Press release
3 Apr 2017
Beirut, Lebanon
ESCWA Takes Part in Brussels Conference
Mattar is accompanied by a technical team from the National Agenda for the Future of Syria (NAFS) at ESCWA to participate in the technical workshops on Tuesday 4 April 2017 titled “Assessing the Needs, towards Post-Agreement Planning” which will highlight the findings of Syrian experts within the programme in terms of the size of destruction that has ensued from the Syrian crisis.
In January 2017, NAFS launched the final document of the Agenda’s Phase I as the “Strategic Policy Alternatives Framework-Post Conflict Syria.”
ESCWA in brief
ESCWA is one of the five UN regional commissions. It is part of the UN Secretariat, and works under the supervision of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). It provides a framework for the formulation and harmonisation of sectoral policies for member countries; a platform for congress and coordination; a home for expertise and knowledge, and an information observatory. It aims at supporting economic and social cooperation between the region’s countries and promoting development process in order to achieve regional integration.
Mauritania became member of ESCWA in October 2015. The Republic of Tunis, Libya, and the Kingdom of Morocco had joined it in September 2012. By those new memberships, the number of ESCWA countries rose to 18, including: Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the Sudan, the Syrian Arab Republic, Tunisia, the United Arab Emirates and Yemen.
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For more information:
Nabil Abu-Dargham (head of ECIU) +961-70-99 31 44; dargham@un.org
Ms. Mirane Abi-Zaki: abi-zaki@un.org
Ms. Rania Harb: harb1@un.org
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