| 9-13
April 2007
40th
Session of the UN Commission on Population
and Development
New York, USA — The
40th Session of the UN Commission
on Population and Development, which
took place at the United Nations,
New York, from 9 to 13 April 2007,
had as its main theme the Changing
Age Structures of Populations and
Their Implications for Development.
In the documents presented at the
Session and the discussions that followed,
special attention was given to the
issues relating to population aging
as also to the problems facing the
very large numbers of adolescents
and young people in many developing
countries.
In
her statement at the opening session,
Dr Thoraya Obaid, Executive Director,
UNFPA pointed out that the amount
of support given to the family planning
sector had declined to 9 percent from
55 percent in 1994 and indicated that
unless greater support were given
to reproductive health services, including
family planning, the objective of
providing universal reproductive health
services by 2015 would not be met.
Mr
Jiang Fan, Vice Minister of the National
Population and Family Commission of
China, in his statement, stressed
the need “to advance South-South
cooperation” and “to reinforce
policy dialogues and experience sharing.”
“We call for greater support
and assistance to the Partners in
Population and Development, an intergovernmental
organization of developing countries
for population and development, so
that Partners may play a better role
in this concern.”
In
a similar vein, Dr Sugiri Syarief,
Chairman, National Family Planning
Coordination Board (BKKBN) of Indonesia,
called on the international community
and donors “to strengthen South-South
cooperation through the Partners in
Population and Development. The members
of Partners in Population and Development
represent more than 50 percent of
the world’s population. Therefore,
sustaining population policies and
programmes in Member States of Partners
in Population and Development will
greatly impact the global population
dynamic and the group’s development
programmes.”
Partners
was represented at the Session by
Mr Jyoti Shankar Singh, Partners’
Permanent Observer to the United Nations.
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