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News Title:
ESCAP and Disability Decade Resolution
Date Published:
20 May 2010
Talofa All
We thank our good friend, Mr Alastair Wilkinson, Regional Adviser Social Development and Planning, UNESCAP Pacific Operation Centre based in Suva for sharing the information below with us.
Dear All,
Yesterday the ESCAP Commission passed a resolution on "regional preparations for the high-level intergovernmental meeting on the final review of the implementation of the Asian and Pacific decade of disabled persons, 2003-2012", (sponsored by the Republic of Korea, Japan and Turkey). Many Pacific island countries were represented at the meeting including the Prime Minister of Vanuatu, President of Kiribati and a few other ministers including Fiji's Minister for Foreign Affairs and the finance Minister fromTuvalu, amongst others.
The long and short of it is that the resolution is encouraging governments and DPOs to get involved in the preparatory process for the High Level Meeting which will be held in Korea in 2012. This is the meeting that confirms what happens post-Biwako!
The resolution noted in its opening sentences that Pacific Leaders had endorsed a Pacific regional disability strategy.
As I said in an earlier email the process will run as follows:
1. Expert Group Meeting-cum-Stakeholder Consultation to Review the Implementation of the Asian and Pacific Decade of Disabled Persons,
2003-2012: The Biwako Millennium Framework for Action, 23-25 June in Bangkok to advise the ESCAP Secretariat on the way forward beyond 2012.
2. The ESCAP Committee on Social Development (comprising
disability focal points from Governments, but all member states can attend) will be held in Bangkok from 19 -21 October 2010. A key meeting, setting the agenda beyond 2012 and the outcomes/decisions go to the 2012 Commission.
3. 2012 ESCAP Commission (usually held in April).
4. High-level inter-governmental meeting last quarter of 2012, Republic of Korea.
Other resolutions passed at this year's Commission with a Pacific flavour include "Pacific Urban Agenda" (sponsored by Fiji), "five year review of the Mauritius strategy for the further implementation of the programme of action for the sustainable development of small island states" (sponsored by Vanuatu) and "regional call for action to achieve universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support in Asia and the Pacific" (sponsored by Samoa).
Thanks,
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