Bahrain to attend forum in New York

Manama, July 4(BNA): The Third High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF 3) will be held under the auspices of the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) in New York on July 6-9. Social Development Minister Faeqa bint Said Al-Saleh will lead Bahrain’s delegation to the symposium, scheduled to be held under the theme "'Strengthening integration, implementation and review - the HLPF after 2015'. The delegation will present "Bahrain’s Document", a declaration endorsed at the High-level Arab Forum on Sustainable Development which was held last May in Manama under the patronage of His Royal Highness Prime Minister Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al-Khalifa. The Kingdom of Bahrain organized the pan-Arab forum in cooperation with the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (UN-ESCWA), the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Arab League. Al-Saleh stressed the crucial importance of taking part in the forthcoming forum to convey the opinion of the Arab group to the world through the Bahrain's declaration. She said that the participation in the global symposium would further consolidate Bahrain’s standing on the international economic and political map. "The Third High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF 3) is crucial as it convenes ahead of The Third International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD), which will take place on 13-16 July 2015, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The minister headed to New York, leading a high-level delegation which includes officials the foreign ministry, the Supreme Council for the Environment, the Central Informatics Organisation (CIO) and the Social Development Ministry.