The PAU is occasionally requested to organise alone or with other institutions intergovernmental
conferences or meetings conducive to dialogues among the Governments of the UNECE
Member States on
selected population–related issues and policy challenges. The first such meeting, Regional Meeting on Population
was convened in Sofia (Bulgaria) in 1973. This Meeting was preparatory to the World Population Conference
held in Bucharest (Romania) in 1974. The second meeting, Regional Meeting on Population and Development,
was convened in Budapest (Hungary) in 1987 as a follow–up event to the International Conference on
Population held in Mexico City (Mexico) in 1984.
During the 1990s, prior to the
International Conference on Population and
Development, held in Cairo (Egypt) in 1994, the PAU co–organised along with relevant offices of the
Council of Europe and the
United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) the
European Population Conference (EPC). The event was held in Geneva in 1993.
Five years later, along with the Hungarian Central Statistical
Office and the UNFPA, the PAU co–organised the Regional Population
Meeting (RPM). It was held in Budapest in 1998 as a preparatory event for the Twenty–first Special
Session of the United Nations General Assembly on the review and appraisal of the implementation of the
ICPD Programme of Action.
During 2000–2002, the PAU prepared the
Ministerial Conference on Ageing (MiCA), which took place in Berlin in September 2002. As part of the
observance of the 10th anniversary of the International Conference of Population
and Development (Cairo, 1994), the PAU co–organised with the UNFPA, in collaboration with the Swiss
Government the European Population Forum 2004.
The PAU has also organized conferences that marked the achievements of the Population
Ageing Project and the Fertility and Family Survey Project: