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Statement by Mr. Luk Kar Kin, Bruno, Director, Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in Singapore, Hong Kong, China
Statement by Mr. TAI Kin Ip, Director of the Macao Economic Bureau, Macao, China
Opening of the Senior Officials Segment, 11 May 2018
Opening Statement by Ms. Shamshad Akhtar, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Secretary of ESCAP
Opening of the Ministerial Segment, 14 May 2018
H.E. Ms. Hilda Heine, President of the Marshall Islands
H.E. Mr. Miroslav Lajčák, President of the 72nd session of the United Nations General Assembly
Ms. Shamshad Akhtar, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Secretary of ESCAP
H.E. Mr. Don Pramudwinai, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Thailand
H.E. Mr. Taneti Maamau, President and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Immigration of Kiribati
Mrs. Carrie Lam, Chief Executive of Hong Kong, China
Item 9: Policy issues for the Asia-Pacific region: theme topic for the seventy-fourth session of the Commission on "Inequality in the era of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development"
14 May 2018
Keynote statements
Ms. Shamshad Akhtar, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Secretary of ESCAP
Mr. Lucas Chancel, Co-director of the World Inequality Lab, Paris School of Economics (presentation)
Professor Armida Alisjahbana, Director of the SDGs Center, Padjadjaran University, and former Minister for National Development Planning, Indonesia (presentation)
Country statements
Honourable Fiame Naomi Mataafa, Deputy Prime Minister of Samoa
Mr. Saleumxay Kommasith, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Lao People’s Democratic Republic
H.E. Mr. Faiyaz Siddiq Koya, Minister for Industry, Trade and Tourism, Fiji
Honourable Ralph Regenvanu, Minister for Foreign Affairs, International Cooperation and External Trade, Vanuatu
Prof. Mr. Puspa Raj Kadel, Vice Chair of National Planning Commission, Nepal
Hon. Milton Ross Dube, Member of Parliament, Nauru
H.E. Mr. M.A. Mannan, Honourable State Minister of Finance, Bangladesh
H.E. Mr. Kazuyuki Nakane, State Minister for Foreign Affairs, Japan
H.E. Mr. Mustafa Mastoor, Minister of Economy, Afghanistan
H.E. Ms. Rosemarie G. Edillon, Undersecretary, National Economic and Development Authority, Philippines
H.E. Mr. Mukhtar Tileuberdi, First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Kazakhstan
H.E. Mr. U Set Aung, Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Planning and Finance, Myanmar
H.E. Mr. Sonam Tshong, Foreign Secretary, Bhutan
Ms. Kanchana Patarachoke, Director-General and Permanent Representative, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Thailand
H.E. Mrs. Kshenuka Senewiratne, Ambassador and Permanent Representative, Sri Lanka
H.E. Mun Song Mo, Ambassador and Permanent Representative, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
15 May 2018, Morning
Keynote statements
Ms. Nino Zambakhidze, Head, Georgian Farmers Association
Mr. Alexander Malaket, President, OPUS Advisory Services International (presentation)
Country statements
H.E. Mrs. Hilda C. Heine, President, Marshall Islands
Honourable Poasi Mataele Tei, Minister for Meteorology, Energy, Information, Disaster Management, Environment, Climate Change, and Communications, Tonga
H.E. Mr. Batyr Bazarov, Minister of Finance and Economy, Turkmenistan
H.E. Mr. Yoon Kang-hyun, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Korea
H.E. Mr. Zhang Jun, Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs, China
H.E. Mr. Ha Kim Ngoc, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Viet Nam
Mr. Eddy Satriya, Assistant Deputy Minister for ICT and Utilities, Coordinating Ministry for Economic Affairs, Indonesia
H.E. Mrs. Chua Siew San, Ambassador, Singapore (updated 16 May 2018 10:37)
H.E. Ms. Evren Dagdelen Akgun, Ambassador and Permanent Representative, Turkey
H.E. Mr. Tumurkhuleg Tugsbilguun, Ambassador and Permanent Representative, Mongolia
H.E. Mr. Bhagwant Singh Bishnoi, Ambassador and Permanent Representative, India
H.E. Mr. Kirill Barsky, Ambassador and Permanent Representative, Russian Federation
Mr. Meas Bora, Deputy Secretary General of the National Committee for ESCAP, Cambodia
Ms. Courtney Nemroff, Permanent Representative, United States of America
Ms. Octavia Borthwick, Permanent Representative, Australia
Mr. Surrendren Sathasivam, Deputy Director, Prime Minister’s Department, Malaysia
Ms. Mami Mizutori, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction
Мr. Vladimir Potapenko, Deputy Secretary-Gеnеrаl, Shanghai Cooperation Organization
H.E. Mr. Sartaj Aziz, Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission, Pakistan
Ambassador Fauzia Nasreen, Advisor (SDGs), Commission on Science and Technology for Sustainable Development in the South (COMSATS) Secretariat
15 May 2018, Afternoon
Keynote statements
Ms. Shamshad Akhtar, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Secretary of ESCAP
H.E. Mr. Han Seung-soo, Special Envoy of the United Nations Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction and Water, former President of the fifty-sixth session of the United Nations General Assembly and former Prime Minister of the Republic of Korea
Mr. Yaga Venugopal Reddy, former Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, and the Chairman of the Fourteenth Finance Commission
H.E. Mr. Zhang Jun, Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs, China
Mr. Ishrat Husain, Professor Emeritus of the Institute of Business Administration and former Governor of the Central Bank of Pakistan
Ms. Christelle Pratt, Deputy Secretary-General of the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat
Mr. Vladimir Potapenko, Deputy Secretary-General of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization
Ambassador Karsten Warnecke, Executive Director of the Asia-Europe Foundation
Mr. Paul Blustein, Senior Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation
Country statements
Honourable Mr. Rimbink Pato, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Papua New Guinea
H.E. Mr. M.A. Mannan, Honourable State Minister of Finance, Bangladesh
H.E. Mr. Ha Kim Ngoc, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Viet Nam
Mr. Oleg Shamanov, Minister-Counsellor and Deputy Permanent Representative to the UNESCAP, Embassy of the Russian Federation, Bangkok
Ms. Rupa Dutta, Economic Adviser, Department of Commerce, India
Mr. Eamonn Murphy, Regional Director, UNAIDS Asia and the Pacific
16 May 2018
Keynote statements
Ms. Shamshad Akhtar, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Secretary of ESCAP
Mr. Steve Leonard, Founding Chief Executive, SG Innovate (presentation)
Mr. Arvind Gupta, Former Co-Founder and Head, Digital India Foundation - CEO MyGovIndia (presentation)
H.E. Ms. Rosemarie G. Edillon, Undersecretary, National Economic and Development Authority, Philippines(presentation)
H.E. Mr. Bambang Brodjonegoro, Minister of National Development Planning, Indonesia (presentation)
Ms. Duo Liu, President of China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (presentation) (statement in English) (statement in Chinese)
Mr. Christopher Tremewan, Secretary General, the Association of Pacific Rim Universities (presentation)
Country statements
H.E. Mr. Mohammad Bagher Nobakht Haghighi, Vice-President of the Islamic Republic of Iran and Head of Plan and Budget Organization
H.E. Ms. Saida Muna Tasneem, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary and Permanent Representative to UNESCAP, Embassy of the People's Republic of Bangladesh, Bangkok
H.E. Mr. Sergey Manasaryan, Ambassador to China and Thailand, Armenia
Mr. Li Hong, Permanent Representative of China to ESCAP
Mr. Asrul Ahmad, Director, Department of Planning, Department of Economic Planning and Development, Brunei Darussalam
Ms. Irina Burova, Attache, Assistant Permanent Representative to the UNESCAP, Embassy of the Russian Federation, Bangkok
Mr. Emil Ahmadov, Leading Advisor, Department of International Cooperation, Ministry of Transport, Communications and High Technologies of the Republic of Azerbaijan
Ambassador Fauzia Nasreen, Advisor (SDGs), Commission on Science and Technology for Sustainable Development in the South (COMSATS) Secretariat
Closing, 16 May 2018
Ms. Shamshad Akhtar, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Secretary of ESCAP
H.E. Ms. Hilda Heine, President of the Marshall Islands, and Chair of the 74th session of the Commission