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| 17 May 2017 |
ESCWA Executive Secretary Arrives in Beirut |
United Nations Under-Secretary-General and ESCWA Executive Secretary Mohamed Ali Alhakim arrived this evening in Beirut to assume his responsibilities. He was received at the Rafik Hariri International Airport by Iraqi Ambassador to Lebanon Ali Al Ameri, ESCWA Deputy Executive Secretary Khawla Mattar, ESCWA Secretary Karim Khalil and a number of officials in the Commission. Before his appointment, Alhakim was the Permanent Representative and Ambassador of Iraq to the United Nations in New York since May 2013. |
| 11 December 2014 |
Let us Compete in Arabic! |
The Digital Arabic Content (DAC) industry offers great investment opportunities in the Arab region. Despite the presence of many challenges to its development in Arab countries, its chances of success are fairly big, in view of the mounting reliance on the Internet in economic and social activities, and of the presence of over 300 million Arabic-speaking persons. |
| 11 December 2014 |
Meeting Brings Together Expertise and Stakeholders to Tackle Development Under Crisis Conditions |
An Expert Group Meeting on “Development Under Crisis Conditions” opened yesterday that is being hosted by UNESCWA in cooperation with the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Institute at the UN House, Beirut. The meeting, which is taking place from 27 to 28 June 2006, is enhancing development efforts in this often unstable region by bringing together expertise and stakeholders to address the causes and effects of conflict in the region. |
| 5 July 2018 |
Call for Proposals: Building Collaborations between Official Statistics and Journalism |
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| 11 December 2014 |
Celebration of the First UN Global Road Safety Week |
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| 25 June 2018 |
Launch of the Arab Thought Foundation’s 10th Report on Cultural Development: Innovation or Extinction? |
On the side-lines of the 30th Ministerial Session of ESCWA
Launch of the Arab Thought Foundation’s 10th Report on Cultural Development: Innovation or Extinction? Beirut, UN-House, 27 June 2018 What: Launching of the Tenth Arab Report on Cultural Development, an annual report launched by the Arab Thought Foundation since 2008 on the status of cultural development in the Arab countries |
| 11 December 2014 |
ESCWA Region’s Road Safety, Transport Infrastructure Examined |
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| 11 December 2014 |
UN Launches WESP 2010 in Beirut |
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| 3 April 2017 |
ESCWA Takes Part in Brussels Conference |
Beirut, 3 April 2017 (Communication and Information Unit) – United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), represented by its Acting Executive Secretary Khawla Mattar, is taking part in the meetings and technical workshops on the sidelines of the international conference "Supporting the Future of Syria and the Region" held in Brussels, Belgium, Wednesday 5 April 2017. |
| 2 May 2017 |
Technical Cooperation between ESCWA and Sudan |
Acting Executive Secretary of ESCWA Khawla Mattar signed on 23 April 2017 on behalf of ESCWA a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Sudanese Minister of Trade Salah Mohamed Al-Hassan on behalf of the Ministry in order to provide a framework for inter-institutional dialogue and cooperation on matters of common interest in the fields of sustainable development until the end of 2019. The ceremony was attended by Sudanese Minister of Communication and Information Technology Tahani Abdallah Attia. |