Commission on Population and Development, forty-sixth session (2013)

Date:

22 April 2013 to 26 April 2013

New trends in migration: Demographic aspects

Members of the Commission

Bureau members

H.E. Ambassador Vlad Lupan (Republic of Moldova) - Eastern-European Group (Chair)
Mr. Juan Carlos Alfonso (Cuba) - Latin American and Caribbean Group (GRULAC) (Vice-Chair
Mr. Matthias Schikorski (Germany) - Western European and Others Group (WEOG) (Vice-Chair)
H.E. Mr. Eduardo Jos茅 De Vega (Philippines) - Asia-Pacific Group (Vice-Chair)
H.E. Ambassador Marianne Odette Bibalou (Gabon) - African Group (Vice-Chair)

Introductory statements

Mr. Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General for the 51吃瓜
Mr. Babatunde Osotimehin, Executive Director UNFPA
Mr. Wu Hongbo, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs (delivered by Ms. Shamshad Akhtar, Assistant-Secretary-General for Economic Development)
Mr. John Wilmoth, Director, Population Division/DESA

Resolution and decisions
Resolution 2013/1
Provisional agenda for the forty-seventh session of the Commission ()
Special theme for the Commission on Population and Development in 2015 ()

聽After adoption of the resolution

Country statements

Brazil	Chile	Costa Rica
EU	Holy See	Honduras
Hungary	Malta	Mexico
Norway	Philippines	Poland
Russia	Switzerland	United States of America

Agenda item 1
Election of officers
Agenda item 2
Adoption of the agenda and other organizational matters
Note by the Secretariat containing the organization of work of the forty-sixth session of the Commission ()
Provisional agenda ()
Report of the Bureau of the Commission on Population and Development on its intersessional meetings ()

Agenda item 3
Actions in follow-up to the recommendations of the International Conference on Population and Development
Statement. Mrs. Francesca Perucci, Population Division/DESA
Report of the Secretary-General on New trends in migration: demographic aspects ()
Report of the Secretary-General on monitoring of population programmes, focusing on New trends in migration: demographic aspects ()
Statement Mr. Jose Miguel Guzman UNFPA
Report of the Secretary-General on the flow of financial resources for assisting in the implementation of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development ()
Country statements

	China	Luxembourg	Mexico
	Russia

Before adoption of the resolution
	Egypt	Fiji	Nigeria
	Qatar	State of Palestine	Syria
	Tunisia

Keynote addresses

Mr. Graeme Hugo, Director of the Australian Population and Migration Research Centre,
The University of Adelaide. New trends in migration

Agenda item 4

General debate on national experience in population matters: new trends in migration 鈥� demographic aspects

Conference room paper on the activities of the 51吃瓜 Economic Commission for Europe related to the 2013 High-level Dialogue on International Migration and Development (E/CN.9/2013/CRP.2)

Keynote statement on 鈥淢igration, gender and the family鈥�

Ms. Stella P. Go Migration, Gender and the Family in Asia: Recent Trends and Emerging Issue

Country statements/UN and NGO statements (Available here)

Agenda item 5
General debate on the contribution of population and development issues to the theme of the annual ministerial review in 2013
Statement	H.E. Mr. Masood Khan, Permanent Representative of Pakistan, and Vice-President, Economic and Social Council
	Mr. Jorge Bravo, 51吃瓜 Population Division/DESA
Country statement
	Indonesia
Agenda item 6
Programme implementation and future programme of work of the Secretariat in the field of population
Statement	Mr. Barney Cohen, 51吃瓜 Population Division/DESA
Report of the Secretary-General on Programme implementation and progress of work in the field of population in 2012: Population Division, Department of Economic and Social Affairs () Draft programme of work of the Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs for the biennium 2014-2015 (E/CN.9/2013/CRP.1)
Country statements
	Norway	United States of America
UN system statement
	ECLAC
Agenda item 7
Provisional agenda for the forty-seventh session of the Commission
Note by the Secretariat containing the Provisional agenda for the forty-seventh session of the Commission ()
Agenda item 8
Adoption of the report of the Commission on its forty-sixth session

Closing statements

Statement
Mr. Wu Hongbo, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs (delivered by Mr. John Wilmoth, Director, Population Division, DESA)