Discussion will be milestone for Armenia
The UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) started its 55th sitting in New York. The sitting is headed by RA Permanent Representative to the UN, Ambassador Karen Nazaryan.
The primary topic of concern is women's involvement in the spheres of education, science and technologies, as well as the discussion on issues related to the protection of their equal opportunities in the sphere of labor and employment.
It should be mentioned that alongside the commission's sitting will be the official launch of the UN Gender Equality and Women's Advancement Body (UN Women) with the participation of high-ranking UN officials and delegations of UN-member countries.
The Commission on the Status of Women is one of the functional commissions of the Economic and Social Council, which is the main body of the UN. The Commission's agenda includes a variety of topics related to gender equality and women's advancement and is the only inter-governmental body that develops the main global policy for those spheres. Armenia took over the presidency in 2010 and 2011.
The Commission's discussions may become an important milestone for Armenia for the implementation of the Gender Policy Concept and the strategic program for 2011-2015 and will promote the participation of different layers of Armenian government and society in the solution to women's main issues of concern, as reported by the press service of the RA Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
