On February 14, 2025, the next meeting of the members of the ESCAPO Statistical Bureau was held.
The meeting was attended by the agency staff led by the Deputy Director of the Statistical Agency, Ziyayev Zohidjon Muratovich, as well as Ms. Rachel Beaven, Director of the ESCAPO Statistical Department, Ms. Rikke Munk Hansen, Chief of the UN ESCAPO Economic and Environmental Statistics Department, Mr. En Chuan Koch, Chairman of the ESCAPO Statistical Bureau (Singapore), Mr. Jiangchun Ruan (People's Republic of China), Oljaz Toleuov (Kazakhstan), Arita Tekayeti (Kiribati), and Aishath Hassan (Maldives).
It is recalled that the previous composition of the Bureau of Statistics was elected at the 9th session of the ESCAP Statistical Committee held in Bangkok, Thailand, in December 2024. The Director of the Statistical Agency under the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan was re-elected as Deputy Chairman of the Bureau.
On the agenda of the meeting, the participants considered the implementation of the decisions of the Statistical Committee of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, including a report on the work of the DASH activist groups, planning the participation of the ESCAP Statistical Bureau in the upcoming 56th session of the UN Statistical Commission, and other issues.
During the meeting, all members of the Bureau expressed their proposals and made some recommendations on the issues on the agenda.
The parties agreed to continue mutual consultations and decided to submit proposals to the UN Statistical Commission Secretariat for consideration.