Mongolia represented at UNESCAP committee session

Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, /MONTSAME/ A second session of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific's (UNESCAP) Committee on Social Development ran October 19-21 in Bangkok city, Thailand.

This year's meeting has brought together 26 regional organizations and national NGOs. They have discussed actions that have been running in Asia-Pacific in social welfare including protection of the disabled and urgent problems facing some matters. The issues have been raised as well concerning an implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) in the region.

The gathered have exchanged information and experiences in measures taken for social welfare, reflecting matters of the disabled in the economic, social developmental strategies and policies, in realizing the CRPD which joins 20 countries in Asia-Pacific. After considering matters on creating a mechanism of connecting national laws to the CRPD and on improvement of regional information database, they have requested the ESCAP to support the regional collaboration in the above issues.

An opening took place for a campaign called "Let's realize the rights" during the meeting with an aim to accelerate the CRPD's implementation.

Mongolia has been represented there by a delegation headed by D.Bayarsaikhan, a head of the Labor and Welfare Service Department of the Ministry of Social Welfare and Labor. The Mongolian side has introduced the gathered to the governmental activities towards the disabled and actions taken in a scope of the CRPD, and then have spoken about difficulties as well as challenges in training staffers, money raising, connecting organizations for the disabled.

The meeting discussed a preparation for inter-governmental summit meeting to run for concluding the Asia-Pacific Decade in 2003-2012, and has decided to have it October of 2012 in Incheon city, the South Korea.

A decision has been made by the meeting to start the next decade for the persons with disabilities and to hold the 3rd ESCAP's committee session in 2014.

Results of the second session will be submitted to the 67th Session of the UNESCAP that will run under a
theme "Long-term future of Asia-Pacific Social Welfare and Development after the crisis".

B.Khuder

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