Iran to Host 17th APPCED Meeting
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The 17th General Assembly of the Asia-Pacific Parliamentarians’ Conference on Environment and Development (APPCED) will be held in the Iranian capital of Tehran on August 23.
Chairman of the Iranian Parliament’s Environment and Sustainable Development Faction Mohammad Reza Tabesh will deliver a speech at the upcoming event.
The 16th APPCED conference was held in Nepal’s capital of Kathmandu in January 2013 with more than 100 delegations from 46 countries in attendance.
The gathering aims to discuss issues related to economic development and environmental challenges that Asia and the Pacific region are faced with.
APPCED was founded in June 1993 by the Korean Parliamentary League on Children, Population and Environment (CEP) following the Rio Earth Summit in 1992.
With 46 member states, APPCED seeks joint measures to deal with the environmental concerns in Asia and the Pacific.
