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Asia Pacific Ministerial
Conference to focus on Infrastructure
New Delhi, December 09, 2006
Housing Ministers, High Commissioners and Ambassadors from
69 Asia Pacific countries including India are meeting in New
Delhi on Wednesday in the first Asia Pacific Ministerial
Conference on Housing and Human Settlements being held from 13
th to 16th December 2006.
The four-day Meet will discuss issues relating to pro poor
urban governance and planning, water and sanitation, slum
upgradation, urbanization and financial matters. The
conference, being attended by about 500 delegates from India
and abroad, will focus on the challenges of urbanization,
housing and habitat management, urban poverty and slum
development.
The countries will debate to develop strategies and
policies for habitat development and to share and exchange
knowledge on land and housing besides poverty alleviation
issues. The participants also include mayors, representatives
of local authorities, and non-governmental organizations of
the Asia Pacific Region.
The theme of the conference is " a vision for sustainable
urbanization in the Asia-Pacific by 2020. It aims at
galvanising governmental action and political commitment to
improve the lives of slum dwellers. The Meet is expected to
generate creative dialogue on measures to implement effective
and sustainable urbanization policies in the light of rapid
economic growth.
The participating countries include Mangolia, Malaysia,
Bhutan, Maldives, Brunei, Armenia, Fiji, Nepal, Afghanistan,
Cambodia, Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, Sri Lanka, China,
Vietnam, Oman, Qatar, Cyprus, Bahrain, Timor-Leste, Iran,
Tuvalu, Jordan, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Samoa,
Pakistan, Japan, Turkey, Indonesia, Yemen, India and others.
The conference will also adopt the draft framework for
action and the Delhi declaration.
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