Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Shamshad Akhtar, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), at its seventy-second session, in Bangkok today:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the seventy-first session of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), in Bangkok today:

Following is an introductory statement by the Secretary-General to a film highlighting the importance of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) Convention on the Transboundary Effects of Industrial Accidents, launched at the eighth Conference of the Parties, held in Geneva 3-5 December:

Following are Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the inauguration of the new office facilities at the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa compound, in Addis Ababa today:

EXECUTIVE SECRETARY OF ESCAP APPOINTS HAK-FAN LAU AS CHIEF

OF UNITED NATIONS INFORMATION SERVICES IN BANGKOK

 

ESCAP to launch Economic and Social Survey of Asia and Pacific 2004, 16 APRIL

Despite Setbacks, Region Posts 'Robust Growth'

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Regional commission organizes first asia-pacific business forum

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Success of asian highway would lead to economic integration,

 

cultural contact across vast continent

REGIONAL EFFORTS A USEFUL HALFWAY STEP ON PATH TO INTERNATIONAL AID

FOR LEAST DEVELOPED COUNTRIES, SHANGHAI ASIAN SUMMIT TOLD

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Public-Private Partnerships with poor communities best way to beat poverty,

regional commission chief says at special session of aSia-pacific event

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