Latvia elected to the Commission on Sustainable Development

On 18 May, Latvia was elected to the board of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) Commission on Sustainable Development – CSD, effective from 2010 through 2013.  The election took place during a management session of the ECOSOC in the United Nations building in New York.

During the elections, seventeen CSD members were voted in: Algeria, Benin, Cote d'Ivoire, Togo, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Mongolia, Thailand, Belarus, Latvia, The Bahamas, Panama, Peru, Denmark, France, The Netherlands, and Norway.

The UN Commission on Sustainable Development is the functional arm of the 53 member state ECOSOC which was created at the 47^th session of the General Assembly of the United Nations in December 1992 as the high level international forum for discussion on environment, social and economic issues and their influence on the development of a balanced society.

Participation in the CSD by Latvia will provide an opportunity to participate in the decision-making process at the global level thus promoting development in such areas as sustainable consumption and production, forests and biological diversity. Latvia will be represented on the CSD by the Environment Ministry.

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