High-level Meeting on Antimicrobial Resistance – deadline TODAY for non-ECOSOC organizations and other matters

Today is the deadline for applying to attend the UN General Assembly High-level Meeting on Antimicrobial Resistance for organizations NOT in consultative status. (See:Urgent deadlines for registration for UN GA High-level Meeting on Antimicrobial Resistance, 15 and 28 August)

The President of the General Assembly has circulated a letter, on behalf of HE Peter Thomson, his successor,  inviting Member States to participate at the highest possible level in the High-level Meeting and to consider “as appropriate, to include in [their]...

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Urgent deadlines for registration for UN GA High-level Meeting on Antimicrobial Resistance, 15 and 28 August

We have received the following information for organizations wishing to apply to attend the UN General Assembly High-level Meeting on Antimicrobial Resistance.

Please note that the deadline for registering for Entities not in consultative status with UN ECOSOC to apply for special accreditation is 15 August and for Entities that are in consultative status with UN ECOSOC to apply to attend the meeting is 28 August.

To apply please complete the form here: https://fs22.formsite.com/unngls/form29/index.html

MY World 2030 – Collecting Data to Mobilize Dialogue

As reported by IISD, the next phase of MY World, called MY World 2030, has been launched by the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Action campaign, the UN Development Programme (UNDP), the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) and UN Global Pulse. It will support efforts to report on progress on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and mobilize and build dialogue among decision-makers.

MY World 2030 will collect globally comparable data on how people feel their lives are changing, using the MY World Community to report on progress. The UN SDG Action campaign will lead efforts to produce three comparable questions,...

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Theme for General Assembly 71st General Debate announced

The President-elect for the 71^st Session of the UN General Assembly, Ambassador Peter Thompson, has announced the theme for the 71^st General Debate, which will take place in September as The Sustainable Development Goals: a universal push to transform our world.

See attached letter

Delegations' objections, etc, following adoption of resolution on follow-up and review

The General Assembly adopted the resolution on Friday 29 July on follow-up and review which decides that the High-Level Political Forum  (HLPF) will spend the next three years focusing on a range of specific themes and targets, ranging from eradicating poverty to building resilience to empowering communities...

The provisions of the resolution

While the Assembly adopted the draft resolution titled “Follow-up and review of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development at the global level” by consensus,...

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H E Frederick Musiiwa Makamure Shave elected President of ECOSOC

H E Frederick Musiiwa Makamure Shava was elected as the seventy-second President of the Economic and Social Council on 28 July 2016. Ambassador Shava is currently the Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Republic of Zimbabwe to the United Nations in New York. 

Until his appointment in 2014, he served as Ambassador to China since 2007.  From 2003 to 2004, Ambassador Shava was a consultant on Zimbabwe’s Parliamentary reform.  As an elected official, he was Minister of State for Political Affairs in 1987 and Minister of Labour, Manpower Planning and Development from 1981 to 1986.

See: https://www.un.org/ecosoc/en/president/biography

Resolution on 2030 follow-up and review – consensus reached on draft

The President of the General Assembly has circulated a further letter in which he says that he has been informed that “consensus has been reached on the draft text” for the resolution on follow up and review. It will now go to the General Assembly on Friday 29 July 2016.

According to the draft resolution...

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Resolution on 2030 follow-up and review – still no agreement

The President of the UN General Assembly, Mogens Lykketoft has written to inform UN Member States that, at the request of Group of 77 and China, the informal consultations on the follow-up and review of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development "effectively have to be concluded" by 2 September 2016, and that facilitation must be done by Member States. In their letter, sent by the Chair of the Group of 77 and China, which is attached to his letter, he had been requested to renew his facilitation and good...

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ECOSOC takes action on draft decision of Statistical Commission on indicator framework

The UN Economic and Social Council (“ECOSOC”) met in early June to consider and adopt the report of the Statistical Commission’s meetings in March 2016, which included the its agreement on SDG indicators. 

Ms. Wasmália Bivar, Chairperson of the Statistical Commission updated the ECOSOC by video, summarizing the most recent outcomes...

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General Assembly High-Level Meeting on Antimicrobial Resistance, 21 September 2016 – update

A note has been circulated by Juan José Gómez Camacho, Permanent Representative of Mexico to the United Nations, as the Facilitator on the modalities resolution for the High Level Meeting on Antimicrobial Resistance  (AMR) of the plenary of the UN General Assembly to be held on 21 September. The silence was not broken on the resolution, on which a slight-additional editorial amendment was made at the request of the European Union, with the agreement of all countries...

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