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Kenya set to host key meeting on sustainable urban development

Xinhua, May 5, 2017 Adjust font size:

Senior government and UN officials from across the world are due to meet in Nairobi from Monday to discuss ways of accelerating sustainable urban development, the UN-housing agency said on Friday.

Delegates who will attend the 26th Session of the United Nation's Human Settlement Programme (UN-Habitat) Governing Council will also deliberate the climate change and its impact on cities.

"The Governing Council will be attended by government ministers, senior officials and other representatives of governments making up the Council as well as UN-Habitat partners who will deliberate on these issues as well as climate change and its impact on cities," UN-Habitat said in a statement issued in Nairobi.

The Governing Council meets every two years to examine UN-Habitat's work plan for the coming biennial.

It is a high-level forum of governments at the ministerial level during which policy guidelines and the organization's budget are established for the next two-year period.

Following the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development in Quito in October 2016, the theme of this Governing Council is opportunities for the effective implementation of the New Urban Agenda. Endit