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Workshop Brief
DATE AND VENUE
- Date: 13-15 October 2004 (Wednesday to Friday)
- Venue: United Nations Conference Centre (UNCC)
Address:
Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN ESCAP)
The United Nations Building
Rajadamnern Nok Avenue
Bangkok 10200, Thailand
Opening session
The Workshop will be inaugurated at 0800 hours on 14 October 2004, in
the Conference Room 4, United Nations Conference Centre (UNCC). Please
refer to the detailed provisional agenda and programme or work on specific
information on subsequent sessions.
Registration and identification badges
Those who participate only in this Workshop are requested to register and
obtain meeting badges during the Workshop coffee break. Those who
participate in this Workshop and UNESCAP/APDF Workshop on Regional Follow-up
to the Third and Fourth Sessions of the Ad Hoc Committee on a Comprehensive
and Integral International Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the
Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities, (to be held from 11 to 12
October 2004), can register on 11 October 2004 between 0800 and 0845 hours
at Registration Counter, located on the ground floor, UNCC.
For identification and security reasons, all participants are requested
to wear the meeting badges at all times during the meeting, at social
functions and in the United Nations Complex.
Working language of the meeting
The Meeting will be conducted in English and all documentation will be
in English. No interpretation will be available.
Documentation
Participants are requested to bring a complete set of the documents
uploaded to the home page address,
http://www.worldenable.net/bmf2004/materials.htm by downloading and
printing, prior to the Workshop, as only limited copies of such documents
will be available at the meeting venue. For blind participants, html
formatted working documents in a floppy disc will be distributed at the
beginning of the Workshop.
Financial and administrative arrangements
Participants who are fully sponsored by UNESCAP will be provided with a
round trip, economy class ticket, by the most direct route between your
city of work and Bangkok, and per diem at the prevailing United Nations
rate. The per diem will be provided during the second day of the Workshop
in local currency, and is intended to cover expenses during the stay in
Bangkok, including hotel bills, dinners and other miscellaneous expenses
such as exit taxes. Kindly note that UNESCAP will not assume
responsibility for the following, under any circumstances:
- All expenses in the home country incidental to travel abroad,
including expenditure for visa, medical examination, inoculations and
other such miscellaneous items and internal travel to and from the airport
of arrival and departure in the home country;
- Salary and related allowances for the participants during the period
of the Workshop;
- Costs incurred by participants in respect of travel insurance,
accident insurance, medical or dental bills or hospitalization fees in
connection with their attending the Workshop;
- Compensation in the event of death or disability of participants in
connection with their attending the Workshop;
- Any loss or damage to personal property of participants while
attending the Workshop or losses or damages claimed by third parties as a
result of negligence on the part of the participants;
- Any other expenses of a personal nature, not directly related to the
purpose of the Workshop.
Contacts with the UNESCAP secretariat
The address of the UNESCAP secretariat is as follows:
Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific The United
Nations Building
Rajadamnern Nok Avenue
Bangkok 10200, Thailand
Tel: (66 2) 288-2315 (direct), 288-1481 (direct), 288-1234 (switchboard)
Fax: (66 2) 288-1030
E-mail: akiyama @ un.org or nagata @ un.org
For additional information, participants may contact the secretariat of
this Workshop, Ms Aiko Akiyama or Ms Kay Nagata, Social Affairs Officer,
Population and Social Integration Section, Emerging Social Issues at
above-mentioned contact details.
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