Organized by the OSCE Centre in Ashgabat in partnership with the Office of the OSCE Co-ordinator for Economic and Environmental Activities (OCEEA), the conference brought together representatives from the trade, transport and customs agencies of the Central Asian countries, the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), the World Customs Organization (WCO) and the International Rail Transport Committee (CIT).
At a June 4 gathering of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe meeting in Rome, Appraisal Institute President Jim Amorin, MAI, SRA, said: "Advancement of professionalism provides greater assurance that the complexity of the interconnected world economy will be better understood and served with knowledgeable and accountable valuation experts.
and is produced with the cooperation of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (Energy division) and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA).
The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe and the Stockholm-based International Federation of Robotics forecast that cheaper prices could lead to a growth in sales to 700,000 a year by 2005.
This treaty, the first of the new century, echoes a more limited treaty negotiated 3 years ago under the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (SN: 7/4/98, p.
At the end of 1999, the number of robots in service was 743,000, according to World Robotics 2000, produced by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe in cooperation with the International Federation of Robotics (IFR).
Today, Europe is a global leader and innovator in international laws aimed at reducing the flow of pollution across borders, and many of those laws are developed and implemented under the auspices of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (ECE).