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Third Regional Implementation Meeting on Sustainable Development

 

IN-SESSION DOCUMENTS
OPENING En Fr Ru
Key note addresses by:      
Mr. Marek Belka, Executive Secretary of the UNECE    
Mr. Ilan Fluss, Counsellor of the Mission of Israel to the United Nations in New York to deliver a key-note address on behalf of
Mr. Daniel Carmon, Deputy Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations in New York, the Vice-Chair of the 16 th session of the Commission on Sustainable Development for the Western European and Others Group 		   
AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT En Fr Ru
Key note addresses by:      

Ms. Colien Hefferan (United States), Administrator of Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service of the Department of Agriculture

    

Mr. Leonard Mizzi, Directorate General Agriculture, European Commission

    

Mr. Volker Sasse, Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations Sub-Regional Office for Central and Eastern Europe

    

Ms. Elisabeth Gauffin (Sweden), Vice President of the IFAP Development Cooperation Committee & Chair of the Swedish Farmers' Federation

    
Questions for the discussion    
Interventions from the floor and prepared statements:      
EU Presidency    
Agenda 21 for Baltic Region    
Government of the Czech Republic    
International Fertilizer Industry Association    
Government of Belgium    
Netherlands Women’s Council    
International Partners for Sustainable Agriculture    
LAND MANAGEMENT En Fr Ru
Key note addresses by:      

Mr. Marek Bryx (Poland), Head of Warsaw UN-HABITAT Office on behalf of the Ministry of Infrastructure

    

Mr. Makhmudzhon Khabirov (Tajikistan), Deputy Director of the Agency for Land Management, Geodesy and Cartography

  

Mr. Rune Fjellheim (Denmark), Executive Secretary of the Arctic Council - the Indigenous Peoples' Secretariat

    
Questions for the discussion    
Interventions from the floor and prepared statements:      
EU Presidency    
The Northern Alliance for Sustainability    
Women Organizing for Change in Agriculture and Natural Resources and Management    
DESERTIFICATION AND DROUGHT En Fr Ru
Key note addresses by:      

Mr. Paolo Soprano (Italy), Directorate General for Development and Environmental Research of the Ministry for the Environment, Land and Sea

    

Mr. Bakhtioyr Kadyrov (Uzbekistan), Director of the Center of the Hydrometeorological Service

    

Mr. Leopoldo Rojo Serrano (Spain), Chief of Service of the Ministry of Environment

    

Mr. Arvid Solheim (Norway), Director of the Development Fund

    
Questions for the discussion    
Interventions from the floor and prepared statements:      
The OSCE concept paper on Dialogue on establishing a Drought Management Centre in Central Asia in the Context of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification    
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification    
EU Presidency    
Union for the Defence of the Aral Sea and Amudarya  
Government of Turkey    
International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movement    
Heifer International    
World Meteorological Organization    
Government of Switzerland    
Government of France    
Government of Spain    
Major Group on Children and Youth    
AFRICA En Fr Ru
Key note addresses by:      

Mr. Josué Dioné, Director of the Food Security & Sustainable Development Division of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa

    

Mr. Jiri Hlavacek (Czech Republic), Director of Department of the Ministry of Environment

    

Ms. Marta Hirpa, Director of the Gender Equity Programme of Heifer International

    
Questions for the discussion    
Interventions from the floor and prepared statements:      
EU Presidency    
Government of Switzerland    
International Federation of Agricultural Producers  
CROSS-CUTTING ISSUES En Fr Ru
Key note addresses by:      

Ms. Nadine GOUZEE (Belgium), Task Force Sustainable Development of the Federal Planning Bureau

    

Ms. Brigita Schmögnerová, Vice President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

    

Mr. Lucien Royer (France), Senior Policy Advisor of International Trade Unions Confederation & Trade Union Advisory Council to the OECD

    
Questions for the discussion    
Interventions from the floor and prepared statements:      
EU Presidency    
Government of Finland    
The Northern Alliance for Sustainability    
International Partners for Sustainable Agriculture    
Government of France    
Government of Turkey    
Government of Norway    
Netherlands Women's Council