Statements

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Ministerial Segment

Opening of Ministerial Segment, 17 May 2016

• Policy Statement by Ms. Shamshad Akhtar, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Secretary of ESCAP
• Statement by H.E. Mr. Josaia Voreqe Bainimarama, Prime Minister of Fiji and Chair of the seventy-first session of the Commission
• Opening statement by address by H.E. General Anantaporn Kanjanarat, Minister of Energy, Thailand

Policy issues for the Asia-Pacific region

• Country Statements, 18 May 2016
  Morning
  • H.E. Mr. Vitavas Srivihok, Acting Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Kingdom of Thailand
  • H.E. Mr Maatia Toafa, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance, Tuvalu
  • H.E. Mr. Ly Thuch, Senior Minister and Chairman, National Committee for the Economic and Social Commission of Asia and the Pacific, Cambodia
  • H.E. Mr. Cho Tae-yul, Vice Minister, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Korea
  • H.E. Mr. Masakazu Hamachi, Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs, Japan
  • H.E. Mr. Lakshman Senevirathne, State Minister of Science, Technology and Research, Sri Lanka
  • H.E. Mr. Annadurdy Kosayev, Deputy Minister of Road Transport, Turkmenistan
  • H.E. Mr. Gankhuyag Damba, State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mongolia
  • H.E. Mr. Seyed Hamid Pourmohammadi Gelsefidi, Deputy Vice President for Production Affairs, Management and Planning Organization, Islamic Republic of Iran
  • Dr. Andi Eka Sakya, Head of the Agency for Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics, Indonesia

  Afternoon

  • H.E. Mr. Rana Tanveer, Federal Minister for Science and Technology, Pakistan
  • H.E. Mr. Qian Hongshan, Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs, China (translated)
  • H.E. Dr. Kikeo Chanthabury, Vice Minister of Planning and Investment, Lao People's Democratic Republic
  • H.E. Mr. Nguyen Quoc Dung, Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs, Viet Nam
  • H.E. Mr. Robert Harutyunyan, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Armenia
  • H.E. Mr. Alexander A. Pankin, Director, International Organizations Department, Ministry for Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation
  • H.E. Mr. Khaga Nath Adhikari, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary and Permanent Representative of Nepal to ESCAP
  • H.E. Haji Ismail bin Haji Abdul Manap, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Brunei Darussalam
  • H.E. Ms. Amatlain E. Kabua, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Marshall Islands to the United Nations
  • Mr. Anar Huseynov, Deputy Head, Economic Cooperation and Development Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Azerbaijan
  • Mr. Lee Chong Hock, Minister-Counselor and Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of Singapore
  • H.E. Abdul Sattar Muard, Minister of Economy, Afghanistan
• Country Statements, 19 May 2016
  • H.E. Mr. Bhagwant Singh Bishnoi, Ambassador of India to Thailand and Permanent Representative of India to ESCAP
  • H.E. Mr. Damcho Dorji, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bhutan
  • H.E. Mr. Ilyosiddin Kamolitdinov, Deputy Minister of Economic Development and Trade, Tajikistan
  • Mr. Muhammad Alkama Siddiqui, Additional Secretary, Economic Relations Division , Ministry of Finance, Bangladesh
  • H.E. Ms. Mary Jo A. Bernardo-Aragon, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Philippines to ESCAP
  • Mr. Mohd Faizal Razali, Minister and Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of Malaysia, and Permanent Representative of Malaysia to ESCAP
  • Ms. Octavia Borthwick, Permanent Representative of Australia to ESCAP
  • Mr. Jae Hon Kim, Counselor, Embassy of Democratic People's Republic of Korea and Permanent Representative of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea to ESCAP
  • Mr. Rodolphe Sambou, First Secretary, Embassy of France in Thailand
  • Mr. Kar Kin Luk, Bruno, Director, Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office
  • Mr. Tai Kin Ip, Director of the Economic Services, Macao China
  • Mr. Seyed Jalaledin Alavi Sabzevari, Deputy Secretary General, Economic Cooperation Organization