Next the Secretary-General attended a lunch for High-Level Forum heads of delegation, hosted by Lee Myung-bak, the President of the Republic of Korea.
Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) is a high-level forum modeled after the World Economic Forum and hosts meetings for heads of state and businesspeople.
During the High-Level Forum, she participated in sessions on education, capacity development and knowledge sharing, and the impact of internationally agreed norms, goals and standards on aid effectiveness.
Director-General Irina Bokova joined the United Nations delegation to the High-Level Forum, which gathers some 3, 000 participants, including 100 ministers, forty heads of international organizations, parliamentarians, the business community and civil society.
Asean, which is the only high-level forum for security issues in Asia, has fallen into disarray this year as Cambodia, a close Beijing ally and the chairman of the organisation, has undermined efforts by the Philippines and Vietnam to form a consensus about how to respond to China's assertive stance.
Initiatives such as the Asian-African Strategic Partnership established to improve investment opportunities between Asia and Africa, the annual China-Africa Co-operation Forum and frequent trips by high-level Chinese officials to resource-rich countries such as South Africa and Nigeria have bolstered the China-Africa relationship.
Boao is an undisguised knock-off of the World Economic Forum in Davos (with skiing replaced by snorkeling perhaps): a high-level gathering for policy and business influencers, with a similar nudge-and-influence mandate, here with an Asian focus.
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We appreciated the substantial increase in high-level U.S. engagement in ASEAN-led political-security fora, including the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF), the ASEAN Defence Ministers' Meeting Plus (ADMM-Plus), the EAS, and the Expanded ASEAN Maritime Forum.
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This sixth meeting of the EFA High-Level Group, which has met annually since the Dakar Forum, paid special attention to the goal of expanding early childhood care and education (ECCE).
Mindy regularly speaks about corporate and investor sustainability issues to high-level leaders at the New York Stock Exchange, United Nations, World Economic Forum, Clinton Global Initiative, American Accounting Association, American Bar Association and more than 100 Fortune 500 firms.
Certainly by joining the now 23-country forum, North Korea is obliged to make public its key positions on defense, participate in high-level exchange visits related to security and give prior notice to other members of military drills.
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