UNITED NATIONS POPULATION INFORMATION NETWORK (POPIN) UN Population Division, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, with support from the UN Population Fund (UNFPA)

Europe & North America

European and North American Nations to Convene Population Conference



 The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (ECE), the Council of 

Europe and UNFPA will join forces from 23 to 26 March 1993 in Geneva, 

Switzerland to convene the 1993 European Population Conference. This 

intergovernmental conference, which will examine the most significant 

demographic issues facing the ECE region, which includes both Europe and 

North America, is part of the important preparatory process for the 

International Conference on Population and Development, 1994.



The Conference will include delegates from Member States of ECE and the 

Council of Europe. Other Member States of the United Nations, organizations 

and agencies of the United Nations system, the European Community, 

international and regional organizations, non-governmental organizations, as 

well as a small number of individual experts, will also be invited.



Objectives of the Conference are: (1) to review, examine and analyse key 

population-related issues in countries of the region; (2) to evaluate the 

implementation of population-related policies in those countries; and (3) to 

prepare a set of recommendations addressing key issues and policies in the 

ECE region. The recommendations will be submitted as the ECE contribution to 

the International Conference on Population and Development, 1994.



The agenda comprises international migration, fertility and the family, 

health and mortality, population growth and age structure, and international 

cooperation in the field of population.



The final session of the Conference will be devoted to the adoption of a 

formal report of the proceedings and conclusions and recommendations for the 

1994 International Conference.



An ad hoc intergovernmental preparatory meeting was convened from 3 to 4 

November 1992 in Strasbourg, France, to prepare for the regional conference.