[UgaBYTES] The Sudan has become UN-ESCWA's 14th member country.

[nabil eid]

*The Sudan has become UN-ESCWA's 14th member country.*

The Sudan has recently acceded to the membership of the UN Economic and
Social Commission for Western Asia (UN-ESCWA). The Commission has thus come
to include 14 member countries. The accession comes in response to the
request of the Sudan and the recommendation of the UN-ESCWA 25th Ministerial
Session held in Sana'a, Yemen on 26-29 May 2008.

The UN Economic and Social Council approved the request by the Sudan to be
admitted to membership in the Commission. The United Nations does not
proscribe a member of one regional commission from being at the same time a
member of another regional commission. Furthermore, most of the other
regional commissions have as members countries that are not located in the
region that they serve.

For his part, UN-ESCWA Executive Secretary, Bader Omar AlDafa, considered
that the accession of new members to UN-ESCWA further upholds its position
as a regional arm of the UN, and a forum for expertise concerned with the
region.

UN-ESCWA thus includes: Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman,
Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the Syrian Arab Republic, the Sudan, United
Arab Emirates and Yemen.



Source: UN-ESCWA
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Nabil Eid
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