Vice president of the United Nations (UN) Ken Kanda said on the High-Level Forum on South-South Cooperation for Sustainable Development that South-South cooperation (SSC) has yet achieved any concrete result.
South-South cooperation (SSC) has moved from strength to strength and is now an integral part of the landscape in the South, John William Ashe, the newly-elected president of the United Nations General Assembly, said prior to a forthcoming SSC forum in Hong Kong.
I am pleased to welcome members of the international community gathering in Hong Kong for the Annual Forum on South-South Cooperation for Sustainable Development.
Under the theme of “ICT, Innovation, Culture and Sustainable urbanization”, the Annual Forum on South-South Cooperation for Sustainable Development 2013 focuses on how to spur ICT innovations in the cultural and urban environment of the South with a view to advancing sustainable development and urbanization, within the framework of South-South Cooperation(SSC).
South Korea and the North on Monday started the third round of working-level talks at the Kaesong Industrial complex to discuss normalizing operation of the joint industrial zone.
South Korea and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Monday started the third round of working-level talks at the Kaesong Industrial complex to discuss normalizing operation of the joint industrial zone.
South Korea and North Korea ended the morning plenary session of the follow-up working-level talks after confirming their different views over the "productive" normalization of the joint industrial park in the North Korea's border town of Kaesong, local broadcaster YTN reported Wednesday.
South Korea's top economic policymaker said Friday that Seoul will cautiously determine when and whether to join the U.S.-led Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), a multilateral trade pact in the Pacific region, after reviewing its effect on the economy and developments of free trade deal with China.
South Korea's unification ministry said Friday that it will discuss how to constructively normalize the Kaesong industrial complex with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) at the working-level talks scheduled for Saturday.
The governments of Indonesia and South Korea on Thursday signed an agreement on bureaucratic reform and establishment of E-Government, a move which is expected to help boost the investment climate in the Southeast Asia's largest economy.
South Korea's foreign ministry said on Tuesday that it has asked the United States to confirm media reports of the U.S. intelligence agency's spying on the South Korean embassy.
South Korean President Park Geun-hye starts a four-day visit to China on Thursday. The visit, which comes months after both countries saw leadership change, is expected to open a new chapter in bilateral relations.
The ailing 94-year-old former President Nelson Mandela is in a worsening condition in hospital, having no impact on U.S. President Barrack Obama's visit, South Africa's President Jacob Zuma said on Monday. "Mandela remains in a critical condition in hospital, and doctors are doing everything possible to ensure his well-being and comfort," said Zuma in Johannesburg.
The ailing 94-year-old former South African president Nelson Mandela's condition becomes critical, South African presidency said on Sunday.
Trade officials from China and South Asian countries at the just-concluded 1st China-South Asia Expo proposed to strengthen cooperation and maintain economic growth amid the lackluster economic rebound.
Nelson Mandela, 95 in next month, was sent to hospital on last Saturday early hours in Pretoria under "serious but stable" lung infection, and over 50 hours later the presidency only disclosed the condition of the Nobel laureate "unchanged".
The spokesman said that in view of the two sides' stalemated relations and increasing mistrust, working-level contacts between the DPRK and South Korea are necessary prior to ministerial-level talks proposed by Seoul.
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