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31 August 2016	Capacity Development for Climate Change Negotiations for the Arab Countries, 7th Regional Training Workshop	The workshop, organized by ESCWA in partnership with LAS, UNEP/ROWA, UNESCO and the Moroccan Ministry of Foreign Affairs aims to enhance the understanding of the Arab negotiators of the Paris Agreement, its means of implementation and to coordinate the Arab position for the upcoming COP22 meeting.
3 August 2018	UN-ESCWA and Italy partner to support empowerment of women refugees from Syria	3^rd August, 2018, Beirut — In a signing ceremony today between the Ambassador of Italy, Massimo Marotti, and the UN Under Secretary General, and ESCWA Executive Secretary, Mohamed Ali Alhakim, a new project was launched that will empower women refugees from Syria and vulnerable women and girls in host communities to play an active role in improving their lives and advocating for their rights.
11 December 2014	ESCWA Convened the Fourteenth Session of its Committee on Transport	The Jordanian Capital, Amman, hosted the 14th Session of its Committee on Transport on 9 and 10 October 2013. Minister of Transport in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan Lina Chbib inaugurated the meeting, which was attended by specialists in diverse transport and legislation-related areas from ESCWA member countries, alongside representatives of several relevant regional and international bodies.
7 October 2012	UN-LAS General Meeging on Cooperation	Your Excellencies, Colleagues Representing Sister U.N. Agencies Ladies and Gentlemen It gives me great pleasure to be among you today and to represent the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia in this important coordination meeting. I bring to you the greetings of the ESCWA Executive Secretary, Dr. Rima Khalaf who has placed partnership with the League of Arab States front and centre of the organization’s partnership strategy.
23 August 2018	ESCWA reiterates its support to the Palestinian people, calls to put end to Israeli occupation	The Gaza Strip will be unlivable by 2020. That is what the United Nations has continued to warn as the world mobilizes efforts to achieve the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by the universally agreed deadline.
19 November 2019	Fifth Arab Internet Governance Forum (ArabIGF-V)	The Fifth Arab IGF seeks to strengthen dialogue on Internet governance priority areas for the region, as stipulated in the Second Arab Roadmap for Internet Governance.
11 December 2014	United Nations Chief: Leaders Must Listen to Their People Khalaf: Building National Consensus Crucial to Transitions Mikati: UN Agencies Primary Resort for Peoples ESCWA Opens Reform and Transition to Democracy Meeting	Sunday, 15 January 2012 (United Nation Information Service) - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called on those who believe in a future of freedom and dignity to come together and help people of the region and their leaders to write the next chapters. He said that from the very beginning of these revolutions, from Tunisia through Egypt and beyond, he has called on leaders to listen to their people, a call that some heeded and benefitted while others did not, and today are facing the storm. "I say again to President Assad of Syria: Stop the violence. Stop killing your own people.
5 December 2014	UNCTAD XII
5 December 2014	Training workshop on industrial statistics in the Arab countries
11 December 2014	UN-ESCWA Meeting on Maritime Transport in the Arab Mashreq	Under the auspices of Egyptian Minister of Transport Mohamed Mansour, UN-ESCWA convened an Expert Group Meeting (EGM) entitled "Towards the Implementation of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Maritime Transport Cooperation in the Arab Mashreq: The Role of Governments and Private Sector in Activating Shipping Traffic and Application of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in the Seaports of UN-ESCWA Member Countries" in Cairo from 12 to 14 February 2007.

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