DUSHANBE, November 30, Asia-Plus – A new strategy of population and development was considered at the Third International Parliamentarians’ Conference on the Implementation of the ICPD Program Action (IPCI/ICPD) in Bangkok, Thailand, from November 21-22.
Academician Mamadsho Ilolov, the President of Tajikistan’s National Academy of Sciences also Chairman of the Majlisi Millie (Tajikistan’s upper chamber of parliament) Committee for Social Matters, Science, Education, Health, Culture and Youth Police, represented Tajikistan at this conference.
More than 550 representatives from 100 countries across the world attended the conference.
According to Ilolov, the event, organized by the Asian Forum of Parliamentarians on Population and Development (AFPPD) and UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, considered of the progress made by parliamentarians since 1994 Cairo ICPD. It also agreed on a common strategy towards meeting the 2015 deadline set for achieving the ICPD goals and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
UNFPA, in collaboration with the four regional parliamentary groups on population and development [AFPPD, Inter-European Parliamentary Forum on Population and Development (IEPFPD), Forum of African and Arab Parliamentarians on Population and Development (FAAPPD) and Inter-American Parliamentary Group on Population and Development (IAPG)] has conducted a global survey with parliamentarians from both developed and developing countries to assess the progress they have made in implementing the ICPD. The results of the survey form the basis for discussion at the conference.
Telling the conference, Ilolov dwelled on the issues of family planning, mother and child health conditions and labor migration in Tajikistan.
The conference resulted in adoption of a statement forward-looking declaration.
