Before the meeting, Peter Morgan, who was due to chair the session, said residents did not think that the 28-day consultation period gave them enough time to counter the proposals.
Mr Elliott took the chair after the session with the ministers had concluded, commenting that he had been to a funeral.
Wendy Watson-Wright, Assistant Director General and Executive Secretary, UNESCO Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, will chair the opening session and participate in the regional working group for the North and Central Pacific.
The chair of the session, the former UK prime minister Gordon Brown, said the continent needed billions of dollars of investment in infrastructure, but red tape and cross-border problems were getting in the way.
The elected chair of this first session, Danielle Mazzonis, noted in her closing remarks that the Scientific Council is off to a good start and the Council affirmed its readiness to help the Office fine-tune its strategy for addressing the challenges in the region, taking into consideration the current financial constraints that UNESCO finds itself in.
At Mr Lansley's weekly Commons question session, Natascha Engel, the Labour MP and chair of the backbench business committee, welcomed the new threshold, highlighting the "important" role e-petitions had played in helping campaigners uncover the truth about the 1989 Hillsborough stadium disaster.
At the height of the political row around the organisation, PAC chair Darren Millar had asked, during the Assembly's plenary session, whether Awema had "run its course".
She will hold a number of bilateral meetings, including with the President of the 67th Session of the UN General Assembly Mr Vuk Jeremic, Dr Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, new chair of the African Union, and Ms Leila Zerrougui, UN Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict.
Valerie Jarrett, Senior Advisor to the President and Chair of the White House Council on Women and Girls, will participate in a session of White House Office Hours to answers your questions about the Violence Against Women Act on Twitter.
The Environment Food and Rural Affairs Committee hold their second session of the week on the outcome of the Farming Regulation Task Force - having heard from the task force chair on Tuesday, the interested parties duke it out on Wednesday.
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