RI to host 6th EAP Ministerial meeting

RI to host 6th EAP Ministerial meeting

JAKARTA: The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) named
Indonesia as the host of its sixth East Asia and Pacific (EAP)
Ministerial Consultation meeting next month.

The meeting will discuss ways to improve children's welfare in
the East Asia-Pacific region for the coming decade. Bali will
host the meeting from May 5 through May 7.

"What the EAP agree to in Bali, the consensus, will form the
basis for UNICEF's efforts in Indonesia and throughout the
region," UNICEF said in a statement on Monday.

It said the meeting would focus on four development issues
facing the region: nutrition, maternal and neonatal mortality,
commercial sexual exploitation of children and trafficking, and
HIV/AIDS.

UNICEF has voiced concern over Indonesia's poor record in each
of the four issues.

President Megawati Soekarnoputri will open the meeting and
Minister of Health Achmad Sujudi will deliver the keynote speech.
--JP