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The ECOSOC Financing for Development Ministerial Forum (28–29 April 2025) and the Fourth Preparatory Committee Meeting for the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (30 April–1 May 2025, New York) have concluded, marking another step forward in the global Financing for Development process. Greece was represented at both meetings by Ms. Eleni Nikolaidou, Deputy […]

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA) and the United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund (UN CERF) posted a thank you message for Greece’s contributions in 2024, which concerned the response to humanitarian crises in Ukraine and regions of the Middle East.

The UN Commission for Social Development convened its sixty-third session (CSocD63) from 10 to 14 February 2025. under the priority theme of “Strengthening solidarity, social inclusion and social cohesion to accelerate the delivery of the commitments of the Copenhagen Declaration on Social Development and Programme of Action of the World Summit for Social Development as

In view of this year’s United Nations High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (UN HLPF) in July 2024 and following the submission of Voluntary National Commitments on behalf of Greece during the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Summit in September 2023 (UN 2023 SDG Summit), Greece presented the UN with an update on its progress

At the “Forum on Financing for Development 2024″ organised by the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), in New York, on April 22-25, 2024, Greece was represented by the Secretary General for International Economic Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and President of Enterprise Greece, Ms. Myra Myrogianni. The Greek intervention at the

Ms Eleni Nikolaidou, Director of Development Cooperation Policy of Hellenic Aid was invited by the Under-Secretary-General  of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) Mr.  LI Junhua,  to participate as a speaker in the High Level Panel discussion on the priority theme of the 62nd session of the Commission for Social Development (CSocD62),

Sustainable development prospects continue to diverge between developed and developing countries. The 2023 Financing for Sustainable Development Report finds that SDG financing needs are growing, but development financing is not keeping pace. The war in Ukraine, sharp increases in food and energy prices, and rapidly tightening financial conditions have increased hunger and poverty and reversed