Chairman of the ACIG Supervisory Board Viktor Tolmachev to take part in the 69th session of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP)

On April 25 - May 1, Bangkok will host the 69th annual session of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific. At the session meetings, the heads of states of the Central Asia, Asia Pacific and South-Eastern Asia will discuss disaster prevention mechanisms and the ways of overcoming the economic crisis in the region. Besides, the heads of five regional UN Commissions will consider the options for extending cooperation in trade, investments and finance which could contribute to the improvement of the life quality in the Asian-Pacific countries.

Upon the invitation of the UN Deputy Secretary, Executive Secretary of the UNESCAP Noeleen Heyzer, the Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the ACIG Group of Companies Viktor Tolmachev will take part in the work of the 69th session of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific. Senior officials from 41 country at the prime ministerial and ministerial level will also participate in the session.

Being a partner of the UNESCAP dialog within the framework of the UN Global Compact, ACIG Group of Companies takes part in the development of recommendations for eliminating existing threats and preventing emerging ones in Asia Pacific.

Emphasizing the importance of the high-level political dialog, Mr. Tolmachev noted: “At a time when the turbulence in developed countries’ finances and economies prevails, the strengthened role of the representatives of business community in stabilization of social, economic and political processes in the countries in transition becomes even more evident. Increased demand for the satisfaction of the vital human needs, such as food, water, clothes and housing, and ever-increasing requirement of governments to launch the new extended reproduction factors and modernize the obsolete ones, such as energy and transport infrastructure, determine the strategies of the global private  companies aimed at stimulating national economies’ growth rates, achieving Millennium Development Goals  and creating necessary conditions for the transition to the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals beyond 2015.”

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The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were adopted by the resolution of 193 member states of the United Nations at the UN Millennium Summit on September 8, 2000. For more information please visit http://www.un.org/russian/conferen/millennium/summit.htm.