Meetings
The inter-governmental work is done at 5 levels of meetings:
- The UNCTAD Conference – held every four years:
- UNCTAD VIII in Cartagena, Colombia on 8–25 February 1992
- UNCTAD IX in Midrand, South Africa on 27 April – 11 May 1996
- UNCTAD X in Bangkok, Thailand on 12–19 February 2000
- UNCTAD XI in São Paulo, Brazil on 13–18 June 2004
- UNCTAD XII in Accra, Ghana on 21–25 April 2008
- UNCTAD XIII in Doha, Qatar on 21–26 April 2012
- The UNCTAD Trade and Development Board – the Board manages the work of UNCTAD in between two Conferences and meets up to three times every year;
- Four UNCTAD Commissions and one Working Party – these meet more often than the Board in order to take up policy, programme and budgetary issues;
- Expert Meetings – the Commissions will convene expert meetings on selected topics in order to provide substantive and expert input for Commission policy discussions.
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Famous quotes containing the word meetings:
“I have been reporting club meetings for four years and I am tired of hearing reviews of the books I was brought up on. I am tired of amateur performances at occasions announced to be for purposes either of enjoyment or improvement. I am tired of suffering under the pretense of acquiring culture. I am tired of hearing the word “culture” used so wantonly. I am tired of essays that let no guilty author escape quotation.”
—Josephine Woodward, U.S. author. As quoted in Everyone Was Brave, ch. 3, by William L. O’Neill (1969)
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—Madonna [Madonna Louise Ciccione] (b. 1959)