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5 December 2014	2013 Arab MDGs Report to Be Launched from New York	On Monday the 23rd of September 2013, the United Nations Headquarters in New York will witness the launching of the Arab Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) Report 2013 in a ceremony, which will be held at 13:15 (1:15 pm).
25 June 2020	ESCWA and FAO discuss regional production and consumption for sustainable land management	Regional talks commemorating Desertification and Drought Day 24 June 2020 – The Arab region needs to innovatively sustain its land and protect it from degradation and loss in order to ensure a sustainable future. This was the main message of the joint FAO-ESCWA celebration of Desertification and Drought Day under the theme “Food. Feed and Fibre” held virtually on Monday across the Arab region.
11 December 2014	Executive Secretary Says Arab Integration Can no Longer Remain a Purely Intellectual Luxury	UN Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of ESCWA Rima Khalaf today said that full Arab integration, which takes into account its economic, social and cultural dimensions, can no longer remain a purely intellectual luxury. Rather, it is a strategic choice and a fundamental prerequisite of an Arab renaissance, which can provide security and welfare for people, and prosperity and invincibility for countries.
11 December 2014	Tallawy Heads First UNESCWA Advisory Committee Meeting After War, Says Bulk of Technical Cooperation Activities to Focus on Lebanon Assistance	The regular meeting of the UNESCWA Advisory Committee began with a word from Executive Secretary Mervat Tallawy saluting the Lebanese people who “persevered during the destructive war that raged on, inflicting death and displacement.” She also saluted the governments and Arab peoples who “rushed to assist Lebanon in its plight and provided whatever they could.”
11 December 2014	ESCWA Opens Sixth Session of Trade Liberalization, Globalization Committee	The Executive Secretary of the UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), Bader AlDafa, today called for strengthening inter-Arab trade and investments, the advancement of trade, and promotion of the private sector and investment to ward off repercussions of the global financial crisis and achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
11 December 2014	The Phoenix
22 June 2015	First Regional Training-of-Trainers Workshop - Academy of ICT Essentials for Government Leaders in the ESCWA Region, Beirut 8-12 June 2015	Within the implementation of the project Academy of ICT Essentials for Government Leaders in the ESCWA Region (AIGLE), ESCWA is organizing the Regional Training-of-Trainers Workshop on the following four training modules (in Arabic): (1) Linkage between ICT and development (2) ICT for development policies (3) e-Government: policies, strategies and applications (4) Internet Governance
31 October 2016	ESCWA at COP22	ESCWA has partnered with several regional and international organizations and Member States to organize several side events during COP22 in Marrakech, Morocco.
10 October 2018	Workshop highlights tools, actions to implement ‘Open Government’ in the Arab region	Beirut, 05 October 2018 (Communication and Information Unit) – Achieving “open government” in the Arab region was the focus of a recent workshop held at the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) in Beirut, where the regional commission’s experts presented tools and actions to develo
5 July 2012	Address to the twenty-seventh session of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA)	Excellencies, Ladies and gentlemen,

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