The three-day event is hosted by UNESCO and co-organized with the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).

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That is why the CBD is cooperating closely with the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) to foster such markets through its Biotrade Initiative.

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According to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (Unctad), foreign direct investment (FDI) was one of the main casualties of the global slowdown last year.

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"The developed countries must avoid a sterile triumphalism or a one-medicine-cures-all prescription, " Singapore Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong said at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) meeting in Bangkok last week.

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