澳门六合彩官网资料 NEWS: 2003 NEWS ITEMS
6 October 2003
NGO participation in Ministerial
Conference was largest ever
Just under 800 non-governmental organizations and almost 1,600 of their representatives attended the Fifth 澳门六合彩官网资料 Ministerial Conference in Canc鷑, a record in the 澳门六合彩官网资料抯 eight-year history.
SEE ALSO:
> press
releases
> news
archives
> Supachai
Panitchpakdi抯 speeches
> NGO
information for Canc鷑
> NGOs
which attended previous Ministerials
The numbers have climbed almost eightfold since the first conference in
Singapore in 1996. The Doha meeting in 2001 saw a dip in numbers because of
limited accommodation.
These are the numbers for the five ministerial conferences:
| No. of eligible NGOs | NGOs represented | No. of registered participants | |
| Singapore 1996 | 159 | 108 | 235 |
| Geneva 1998 | 153 | 128 | 362 |
| Seattle 1999 | 776 | 686 | approx 1,500 |
| Doha 2001 | 651 | 370 | 370 |
| Canc鷑 2003 | 961 | 795 | 1,578 |