UNDP staff will attend the Eighth Conference of Parliamentarians of the Arctic Region, Alaska USA, addressing health and climate change issues in the Arctic, including adaptation to climate change.

Ecological festival ‘Volcanoes of Kamchatka’, Kamchatka Krai. UNDP/GEF project ‘Demonstrating sustainable conservation of biological diversity in four protected areas of Russia’s Kamchatka Krai’

Round table on faith-based organisations work in the sphere of HIV/AIDS

UNITED NATIONS, New York, 10 July 2008 — More than 140 countries worldwide will observe World Population Day on 11 July by emphasizing the importance of family planning for the wellbeing of families, communities and nations, and by underlining the need to further integrate such services into national development plans.

Planned participation of UNDP delegation headed in the conference ‘Priorities and Specificities of the Development of Baikal Region’

Coordination meeting of the UN agencies in Russia to discuss practical modalities of joint participation in the Moscow International Book Fair (MIBF–2008) in September

“RUNNING a MUSEUM” UNESCO/ICOM Regional Training Workshop for the CIS countries museum professionals

Briefing by members of the Russian delegation to the Third Biennial Meeting on Small Arms and Light Weapons

International conference “Linguistic and Cultural Diversity in Cyberspace” to promote and develop policies aimed to strengthen linguistic and cultural diversity in the cyberspace of the Russian Federation and some of the CIS countries

Seminar “Environmental Ethics” in the framework of the two-week International Summer School “Environmental Ethics in University Education: Social and Human Sciences”