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PRESS CONFERENCE

8 April 2003

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From: Yves de San, UNDP Resident Representative

Subject: Press Conference to launch the booklet on: Cooperatives in Lebanon: Opportunities and Constrains

The United Nations Development Programme and the Rene Moawad Foundation, in cooperation with the Friedrich Naumann Foundation, are organizing a press conference to launch the booklet on Cooperatives in Lebanon: Opportunities and Constrains on:

Thursday 10 April ‏2003‏‏
At 12 noon at UN House-Riad Solh
Conference Room B1

Mr. Yves de San, UNDP Resident Representative and Ms. Nayla Moawad, President of Rene Moawad Foundation will launch this study.

The booklet includes an overview of the workshop series organized by UNDP and Rene Moawad Foundation during the last quarter of 2002 and includes the presentations, discussions and recommendations from the workshops. Three sessions were organized in North Lebanon, South Lebanon and Bekaa with the participation of more than 150 cooperatives, and final recommendations were issued in Beirut at a concluding session held in November 2002.

We are confident that the booklet will serve as important reference document for you.

For more information kindly contact the information unit at UNDP on 981301 ext 1702