Tasnim | Masoud Shahrestani: The second round of High-Level Expert Consultation Session on Disaster Information Management kicked off in Tehran today and will continue through tomorrow. The two-day event is organized by the Asian and Pacific Centre for the Development of Disaster Information Management (APDIM), a regional institution of the United ...

IRNA The third meeting of the board of governors of Asian and Pacific Center for the Development of Disaster Information Management (APDIM) is to be held in the Iranian capital on December 18-19. APDIM, as the fifth center affiliated to ESCAP, will officially begin its activities in the Tehran meeting. In the two-day meeting, experts and high ...

IRNA Head of Iranian delegation at the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) conference Rashid Bayat Mokhtari on Monday described the US unfair economic sanctions illegal and called the world countries to prevent the US one-side measures against the Islamic Republic of Iran. Imposing illegal and one-sided sanctions against ...

February 1, The Iran Project - UN Under Secretary General Shamshad Akhtar arrived in Tehran on Jan. 30 to hold talks with senior Iranian officials on issues of mutual interests. While in Tehran she signed a MoU with Irans Head of the Plan and Budget Organization Mohammad-Baqer Nobakht on establishing Asian and Pacific Centre for the Development ...

IRNA Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in a meeting with UN Under Secretary General Shamshad Akhtar discussed regional issues. Asia and Pacific issues, like the importance of using regional capacities and the newly-emerging powers in the region for boosting cooperation in economy and infrastructures and promoting trade cooperation and ...

IRNA Iranian First Vice President Es'haq Jahangiri reiterated that all sanctions against Iran should be removed under the 2015 nuclear deal to help Tehran comply with its commitments for cooperation with the United Nations ESCAP in line with sustainable development. The nuclear deal officially known as Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) reached ...

Press TV- India is weighing the possibility of establishing a rail freight service which would connect the country to Iran and Turkey, New Delhi-based media say. The project is expected to bring about a major boost to trade and economic development of the Asia Pacific region, also involving Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, Pakistan and Afghanistan. The ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) Irans Vice-President Mohammad Baqer Nobakht conferred with a number of Indonesian high-ranking officials on the promotion of mutual cooperation. The Iranian vice-president is in Indonesia to attend a meeting of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP). Nobakht on Thursday held separate ...

Kuala Lumpur, April 27, IRNA Vice President and Head of Management and Planning Organization Mohammad Baqer Nobakht is to leave Tehran for Jakarta on Tuesday to attend the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific conference. This year ESCAP is to study grounds for meeting finical needs for development projects in Asia ...

By Xinhua TEHRAN, Nov. 12 (Xinhua) -- Iranian Foreign Minister Ali-Akbar Salehi said that Iran is ready to boost cooperation with the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) in the energy and transit sectors, Press TV reported on Monday. The Third Ministerial Conference of the ESCAP kicked off in Tehran ...

By Pakistan Observer TehranThe third international meeting of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific began here Sunday morning with the participation of some 62 states from Asia and the Pacific region. Located in Bangkok, Thailand, ESCAP or UNESCAP is the regional arm of the United Nations Secretariat for the Asian and Pacific ...