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Press
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29 May 2003
Information Note: N/13/2003
First Ever Regional Report Assessing the
Progress of the Millennium Development Goals to be launched,
4 June at UN Conference Centre, Bangkok
BANGKOK (United Nations Information Services)
- The first United Nations report assessing the Asia and Pacific
region's progress towards achieving the 2015 targets of the
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) will be released at a press
conference on Wednesday, 4 June 2003 from 10:00 am to noon at
the UN Conference Centre in Bangkok.
Over recent decades the countries of the region
have achieved "one of the largest decreases in mass poverty
in human history". This is one of the conclusions of the
new report from a team of international experts assembled by
the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and
the Pacific (UNESCAP).
The ESCAP-UNDP Report will be presented to the
media by Mr. Kim Hak-Su, Executive Secretary of UNESCAP, and
Mr. Robert England, UN Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident
Representative.
The Report entitled "Promoting the Millennium
Development Goals in Asia and the Pacific: Meeting the challenges
of poverty reduction" was jointly published by UNESCAP
and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The UNESCAP-UNDP
Report serves as a 'wake-up call' to region's governments, many
of whom will not be able to fulfill their commitment to achieve
several of the MDGs targets at the current rate of progress.
The Millennium Declaration which led to the formulation
of the MDGs was adopted by world leaders at the United Nations
General Assembly in September 2000. They committed themselves
to reach specific targets by 2015 in the areas of poverty, education,
gender equality, child mortality, maternal health, HIV/AIDS,
environment and development cooperation.
You or your representative are cordially invited
to attend the press conference to launch the Report on Promoting
Millennium Development Goals in Asia and the Pacific on Wednesday,
4 June 2003 at 10am to noon in Conference Room 4, 1st Floor,
United Nations Conference Center (UNCC), Rajdamnern Nok Avenue,
Bangkok.
For more information on the Report, please contact
Mr. Aynul Hasan, Chief, LDC Coordination Unit/Poverty Centre,
Office of the Executive Secretary, UNESCAP, United Nations Building,
Rajadamnern Nok Avenue, Bangkok 10200, Thailand, Tel: (66) 02
288 1636, Fax: (66) 02 288 1090, E-mail: hasan.unescap@un.org
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