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Saturday, 17 December 2005 The UN Day Reception/ Dinner and the Appointment of National Goodwill Ambassadors The United Nations Country Team hosted a reception on the 17th of December 2005 to commemorate the UN day and launch the beginning of a UN week focusing on the theme of "Women and Development". HRH Prince Sultan bin Salman, The President of the Higher Commission for Tourism; Dr. Nasser... Read more |
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Saturday, 17 December 2005 Within its UN Week Activities UNDP Saudi Arabia Holds A Workshop on Women & The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) Project BriefReading KitPress ReleasesPresentations & Paper by SpeakersPhoto GalleryFinal Report Reading Kit:- Concept Paper - A paper on Women & MDGs (ورقة عن مفهوم المرأة والأهداف التنموية للألفية) - The Objectives of the Forum & the Methodologies of the Workshop (أهداف منتدى المرأة والألفية وآلية عمل ورش العمل) - The... Read more |
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Monday, 12 December 2005 12 December 2004, UNDP Conducts A Seminar at King Saud University on Human Development and MDGs On the 12th of December 2004, UNDP Saudi Arabia Programme Coordinator Abdulelah Al-Sheikh conducted the first in a series of public seminars on Human Development (HD) and the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) in the department of geography, in the Faculty of Arts in King Saud University.Brief (English) Read more |
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Monday, 21 November 2005 21 November 2005, UN Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative and the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs for Social & Economic Issues Hold a Workshop to Discuss the UNDP Country Programme in Saudi ArabiaMr. El-Mostafa Benlamlih, UN RC & UNDP RR, and Mr. Youssef Al-Saadoun, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs for Economic and Social Issues, jointly lead a workshop to discuss the Country Programme for the United Nations Development Programme in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Key economic and social issues that feed... Read more |
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Wednesday, 9 November 2005 9-11 November 2005, the UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan, Visit Saudi Arabia to meet with the King and other Government Officials to Discuss Regional MattersKofi Annan, United Nations Secretary-General, visited the city of Jeddah to meet with King Abdullah bin AbdulAziz, HRH Prince Saud Al-Faisal, Saudi Foreign Minister, and several other officials. The talks revolved around issues in the Middle East, including regional stability, the peace process, Iraq and Syria as well as other... Read more |
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Wednesday, 6 April 2005 6 April 2005, the Arab Human Development Report locally launched in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia for the mediaA large number of internationally-known political, cultural and intellectual personalities were invited to attend this annual festival. The festival marked great efforts in promoting women’s cultural and intellectual activities. In addition, over 50 scholars and intellectuals from within and outside the Kingdom have attended and participated in the festival’s seminar... Read more |
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Sunday, 20 February 2005 20 February 2005, The 6th Jeddah Economic Forum (JEF) Inaugurated Under the Theme "Capacity Building: Developing People for Sustainable Growth".More than 2000 national and over seas participants attended the three days forum. Many prominent figures and heads of states were among the significant speakers and participants. This time, we’ll adopt a more holistic methodology that expands the hard economic approach to development in order to encompass the softer social... Read more |
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Thursday, 10 February 2005 10 February 2005, Saudi Citizens Exercise their Voting Rights in The First Ever Elections Held in the Country.El-Mostafa Benlamlih, UN Resident Coordinator & UNDP Resident Representative in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Visits Prince Mut'eb Ben Abdulaziz, Minister of Municipal and Rural Affairs, to Congratulate Him for the Success of The Municipal Elections. Read more |
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Saturday, 5 February 2005 5-8 February 2005, The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Holds an International Counter-Terrorism Conference.The purpose of the conference was to take common action against terrorism and discuss ideas and offer proposals for dealing with terrorism, its infrastructure and its underlying causes. Two UN delegations participated in this event. Mr. Javier Ruperez, the Executive Director of the United Nations Counter- Terrorism Executive Directorate (CTED),... Read more |
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Monday, 17 January 2005 17 January 2005, UN Millennium Project Report " Investing in Development" presented to UN secretary- general Kofi Anan.In the most comprehensive strategy ever put forward for combating global poverty, hunger and disease, a blue-ribbon team of 265 of the world’s leading development experts today proposed a package of scores of specific cost-effective measures that together could cut extreme poverty in half and radically improve the lives of... Read more |