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Redefining S-S Cooperation: Africa on the Centre Stage

Workshop on Environmental Change in sub-Saharan Africa

Third IBSA Summit Academic Forum

WTO Public Forum 2008: Trading into the Future

20th Annual Meeting of Senior Officials of the Group of 77

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2008 South-South Cooperation Gold award to Ambassador Nasser Abdulaziz Al-Nasser of Qatar

Naseer Group of 77 confers the 2008 South-South Cooperation Gold award to Ambassador Nasser Abdulaziz Al-Nasser, Permanent Representative of Qatar and chairman of the UN High Level Committee on South-South Cooperation.

The Silver and Bronze awards was conferred on Kemal Dervis, Administrator of the UN Development Programme (UNDP) and chair of the UN Development Group; and Mourad Ahmia, Executive Secretary of the Office of the chairman of the Group of 77.

Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer conferred the United Nations Millennium Award 2008

Antigua and Barbuda’s Prime Minister, Baldwin Spencer was awarded the United Nations 2008 Millennium Development Goals (MDG) Award on 26th September.

“In all modesty, I stand here today very much honoured to have been chosen as the 2008 recipient of MDG Achievement Award and feel very proud to contribute in the course of cooperation and development of the south,” Spencer said upon receipt of the Award.

Debapriya Bhattacharya heads UNCTAD's Trade and Development Board

Ambassador Debapriya Bhattacharya, Permanent Representative of Bangladesh in Geneva, was unanimously elected president of the Trade and Development Board (TDB) of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (Unctad) for one year on 15 September 2008.

Sudan elected to chair Group of 77 and China for 2009

27 September 2008: Sudan was elected to chair the Group of 77 and China (G77) at a meeting held last night on the sidelines of the 63rd session of the United Nation General Assembly.

The Group of 77 is the largest intergovernmental organization of developing states in the United Nations and aims to articulate and promote the collective economic interests and enhance the joint negotiating capacity of its member states during negotiations at the United Nations.

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