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Commission on Population and Development, forty-first session (2008)

Date: 
07 April 2008 to 11 April 2008

Population distribution, urbanization, internal migration and development

Members of the Commission

Bureau members

  • Mr. Ivan Piperkov (Bulgaria) - Eastern-European Group (Chair)

  • Mr. Hossein Gharibi (Islamic Republic of Iran) - Asia-Pacific Group (Vice-Chair)

  • Mr. Fredrick Matwang’a (Kenya) - African Group (Vice-Chair)

  • Ms. Alicia Melgar (Uruguay) - Latin American and Caribbean Group (GRULAC) (Vice-Chair)

  • Ms. Pauline Eizema (Netherlands) - Western European and Others Group (WEOG) (Vice-Chair)

 

Report of the Commission on its forty-first session

(E/CN.9/2008/8 and E/2008/25) (English, French, Spanish)

 
Resolutions and decisions
  • Provisional agenda for the forty-second session of the Commission ()
  • Draft report of the Commission on its forty-first session ()
  • Resolution on Population distribution, urbanization, internal migration and development ()
Agenda item 1

Election of officers

Agenda item 2

Provisional agenda ()

Report on the Meetings of the Bureau of the Commission on Population and Development ()

Note by the Secretariat containing the organization of work of the session ()

Statement by Mr. Leo Merores, President, ECOSOC

Agenda item 3

Statement by Mr. Thomas Buettner, Assistant Director, Population Division

Report of the Secretary-General on world population monitoring, focusing on population distribution, urbanization, internal migration and development ()

Corrigendum: Report of the Secretary-General on world population monitoring, focusing on population distribution, urbanization, internal migration and development  () English only]

Statement by Mr. Jose Miguel Guzman, Technical Support Division, UNFPA 

Report of the Secretary-General on monitoring of population programmes focusing on population distribution, urbanization, internal migration and development ()

Statement by Ms. Ann Pawliczko, Population and Development Branch, UNFPA

Report of the Secretary-General on the flow of financial resources for assisting in the implementation of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development ()

Statement submitted by The International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), a non-governmental organization in consultative status with the Economic and Social Council ()

Statement submitted by the World Youth Alliance, a nongovernmental organization in consultative status with the Economic and Social Council ()

Statement submitted by Population Action International, a nongovernmental organization in roster consultative status with the Economic and Social Council ()

Draft resolution submitted by the Chairman on the basis of informal consultations ()

 

Keynote address

 

  • Keynote statement by David Satterthwaite, International Institute for Environment and Development, United Kingdom, on Urbanization and internal migration: Their relevance for sustainable development (Monday, 7 April 2008, 3-4 p.m. EDT) [Presentation] [Text

 

Country statements

 

Bangladesh

China

Cuba

Group of 77 and China

Holy See

Indonesia

Russian Federation

United States of America

 

UN system statement

 

ESCAP

 

Agenda item 4

No official documentation

 

Keynote addresses

 

  • Keynote statement by Mark Montgomery, Population Council, New York, on Urban growth and poverty (Tuesday, 8 April 2008, noon-1 p.m. EDT) [Presentation
  • Keynote statement by Helen Zille, Mayor, Cape Town, South Africa, on Urban governance, lessons learned and challenges ahead: The example of Cape Town (Tuesday, 8 April 2008, 3-4 p.m. EDT) [Presentation

 

Country statements

 

Armenia

Austria

Belgium

Botswana

Brazil

Bulgaria

Canada

China

Cuba

European Union

Ghana

Group of 77 and China

India

Indonesia

Iran

Italy

Jamaica

Japan

Kazakhstan

Malaysia

Mexico

Morocco

Pakistan

Peru

Philippines

Poland

Portugal

Qatar

South Africa

Spain

Sri Lanka

Sweden

Switzerland

Uruguay

 

 

 

UN system statements

 

   
ECLAC ESCWA  

 

IGO/NGO statements

 

   
AARP IOM IPPF
Agenda item 5

Statement by Mr. Armindo Miranda, Senior Population Affairs Officer, Office of the Director, Population Division

Report of the Secretary-General on Programme implementation and progress of work in the field of population in 2007: Population Division, Department of Economic and Social Affairs ()

Proposed strategic framework for the period 2010-2011: Subprogramme 6, Population, of programme 7, Economic and Social Affairs )

 

Keynote address

 

  • Keynote statement by Eduardo Moreno, UN-Habitat, Nairobi, on Improving the lives of urban slum-dwellers (Wednesday, 9 April 2008, noon-1 p.m. EDT) [Presentation

 

Country statements

 

Group of 77 and China Norway United States of America

 

UN system statements

 

ECLAC ESCAP ESCWA
Agenda item 6

Note by the Secretariat containing the provisional agenda for the forty-second session of the Commission ()

 

Agenda item 7

Report of the Commission on its forty-first session ( and E/2008/25) (English, French, Spanish)

 

Country statement

 

United States of America
Closing statements
  • Statement by Mr. Ivan Piperkov, Chairman, Forty-first Session of the Commission on Population and Development 
  • Statement by Mr. Thomas Stelzer, Assistant-Secretary-General for Policy Coordination and Inter-Agency Affairs, Department of Economic and Social Affairs
  • Statement by Ms. Hania Zlotnik, Director, United Nations Population Division
Side event

 

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