[sustran] Re: ESCAP Committee on Transport and Communications

[Dr. V. S. Pendakur]

Thanks.  It is extra-ordinary that, ESCAP which is the regional
organization for Asia where non-motorized transport is predominant, has not
included the concerns expressed by your memo.  We may have to device
strategies to make presentations to national delegations as well as their
Committees on Social and Economic Affairs.  Perhaps, some one more familiar
with the structure of UN can advise us.

Cheers.
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Dr. V. Setty Pendakur
School of Community and Regional Planning
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC, Canada  V6T 1Z2
1-604-822-3394-office, 1-604-263-3576-home
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Email : pendakur at unixg.ubc.ca
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> From: ifrtd at gn.apc.org
> To: sustran-discuss at jca.ax.apc.org
> Subject: [sustran] Re: ESCAP Committee on Transport and Communications
> Date: Wednesday, January 07, 1998 8:28 AM
> 
> Dear everyone
> 
> I attended a meeting of the above held at ESCAP in Bangkok early 
> December.  It was a very interesting meeting and I met many 
> interesting people.  Unfortunately, the content of the meeting 
> included hardly anything about non-motorised transport modes, about  
> environmental issues (limited to the transportation of hazardous 
> goods), about poverty issues or gender issues.  In this vacuum of 
> concern for the transport-disadvantaged and wider developmental 
> issues it was encouraging that the meeting did include a prioritised 
> project on transport for the disabled.  Should we attempt to 
> influence our government delegations to include in the discussion 
> issues that should be of greater concern to a region that is home to 
> a large number of poor people?  What do you think?  
> 
> Best wishes
> 
> Priyanthi Fernando
> Executive Secretary, IFRTD
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