:
Informal consultation with Pacific Island Developing
Countries
Informal consultation on Economies in Transition
Second meeting of Business Advisory Council
Asia-Pacific Business Forum (13-15 May) |
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segment (16-18 May) |
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Opening
of the ministerial segment
Policy issues for the ESCAP region (Country statements)
Final plenary meeting (Adoption of the draft report
of the commission)
Special meetings/events:
High-level Panel on Tsunami Recovery Development
Ministerial
Roundtable on FfD
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Special Body on Least Developed and Landlocked Developing Countries
The Special Body on Least Developed and Landlocked Developing Countries discusses and makes recommendations to the Commission on selected issues of importance to the least developed and landlocked developing countries.
During its seventh session, scheduled to be held in Bangkok just before the commission session, on 10 and 11 May 2005, the Special Body will consider (a) trade, debt relief and aid for the achievement of Millennium Development Goals and (b) information, communication and space technology for meeting development challenges. The Special Body will also review the activities of the Commission in the least developed and landlocked developing countries during the biennium 2004-2005. The report of this Special Body is expected to highlight the concerns of the least developed and landlocked developing countries in light of the United Nations Millennium +5 Summit which will be held in New York in September 2005.
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Implementing the Monterrey Consensus in the Asian and Pacific Region: Achieving Coherence and Consistency