Operating procedures will be defined and the location of the IPBES secretariat decided at this meeting.

UNESCO: OFFICE IN DHAKA

And inside the plush meeting room of their peace secretariat, international envoys would sip tea with S. P.

ECONOMIST: Sri Lanka's war

Building on USAID technical assistance working with the ASEAN Senior Officials Meeting on Youth (SOMY) and ASEAN Secretariat, the U.S. government will continue to support the launch of the AYVP in 2013.

WHITEHOUSE: Joint Statement of the 4th ASEAN-U.S. Leaders' Meeting

Later that day, Irina Bokova participated in a meeting of the 10 UN entities together with UNAIDS secretariat to revitalize global momentum around AIDS and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

Chairpersons and responsible representatives of IHP National Committees from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan attended the meeting together with the representatives of the UNESCO IHP Secretariat and the CIS Executive Committee, scientists from the State Hydrological Institute, State Oceanographic Institute, Arctic and Antarctic Institute, Russian State Hydrometeorological University and Institute of Water Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

UNESCO: CIS countries discussed their involvement in the UNESCO International Hydrological Programme | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

The CBD Secretariat and the Global Environment Facility are working to ensure that the first meeting of the governing body of this historic instrument will take place in India in October 2012 back-to-back with CBD COP11.

FORBES: The Future of Life On Earth: Part Two Of The Discussion