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Article: Backgrounder: Cooperation between China,UN-HABITAT
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- April 28, 2006
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Backgrounder: Cooperation between China,UN-HABITAT
BEIJING, April 28 (Xinhua) -- The following is a backgrounder of
cooperation between China and the United Nations Center for Human
Settlements (UNCHS), which was established in 1978, then renamed in
2001 as the UN Human Settlement Program (UN-HABITAT).
From 1993-1998, China attended, as an observer, all the annual
commission conferences of the UNCHS.
In 1998, China was admitted a state member of the UNCHS.
In 1990, China established its official Representative Office in
the UNCHS headquarters in Nairobi, the capital city of Kenya.
In August 1991, UNCHS established its Beijing Information Office
with China's Construction Ministry.
In ...