Economic and financial stability in Asia is critical as we embark on the new 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development – a universal and ambitious blueprint that expands the horizons of policymaking to implement the 17 new Sustainable Development Goals, reduce the region’scollective environmental footprint and securethe resources necessaryto build the future we want.
14/01/2016Read more
Over land, by air and by sea, the people of Asia and the Pacific are on the move – this is the finding of the forthcoming Asia-Pacific Migration Report, the result of United Nations research led by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific(ESCAP) and the International Organization for Migration.
18/12/2015Read more
On 15 December, a three-day consultations of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations with the Governments of Central Asia and Azerbaijan on development of mechanism of effective realization of the second stage of the FAO cooperation programme with the Government of Turkey, as well as FAO partnership programme in the sphere of forestry, signed with the Turkish Government, started in Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic.
15/12/2015Read more
The world economy stumbled in 2015 and only a modest improvement is projected for 2016/17 as a number of cyclical and structural headwinds persist, says the United Nations World Economic Situation and Prospects (WESP) 2016 report, launched on 10 December.
11/12/2015Read more
A prominent Russian director Eldar Ryazanov has died in Moscow age 88, his family has revealed.
30/11/2015Read more
Bishkek hosted sub-regional consultations of the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (UN FAO) on realization of Rotterdam Convention on agreed actions on control over pesticides and chemical means at national and regional levels,
18/11/2015Read more
The Russian plane, Airbus A321 of Metrojet (Kogalymavia), crash in Sinai, Egypt, was caused by a terrorist attack as traces of explosives have been found in the wreckage of the plane, Federal Security Service director Aleksandr Bortnikov told President Vladimir Putin.
17/11/2015Read more
Several terrorist acts were carried out almost simultaneously in the capital of France on 13 November, which took the lives from 120 to 150 people.
14/11/2015Read more
The amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere reached yet another new record high in 2014, continuing a relentless rise which is fuelling climate change and will make the planet more dangerous and inhospitable for future generations.
10/11/2015Read more
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