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UN forum hears calls for health investments in Asia-Pacific region

22 May 2007
Ministers from across the Asia-Pacific region – where relative wealth has not translated into health investments – today heard calls at a United Nations meeting in Kazakhstan for more government spending on medical care in order to combat poverty.
President of Kazakhstan opens Meeting

Asia-Pacific region crucial in global fight against poverty: Ban Ki-moon

21 May 2007
The Asia-Pacific region – with most of the world’s people and some of its fastest-growing economies – is crucial to meeting global anti-poverty targets, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today told regional leaders meeting in Kazakhstan.
63rd Commission Session, Almaty

Diversification in Central Asia is focus of UN-sponsored business forum

18 May 2007
With the economies of Central Asia hurtling forward but tied to a single sector, some 300 business leaders and policymakers gathered today for a United Nations-sponsored forum in Almaty, Kazakhstan, to discuss diversification and international competitiveness.