| 22
January, 2008
PPD
briefs Permanent Missions at the United
Nations
New
York, USA —
The
Partners in Population and Development
(PPD) and the Permanent Mission of
Uganda to the United Nations, organized
a briefing on South-South cooperation
in population and development, with
particular reference to the work of
PPD, for the Permanent Missions to
the UN on 22 January at the Uganda
House. The briefing was attended by
representatives of Permanent Missions
of (1) The People’s Republic
of China; (2) Colombia ; (3) Permanent
Mission of The Arab Republic Egypt;
(4) Federal Democratic Republic of
Ethiopia ; (5) India; (6) Republic
of Indonesia; (7) The Kingdom of Morocco;
(8) Pakistan; (9) Thailand ; (10)
Republic of Uganda; (11) The Republic
of Yemen. Two representatives of UNFPA
also attended the briefing.
Representative
of Permanent Missions meeting in New
York
Mr.
Harry S. Jooseery, Executive Director
of PPD, joined by Dr. Jotham Musinguzi,
Director of PPD Regional Office in
Uganda and Mr. Jyoti Singh, Permanent
Observer of PPD at the United Nations,
briefed members of the Missions on
current activities and future plans
of PPD. The participants showed particular
interest in the proposed PPD activities
in Africa and suggested future cooperation
between UNDP Unit on South-South cooperation
and the office of PPD Permanent Observer
to the UN.
Two
previous briefings were organized
by PPD in 2007 -
(1) in cooperation with the Permanent
Mission of Indonesia and;
(2) in cooperation with the Permanent
Mission of Uganda. The participants
of the latest briefing suggested
that PPD continue to organized such
briefings in future.
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