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Photo Gallery - 62nd Commission Session
6 - 12 April 2006, Jakarta, Indonesia
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Indonesian Foreign Minister Hasan Wirajuda (centre left) and UNESCAP Executive Secretary Kim Hak-Su (centre right) presided over the opening of the Senior Officials’ Meeting on 6 April. With them on the podium are the Secretary to the Commission, San Yuenwah (far left) and UNESCAP Deputy Executive Secretary Shigeru Mochida (far right). Senior officials from approximately 50 UNESCAP members tackled a wide agenda that included energizing the global economy, the growing threat of regional unemployment and underemployment, and enhancing regional cooperation in infrastructure development. Officials met from 6-8 April prior to the Ministerial Meeting held from 10-12 April. [06/04/06]
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UNESCAP Executive Secretary Kim Hak-Su (centre right) and Indonesian Foreign Minister Hasan Wirajuda (centre left) accompanied by their staff reviewed UNESCAP's exhibit on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
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The first side event of the 62nd Commission Session focused on achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Asia-Pacific. Some 200 senior officials attended the event, held on 6 April, where they heard key stakeholders, including Foreign Minister H.E. Hasan Wirajuda, UNESCAP and Executive Secretary Kim Hak-Su, promote new ideas and discuss the roadmap to MDG achievement. |
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The Asia-Pacific Business Forum 2006 opened on 7 April with a Gala Dinner and Ceremony held at the Jakarta Convention Centre. Participants were treated to a cultural performance featuring many of Indonesia’s traditional dances, including the Peacock Dance pictured here. Approximately 400 of Asia-Pacific’s most prominent leaders in the public and private sectors participated in the Forum, where they discussed their ideas on how the public and private sectors could work together to ensure sustainable economic and social development in the region. [07/06/0]
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Former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad gave the inaugural address at the Asia-Pacific Business Forum’s Opening Ceremony and Gala Dinner held on 7 April. Mr. Mahathir shared his views on the importance of public-private partnerships to development with the approximately 400 businessmen and women who took part in the Forum. The event was held in Jakarta from 7-8 April concurrently with UNESCAP's 62nd Commission Session. [08/04/06]
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Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (left) and UNESCAP Executive Secretary Kim Hak-Su (right) are seen entering a dinner reception held on 8 April as a part of the Asia-Pacific Business Forum 2006. President Yudhoyono told the more than 400 participants at the Forum that the region needed more partnerships between government and the private sector in Asia-Pacific in order to speed up regional economic development. In his remarks to the gathering, Mr. Kim noted that poverty remained a key concern in the region. "Experience shows," he said, "that artful planning, an adequate political and economic framework and strategic management are needed to ensure that the benefits of development are better shared with the poorest of the region." [08/04/06]
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UNESCAP Executive Secretary Kim Hak-Su (front left, centre right) and H.E. Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (front row, centre left) are surrounded by a galaxy of heads of State and Government and Ministers in a group photo at theJoint Opening of the Ministerial Meeting and the Pacific Leaders' United Nations ESCAP Special Session (PLUS). The meeting was hosted by the Republic of Indonesia in Jakarta from 6-12 April 2006. [10/04/06]
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The Pacific Leaders' United Nations UNESCAP Special Session (PLUS), held on 10 April, aimed to provide a unique Asian and Pacific inter-governmental platform for Pacific Leaders to articulate their concerns and engage in interactive dialogue with the delegations of the other UNESCAP members, in an effort to identify ways of strengthening Pacific-Asia partnership in economic and social development. Participants included (left to right) H.E. Sato Kilman , Deputy Prime Minister of Vanuatu; H.E. Redley Killion, Vice President of Micronesia; H.E. Maatia Toafa , Prime Minister of Tuvalu; H.E. Kessai Note, President of the Marshall Islands; UNESCAP Executive Secretary Kim Hak-Su; H.E. Anote Tong, President of Kiribati; H.E. Elias Camsek Chin, Vice President of Palau (hidden); H.E. Kaliopate Tavola, Minister of Foreign Affairs and External Trade, Fiji; H.E. David Adeang, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Nauru. Out of the picture frame on the far left is H.E. Paul Tiensten, Minister for Trade and Industry, Papua New Guinea. [10/04/06]
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The centrepiece of the 62nd Commission Session was the Ministerial Roundtable on Enhancing Regional Cooperation in Infrastructure Development, including that Related to Disaster Management, held on 10 April. Among the high-profile participants in the Roundtable pictured here are (left to right) H.E. Sarath Amunugama, Minister of Public Administration and Home Affairs of Sri Lanka; UNESCAP Executive Secretary Kim Hak-Su; the Chairman of the Ministerial Roundtable, H.E. Hermogenes E. Ebdane, Jr., Secretary of the Department of Public Works and Highways, Philipines; H.E. Maatia Toafa, Prime Minister of Tuvalu; and the Minister for Foreign Affairs and External Trade of Fiji, H.E.Kaliopate Tavola. [11/04/06]
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Dr. David Nabarro, Senior UN System Coordinator on Avian and Human Influenza, was invited by UNESCAP Executive Secretary Kim Hak-Su to brief the participants on the situation regarding avian influenza in the region and steps that need to be taken to counter the threat of a global pandemic. [11/04/06]
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UNESCAP Executive Secretary Kim Hak-Su (centre), Indonesian Minister for Women Empowerment H.E. Meutia Hatta Swasono (left) and Thelma Kay, Director of UNESCAP's Emerging Social Issues Division (right), were among the high-level speakers at a side event on 12 April focusing on the gender dimension of international migration. Mr. Kim told participants at the even that "international migration, migrant women are playing increasingly important roles as financial providers and development agents." He noted that with the widening impact of migration, greater attention is being given to migration policy development. "The international community, through the United Nations system, has focused on finding solutions for migration pressures and the development gap between origin and destination countries," he said. [12/04/06]
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Following the official conclusion of the 62nd Commission Session, UNESCAP Executive Secretary Kim Hak-Su and the Chairman of the 62 nd Commission, Indonesian Foreign Minister Hasan Wirajuda, briefed the press on the outcome of the Session. The 62 nd Commission was the most widely covered Session in UNESCAP’s history, with more than 160 journalists and photographers accredited. [12/04/06]
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