Honourable Co-Chairs, Dr. Onischenko and Dr. Popova, dear colleagues, dear friends,

I am honoured to be in Moscow to open this important conference with my esteemed Co- Chairs, members of civil society and people living with HIV from across the region of eastern Europe and central Asia. I am pleased to join First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov and Minister of Health Veronika Skvortsova, who are the most senior officials of the Government of the Russian Federation to ever address the EECAAC conference.

Programming meeting to discuss ILO priorities in the subregion for 2014-2015

Lecture of UNIC Director on the 20th anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda at Gymnasium 1520 for school students from a number of Moscow secondary schools 

Retreat of partner universities on the Human Rights Masters' Programme development

Workshop ZDRAVCAMP on creation of ICT-based information materials on rare and incurable diseases. Organizers: Greenhouse for social technologies, in cooperation with UNESCO Moscow Office and UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education

UN Cares Orientation Session for UN personnel “Discussing controversial notions in HIV/AIDS field”

Launch of the INCB Annual Report 2013

At the meeting of the “Group of Friends” of the UN Disability Convention at the UN House on 27 February, the Cultural Centre “Bez Graniz” presented its new project, “Acropolis: How I’ve Found My Body”.

The project’s objectives are: