Parallel and side event
22 April 2008, 13:00 - 15:00,
State Banquet Hall,

Delivering on development: the role of UNCTAD

Lunch for heads of State, Government and delegations (By invitation only)
Keynote speake: H.E. Mrs. Tarja Halonen, President, Republic of Finland

Key Issues

  • How the new global economic realities affect UNCTAD's development role, and how UNCTAD can strengthen that role at the global and national levels.
  • How the three pillars of UNCTAD's work - research and analysis, intergovernmental consensus-building, and technical cooperation - can build upon one another in order to enhance UNCTAD's impact at the country level while also enhancing the role of the United Nations more generally.

Purpose:

To provide a setting for informal reflections in advance of the round tables on conference subtheme 4, "Strengthening UNCTAD: enhancing its development role, impact and institutional effectiveness".

Expected outcome/deliverables:

Opportunity for participants to hear what a high-level keynote speaker and former member of the UNCTAD Secretary-General's Panel of Eminent Persons has to say about how UNCTAD can deliver on its development role.


Contact:

Office of the Secretary-General
Ms. Erica Meltzer
E-mail: erica.meltzerunctad.org

     
 
     
 
     
 
     
 

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