Forty-first session (7 - 11 April 2008)

Theme: Population distribution, urbanization, internal migration and development

Source: UN Photo, DPI

Keynote addresses

Official documentation and introductory statements

Statement:  Sha Zukang, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs

Statement:  Thoraya Ahmed Obaid, Executive Director, United Nations Population Fund

Statement:  Hania Zlotnik, Director, Population Division

Agenda Item 2

Statement:  Leo Merores, President, ECOSOC

• E/CN.9/2008/1 - Provisional agenda
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• E/CN.9/2008/2 - Report on the meetings of the Bureau of the Commission on Population and Development
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• E/CN.9/2008/L.1 - Note by the Secretariat containing the organization of the work of the session
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Agenda Item 3

Statement:  Thomas Buettner, Assistant Director, Population Division

• E/CN.9/2008/3 - Report of the Secretary-General on world population monitoring, focusing on population distribution, urbanization, internal migration and development
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  E/CN.9/2008/3/Corr.1 - Corrigendum: Report of the Secretary-General on world population monitoring, focusing on population distribution, urbanization, internal migration and development
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  Statement:  Jose Miguel Guzman, Technical Support Division, UNFPA
  
  
• E/CN.9/2008/4 - Report of the Secretary-General on monitoring of population programmes focusing on population distribution, urbanization, internal migration and development
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  Statement:  Ann Pawliczko, Population and Development Branch, UNFPA
  
  
• E/CN.9/2008/5 - Report of the Secretary-General on the flow of financial resources for assisting in the implementation of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development
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• E/CN.9/2008/NGO/1 - Statement submitted by The International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), a non-governmental organization in consultative status with the Economic and Social Council
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• E/CN.9/2008/NGO/2 - Statement submitted by the World Youth Alliance, a nongovernmental organization in consultative status with the Economic and Social Council
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• E/CN.9/2008/NGO/3 - Statement submitted by Population Action International, a nongovernmental
  organization in roster consultative status with the Economic and Social Council
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• E/CN.9/2008/L.4 - Draft resolution submitted by the Chairman on the basis of informal consultations
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Agenda Item 4

Agenda Item 5

Statement:  Armindo Miranda, Senior Population Affairs Officer, Office of the Director, Population Division

• E/CN.9/2008/6 - Report of the Secretary-General on Programme implementation and progress of work in the field of population in 2007: Population Division, Department of Economic and Social Affairs
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• E/CN.9/2008/7 - Proposed strategic framework for the period 2010-2011: Subprogramme 6, Population, of programme 7, Economic and social affairs
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Agenda Item 6

• E/CN.9/2008/L.2 - Note by the Secretariat containing the provisional agenda for the forty-second session of the Commission
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Agenda Item 7

• E/CN.9/2008/8
  E/2008/25 - Report of the Commission on its forty-first session
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• Resolutions and Decisions adopted by the Commission on its forty-first session
  

 

E/CN.9/2008/INF/1 - List of delegations
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E/CN.9/2008/INF/1/Add.1 - List of delegations
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Country Statements

	Armenia	Japan
	Austria	Kazakhstan
	Bangladesh	Malaysia
	Belgium	Mexico
	Botswana	Morocco
	Brazil	Norway
	Bulgaria	Pakistan
	Canada	Philippines
	China	Poland
	on Agenda Item 3	Portugal
	on Agenda Item 4	Qatar
	Cuba	Russian Federation
	European Union	South Africa
	Ghana	Spain
	Group of 77 and China	Sri Lanka
	Holy See	Sweden
	India	Switzerland
	Indonesia	Uruguay
	on Agenda Item 3	USA
	on Agenda Item 4	on Agenda Item 5
	Iran	on Agenda Item 7
	Italy

UN system statements

	CELADE	ESCWA
	on Agenda Item 4	on Agenda Item 4
	on Agenda Item 5	on Agenda Item 5
	ESCAP
	on Agenda Item 3
	on Agenda Item 5

IGO/NGO Statements

AARP

IOM

IPPF

Closing Statements

Statement:  Ivan Piperkov, Chairman, Commission on Population and Development

Statement:  Thomas Stelzer, Assistant-Secretary-General for Policy Coordination and Inter-Agency Affairs, Department of Economic and Social Affairs

Statement:  Hania Zlotnik, Director, Population Division

Side events