Options proposed during the debate included holding the forum during the high level segment or for the high level segment to be replaced by the forum.

Good Governance in Investment Promotion

And they demanded authorities from to come down from their high horses.

The high level ministerial segment of the Forum was held on 25 and 26 May 2005 (7th to 10th meetings of the Forum). The Forum had before it the following documents

In accordance with the Forum's multi year programme of work, the second high level ministerial segment of the Forum will be held during its fifth session.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights opened the Social Forum.

We have also heard pointed calls for transparency in this forum.

15. The Forum directed that the Forum Secretariat continue to accord high priority to facilitating the implementation of the Action Plan and requested FEMM to report to the 1999 Forum on further progress in its implementation.

Presentation on the Second High Level Forum on the Health Millennium Development Goals

Those intergovernmental forums have served as a stimulus for work in the field of criminal justice and the interest generated by them over the years has increased considerably.

The Forum also holds a high level ministerial segment of two to three days duration, as required.

12. Recognizing the importance of efficient and effective communications services for both national and regional development, the Forum agreed to convene a Forum communications policy ministerial meeting.

Such a forum could be held biennially by transforming the high level segment of the Council.

NGO Forum

Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific

To address this gap, the Economic and Social Council should serve as a high level development cooperation forum.

The level and quality of participation by major group representatives have improved since the Forum was established.

UNCTAD assisted the Group of 77 and China in substantively servicing a High level Forum on Trade and Investment in Doha, Qatar, in December 2004, in which many African countries participated .

We are pleased that our own experience here is consistent with the conclusions of authoritative scientific forums.

In order that stakeholder involvement may be enhanced, participation by major groups continues to be strengthened.

Following a statement by the representative of Cuba, the Forum decided to revise the format of the high level segment.

The forum should be established at the highest level of the United Nations system, most appropriately directly under ECOSOC.

Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (Forum Asia)

The proposal put forward by the Secretary General for a high level development cooperation forum found general support among delegations, although there were some divergent views on the purpose of such a forum.

Member States have encouraged the regional commissions to participate in the fifth session of the Forum and to contribute to the review of the regional perspectives on forests, particularly during the Forum's high level segment.

The forum would provide an opportunity for high level participants to communicate their views on selected topics, and is also proposed for inclusion in the provisional agenda of the session (annex, item 9).

We can also be pleased at the progress made during the high level forum held in March 2005 at Paris on the effectiveness of development aid.

The year 2005 has witnessed unprecedented pledges of support for Africa at various forums, culminating in the pledges declared at the High level Plenary Meeting, in September.

Canada was pleased to be hosting the next World Urban Forum in 2006 in the award winning city of Vancouver.

Since the CDF s inception in 2000, the Chinese government has used the event to signal its policy priorities. In 2002, for example, the CDF focused on the impact of China s accession to the World Trade Organization a precursor to a spectacular surge of export led growth.

295. The Secretary of CCAQ recalled how much CCAQ had enjoyed participating in the Glen Cove forum.

The panellists will include Mr. Richard Samans, Managing Director, Global Institute for Partnership and Governance, World Economic Forum Ms. Barbara Samuels, Senior Advisor, Financing for Development Initiative, World Economic Forum and Ms. Lisa Dreier, Associate Director, Policy and Governance Initiatives, World Economic Forum.

Most of them operate solely in Lima. 195. The major thematic groups include the Standing Forum on Women and Politics, which was developed by women apos s institutions as a forum for communication among women involved in the promotion of women and women holding political positions, especially those in Parliament.

Within the Asia Pacific Economic Co operation Forum (APEC)

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The Forum recommends that in order to raise further awareness of indigenous peoples and the Millennium Development Goals, the Economic and Social Council High level Segment to be held from 29 June to 1 July 2005, and the General Assembly Summit to be held in September 2005 allow presentations of recommendations of the Forum at its fourth session on the Millennium Development Goals by the Chairperson of the Forum.

The Permanent Forum recommends that in order to raise further awareness of indigenous peoples and the Millennium Development Goals, the Economic and Social Council High level Segment to be held from 29 June to 1 July 2005, and the General Assembly Summit to be held in September 2005 allow presentations of recommendations of the Forum at its fourth session on the Millennium Development Goals by the Chairperson of the Forum.

Within the framework of the Asia Pacific Parliamentary Forum (APPF)

At the High level Forum on Aid Effectiveness recently held in Paris, the Union committed itself to improving the quality of its aid and to rationalizing its procedures.

In his keynote speech at the CDF, Zhang Gaoli, one of the seven members of the Politburo Standing Committee (the Chinese Communist Party s highest decision making body), declared that the senior leadership has rendered the strategic judgment that China s economy has entered the stage of the new normal. Yet, at the CDF s wrap up session, Premier Li Keqiang suggested, a bit less decisively, that China is basically following the world economy in its transition to a new normal.

(d) Decides to integrate the work and activities of the High Commissioner's Forum and Convention Plus into the programme of work of the Standing Committee in 2006

1. In accordance with the principle of dialogue between Governments and peoples we call for the rapid establishment of the permanent forum at the highest possible level

Since its first meeting in Santiago in March 2001, it has held consultations in three working groups and initiated work on a FEALAC academic network to help to raise interregional awareness.

42. The Working Group on Indigenous Populations considered, at its fourteenth session, that the permanent forum should be established at the highest possible level within the United Nations system and that it should not be a replacement for the Working Group on Indigenous Populations.

During the Ministerial meeting held in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, in April 1998, Malta assumed the Presidency of the Forum, and will be hosting the Mediterranean Forum Ministerial Meeting in 1999, as well as the preparatory meetings at the senior officials level.