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| 40th
Session of the UN Commission on Population and Development.
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: 9 to 13 April 2007 |
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The
40th Session of the UN Commission on Population and
Development, which took place at the United Nations,
New York, from 9 to 13 April 2007, had as its main theme
the Changing Age Structures of Populations and Their
Implications for Development. In the documents presented
at the Session and the discussions that followed, special
attention was given to the issues relating to population
aging as also to the problems facing the very large
numbers of adolescents and young people in many developing
countries.
In
her statement at the opening session, Dr Thoraya Obaid,
Executive Director, UNFPA pointed out that the amount
of support given to the family planning sector had declined
to 9 percent from 55 percent in 1994 and indicated that
unless greater support were given to reproductive health
services, including family planning, the objective of
providing universal reproductive health services by
2015 would not be met.
Mr
Jiang Fan, Vice Minister of the National Population
and Family Commission of China, in his statement, stressed
the need “to advance South-South cooperation”
and “to reinforce policy dialogues and experience
sharing.” “We call for greater support and
assistance to the Partners in Population and Development,
an intergovernmental organization of developing countries
for population and development, so that Partners may
play a better role in this concern.”
In
a similar vein, Dr Sugiri Syarief, Chairman, National
Family Planning Coordination Board (BKKBN) of Indonesia,
called on the international community and donors “to
strengthen South-South cooperation through the Partners
in Population and Development. The members of Partners
in Population and Development represent more than 50
percent of the world’s population. Therefore,
sustaining population policies and programmes in Member
States of Partners in Population and Development will
greatly impact the global population dynamic and the
group’s development programmes.”
Partners was represented at the Session by Mr Jyoti
Shankar Singh, Partners’ Permanent Observer to
the United Nations.
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