Kausar Shah, District Education Officer, also present on the occasion shed light on the significance of literacy in the region.

UNESCO: EDUCATION

Feedback will be incorporated into the subsequent event, "Power Shift NZ-Pacific" which runs from the 7th to 9th of December, to ensure the presence of a Pacific perspective to climate change - an issue of extreme significance to the Pacific region.

UNESCO: Pacific and M��ori Youth Converge to Talk Disaster Resilience.

The Arctic's importance has gained extra strategic and economic significance as melting ice in the polar region strengthens the feasibility of nations to use the Northern Sea Route (NSR) across the top of Russia and the Northwest Passage through Canada's Arctic archipelago.

CNN: China eyes Arctic options in energy, transport

Enrollment in secondary education more than doubled from 20.8 million to 43.7 million to grasp the full significance of the dividends yielded by the Education for All effort across the region within a decade.

UNESCO: EDUCATION

EU's significance to Latin America is in turn shrinking: its 17% of the region's imports represented a fall from the 21% of 1990, while the United States' share rose over the same period from 38% to 42%.

ECONOMIST: Latin America and Europe

Whatever the degree to which Mr Obama might sanction intervention - and dreadful events on the ground might force his hand - it is clear that the diminished US appetite for warfare, combined with the breadth of the crises enfolding the region, would most likely mean that any direct Western military role would be short lived and of limited significance.

BBC: Bashar al-Assad