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The Eighth Session of the Committee on Food Security and Sustainable Development (CFSSD-8) and the Africa Regional Implementation Meeting for the Twentieth Session of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD-20) opened at the United Nations Conference Centre (UNCC) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Monday 19 November 2012. The meeting, organized in collaboration with the African Union Commission (AUC), the African Development Bank (AfDB) and the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) provides, inter alia, a platform for the Africa Regional Implementation Meeting (Africa-RIM) to discuss and adopt an Outcome Document to serve as Africa’s collective input to CSD-20, focusing on the main outcomes of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20).
The session was opened by Ambassador Lazare Makayat Safouesse, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), who was elected Chair of the CFSSD-8 Bureau. In opening statements, Josué Didoné, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), underlined the strategic opportunity of the meeting to deliberate on Africa’s priorities for the post-2015 development agenda. Federica Pietracci, Division for Sustainable Development, UNDESA, outlined a number of initiatives at the UN to take forward outcomes from Rio+20. Lamin G. Barrow, AfDB, underlined the need for broad-based and inclusive growth in Africa, noting youth unemployment and likely constraints on translating growth into poverty reduction and achieving the MDGs.
Delegates will continue to meet in a plenary Tuesday and in a working group to begin consideration of the Africa RIM Outcome Document for CSD-20.
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