Tag: ECOSOC
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$700 million investment: Umar Farooq gets Hilal-e-Imtiaz from Pakistan govt
LONDON (By Monitoring Desk): President Asif Ali Zardari has conferred Pakistan’s highest civilian award – the Hilal-e-Imtiaz – upon Dubai-based Pakistani origin businessman Umar Farooq Zahoor in recognition of his services for the state of Pakistan, mainly for bringing foreign direct investment worth hundreds of millions of US Dollars. President Asif Ali Zardari had approved…
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UN affiliate appoints Umar Farooq Zahoor ambassador
DUBAI (By News Desk): The Intergovernmental Institution for the Use of Micro-algae Spirulina Against Malnutrition (IIMSAM), an autonomous inter-governmental observer to the United Nations Economic and Social Council, has appointed UAE based Pakistani businessman Umer Farooq as a Goodwill Ambassador to promote Spirulina and advance the United Nations Millennium Development Goals in the fight against…
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Pakistan secures membership of three key United Nations Bodies
Islamabad, 21st April, 2021 (Press Release): In elections held at the United Nations headquarters in New York, Pakistan has secured the membership of three key UN bodies – the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (CCPCJ); the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW); and the Commission on Population and Development (CPD). These Commissions…
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UN ECOSOC considers options to mobilize finances of COVID19 hit countries
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 10 (APP): The UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) is considering various options to mobilize financing for the coronavirus-hit developing countries to enable them to avoid economic collapse, the 54-member body’s President, Ambassador Munir Akram of Pakistan, said Tuesday. Briefing media representatives, he said that their aim was to ensure that the developing countries…
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ECOSOC Chief Calls for Making Available New Coronavirus Vaccines to All Countries
The ECOSOC Chief has called for making available new coronavirus vaccines to all countries.
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Emergency funding needed to help coronavirus-hit poorer countries avoid economic collapse: ECOSOC chief
UNITED NATIONS, Dec 02 (APP): The President of U.N. Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), Ambassador Munir Akram of Pakistan, has called for providing emergency financing for coronavirus-hit developing countries to enable them to avoid economic collapse, as he stressed the need for international cooperation at this critical stage. Kaavan arrives ‘safely’ Cambodia for happier life…
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Pakistan urges debt suspension until developing countries’ recover from coronavirus’ havoc
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 13 (APP):Pakistan Thursday called on the Group of 20 nations, representing the world’s biggest economies, to extend the suspension of debt payments until the coronavirus-hit developing countries have recovered from the economic devastation wrought by the pandemic. “The COVID pandemic has devastated the economies of many developed countries and it has added…
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UN ECOSOC President Urges Intensified Effort on Sustainable Development Goals
The UN ECOSOC President has urged intensified effort in order to accomplish Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).