His Royal Highness Prince Al Hassan Bin Talal will deliver a keynote speech on Wednesday 2 April 2014 before a crowd of officials from the government, the United Nations and its specialized agencies, the League of Arab States, financing institutions, and the civil society, at the opening of the “Arab High Level Forum on Sustainable Development” held in Hotel Kempinski, Amman, until Friday 4 April 2014.

The Senior Official Segment of ESCWA’s 27th Ministerial Session opened on 7 May at the U.N. House in Beirut. Speakers at the opening were the Deputy Executive Secretary of ESCWA, Mr. Nadim Khoury, the Director of International Cooperation in the Jordanian Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation, Ms. Zeina Touqan, representing the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, which chaired the 26th Session, and the Executive Director of the Economic Policy Affairs in the Emirati Ministry of Economy, Mr. Mohamad Saleh Shalwah.

Dubai hosted the deliberations on the sustainable development agenda in the Arab region, through the "Regional Arab Implementation Meeting" (RIM), held on 29 and 30 May at the Dubai Police Academy. ESCWA had organized the meeting in partnership with the League of Arab States (LAS), the United Arab Emirates Ministry of Environment and Water, the UN Environment Program/Regional Office of Western Asia (UNEP/ROWA), and the Zayed International Foundation for the Environment.

ESCWA marked on Monday 29 November the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People at the UN House in Beirut. The event was organized in cooperation with the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR).