12 September

Union Minister for Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation U Ohn Win, who had been in New Delhi to attend the fourteenth session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD COP 14), first attended minister level meeting on 8 September.

He gave an opening remark at the meeting.

The meeting focused matters related to exchange of resources, technical skills and experiences among the developing countries, and ways to promote cooperation among them to tackle land degradation and desertification.

The Union Minister then attended the opening ceremony of the High-Level Segment (HLS) of the fourteenth session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD COP 14) at the India Expo Centre in New Delhi on 9 September.

He also joined the roundtable talk entitled “Land, Climate and Renewable Energy” and interactive dialogue entitled “Healthy land, healthy people.”

On 10 September, the Union Minister attended the high-level luncheon to launch the Peace Forest Initiative, which aims to support joint rehabilitation of degraded areas in post-conflict settings.

MNA (Translated by Kyaw Zin Tun)