Commission on Population and Development, forty-first session (2008)

Agenda item 1

Election of officers

Agenda item 2

Provisional agenda (E/CN.9/2008/1)

Report on the Meetings of the Bureau of the Commission on Population and Development (E/CN.9/2008/2)

Note by the Secretariat containing the organization of work of the session (E/CN.9/2008/L.1)

Statement by Mr. Leo Merores, President, ECOSOC

Agenda item 3

Statement by Mr. Thomas Buettner, Assistant Director, Population Division

Report of the Secretary-General on world population monitoring, focusing on population distribution, urbanization, internal migration and development (E/CN.9/2008/3)

Corrigendum: Report of the Secretary-General on world population monitoring, focusing on population distribution, urbanization, internal migration and development  (E/CN.9/2008/3/Corr.1) English only]

Statement by Mr. Jose Miguel Guzman, Technical Support Division, UNFPA 

Report of the Secretary-General on monitoring of population programmes focusing on population distribution, urbanization, internal migration and development (E/CN.9/2008/4)

Statement by Ms. Ann Pawliczko, Population and Development Branch, UNFPA

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 (E/CN.9/2008/5)

Statement submitted by The International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), a non-governmental organization in consultative status with the Economic and Social Council (E/CN.9/2008/NGO/1)

Statement submitted by the World Youth Alliance, a nongovernmental organization in consultative status with the Economic and Social Council (E/CN.9/2008/NGO/2)

Statement submitted by Population Action International, a nongovernmental organization in roster consultative status with the Economic and Social Council (E/CN.9/2008/NGO/3)

Draft resolution submitted by the Chairman on the basis of informal consultations (E/CN.9/2008/L.4)

Keynote address

• Keynote statement by David Satterthwaite, International Institute for Environment and Development, United Kingdom, on Urbanization and internal migration: Their relevance for sustainable development (Monday, 7 April 2008, 3-4 p.m. EDT) [Presentation] [Text] 

Country statements

Bangladesh

Cuba

Holy See

Russian Federation

UN system statement

ESCAP

Agenda item 4

No official documentation

Keynote addresses

• Keynote statement by Mark Montgomery, Population Council, New York, on Urban growth and poverty (Tuesday, 8 April 2008, noon-1 p.m. EDT) [Presentation] 

• Keynote statement by Helen Zille, Mayor, Cape Town, South Africa, on Urban governance, lessons learned and challenges ahead: The example of Cape Town (Tuesday, 8 April 2008, 3-4 p.m. EDT) [Presentation] 

Country statements

Armenia

Austria

Belgium

Botswana

Brazil

Bulgaria

Canada

China

Cuba

European Union

Ghana

Group of 77 and China

India

Indonesia

Iran

Italy

Jamaica

Japan

Kazakhstan

Malaysia

Mexico

Morocco

Pakistan

Peru

Philippines

Poland

Portugal

Qatar

South Africa

Spain

Sri Lanka

Sweden

Switzerland

Uruguay

UN system statements

IGO/NGO statements

Agenda item 5

Statement by Mr. Armindo Miranda, Senior Population Affairs Officer, Office of the Director, Population Division

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 (E/CN.9/2008/6)

Proposed strategic framework for the period 2010-2011: Subprogramme 6, Population, of programme 7, Economic and Social Affairs (E/CN.9/2008/7)

Keynote address

• Keynote statement by Eduardo Moreno, UN-Habitat, Nairobi, on Improving the lives of urban slum-dwellers (Wednesday, 9 April 2008, noon-1 p.m. EDT) [Presentation] 

Country statements

UN system statements

Agenda item 6

Note by the Secretariat containing the provisional agenda for the forty-second session of the Commission (E/CN.9/2008/L.2)

Agenda item 7

Report of the Commission on its forty-first session (E/CN.9/2008/8 and E/2008/25) (English, French, Spanish)

Country statement

• Statement by Mr. Ivan Piperkov, Chairman, Forty-first Session of the Commission on Population and Development 

• Statement by Mr. Thomas Stelzer, Assistant-Secretary-General for Policy Coordination and Inter-Agency Affairs, Department of Economic and Social Affairs

• Statement by Ms. Hania Zlotnik, Director, United Nations Population Division

Side event

• Rethinking Policies for a Sustained Urban Future - A Special Side Event Organized by the Government of the Republic of Bulgaria, UNFPA and UN-Habitat

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