Full Coverage: International Cooperation

31.03.2006 United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) director general Kandeh K Yumkella, in his discussions with commerce and industry minister Kamal Nath, decided to set up a South-South Cooperation Centre in India for dissemination of technological know-how and best practices among developing countries.

30.03.2006 ADB is undertaking an innovative project that will help the most disadvantaged households in Nepal to effectively participate in and benefit from rural development projects through a US$685,000 technical assistance grant.

30.03.2006 The debate is still on. To reduce poverty, should we use redistributive policies like taxation or accelerate growth so that the trickle down effect does the job? It is now clear that neither, by itself, is sufficient to eliminate poverty whether we look at the issue at the international level or at the level of a particular country or region.

28.03.2006 The Pakistan-India Joint Study Group (JSG) on decided to ink a Mutual Recognition Agreement (MRA) to facilitate bilateral trade.Under the agreement, both countries will accept each other’s laboratory reports on industrial goods as well as agricultural products. They will also accept the findings and reports on technical issues for resolving bilateral trade issues.

28.03.2006 As part of its efforts to strengthen Nepal's educational infrastructure, India will provide a grant assistance of USD 300,000 for construction of a campus building in the western district of Tanahun.

28.03.2006 WASHINGTON, D.C., Mar 27 (OneWorld) - Arab leaders must press Sudan's government to let the United Nations take charge of peacekeeping in Darfur, the oil-rich country's war-wrecked western region, Arab and Western human rights advocates said in advance of regional talks starting Tuesday.

27.03.2006 The world is busy exploring ways to tap the economic opportunities China and India, two countries emerging to be the world’s economic and technological hubs, offer. But Nepal’s ruling elites, as always, are engaged in alliance formations, in the politics of blaming and in playing these two countries on and off against each other without any regard to the nation and its people.

27.03.2006 The third round of talks between India and Pakistan on economic and commercial cooperation begins. There is uncertainty over whether Pakistan is ready to extend the South Asia Free Trade Agreement (SAFTA) to India.

27.03.2006 While a buzz of excitement surrounds the World Social Forum, now underway in the Pakistani city of Karachi, veteran activists and political scientists here are having reservations over the regional approach to the global event, with some even unaware it was taking place.

25.03.2006 WASHINGTON, D.C., Mar 24 (OneWorld) - UN peacekeepers serve the national interest at a fraction of the cost of direct U.S. military intervention overseas, according to advocates pressing Congress to fund America's full share of the blue helmets' budget.

23.03.2006 The first meeting of Safta Ministerial Council of Commerce Ministers is proposed to be held here on April 20 to take measures for making operational the South Asian Free Trade Area that has been given legal effect since this January. For the council meeting the spadework will be done by the Safta Committee of Experts (COE), meeting on April

23.03.2006 Bangladesh urged India to dismantle trade barriers and allow preferential duty free exports to boost trade between the two countries.Begam Khaleda Zia,on a three-day India visit, expressed concern over the wide trade gap between India and Bangladesh

22.03.2006 GONG civil organization, together with 17 other NGOs from Central and Eastern Europe and NIS (Newly Independent States), and under the auspices of ENEMO-European Network of Election Monitoring Organizations, will participate in the monitoring mission of the Parliamentary Elections in the Ukraine.

21.03.2006 The first round of consultations with different interest groups in Kosovo during which security sector needs in Kosovo are assessed is now completed – announced Anthony Welch, the OSSR Coordinator during a press briefing held on 13 March, 2006.

21.03.2006 The Directors of national and university libraries from B&H, Serbia, Slovenia, Montenegro and Macedonia, signed the joint Strategy for Quicker Access to New European Library, accelerated digitalization of valuable texts and increased exchange of experience and information under the auspices of the KOBIS Electronic Network for Library Data.

20.03.2006 Kenya and other African countries are beginning to sour on the edicts laid down by their Western allies, looking instead China to help them grow economically and politically, some analysts are saying.

20.03.2006 “The leaders of South Asian countries are now committed to reduce poverty in a participatory manner, provide food security, guarantee livelihood, improve health care, ensure quality education and enhance environmental security,” Morshed Khan said while launching the goals in Dhaka on Thursday.

17.03.2006 In an emotional speech interrupted by 12 standing ovations, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf recounted the civil war that decimated her country, thanked Congress for their support in ending the bloody conflict, and appealed to the U.S. to help rebuild Liberia--a country bound to the U.S. by shared history and values.

10.03.2006 A new emergency response fund--called "the most important qualitative step forward we have taken since 1991"--was launched at the UN Thursday. Already over half-funded, it has begun to support Kenya's drought-affected and Cote d'Ivoire's largely forgotten suffering population.

10.03.2006 President Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam today called for greater co-operation in the fields of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) between India and Myanmar.