Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam attendS and deliver a speech at the opening of the ESCAP’s 78th session (Photo: VNA) The elections were conducted within the framework of the ESCAP’s78th session held in Bangkok.
SIAP is a professional statistics training centre forgovernment officials and others working on official statistics. It offers short- and long-term training specifically to strengthen knowledge and build skills ofnational governments' employees to produce, use, and share reliable statistics,including for the monitoring of the Sustainable Development Goals and thedevelopment of fact-based policy.
Meanwhile, CSAM, based in Beijing, aims to enhancetechnical cooperation among the members and associate members of ESCAP as wellas other interested member states of the UN, through extensive exchange ofinformation and sharing of knowledge, and promotion of research and developmentand agro-business development in the area of sustainable agricultural mechanisationand technology transfer for the attainment of the internationally agreeddevelopment goals including the Millennium Development Goals in theAsia-Pacific region.
The Governing Councils of SIAP and CSAM each comprise of therepresentative of the host country and eight other members elected by ESCAPmembers.
Established 1947, ESCAP is one of the five regionalcommissions of the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). The commissionpromotes cooperation among its 53 member states and nine associate members inpursuit of solutions to sustainable development challenges.
The annual session will be an opportunity to reviewachievements of the Asia-Pacific region in socio-economic development anddiscuss future cooperation and linkage to deal with challenges.
Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam attended and delivered a speechat the opening of the ESCAP’s 78th session on May 23./.
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