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Beirut, 30 June 2003 (United Nations Information Service)--Arab
ministers concerned with Public Administration and Finance will
gather tomorrow by the United Nations Economic and Social
Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) in a three-day consultative
meeting on "Public Administration and Public Accounting
Development with Stress on Electronic Tools."
The Meeting, which will be opened by Lebanese Administrative
Development Minister Karim Pakradoni at 10:00 am at the UN House,
Riad Solh, Square, Beirut, aims to highlight the changing role of
governments, and specifically of the public administrative
process, and to identify major influencing forces contributing to
this change. The Meeting also aims to increase awareness of the
participants in public administration and public accounting
issues. It will focus on the need to shift from the current
accounting system to the accrual accounting and total economic
resources concept, and promote the role of electronic tools in
boosting the efficiency of administrative procedures.
Organized in cooperation with the Office of the Minister of State
for Administrative Reform in Lebanon, the United Nations Division
for Public Administration and Development Management (UN DPADM),
the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), Friedrich Ebert
Stiftung (FES) and the Association for the Development of
Informatics and Law in Lebanon (ADIL), the Meeting is expected to
discuss the development of public administration in theory and
practice; the efforts undertaken world wide in government budget
reforms and their applicability and constraints in ESCWA Member
States; and the review of efforts undertaken in Member States to
enhance the efficiency of the public administration process.
Following the opening session, a joint press conference will be
held by ESCWA Executive Secretary Mervat Tallawy and Minister
Pakradoni to launch the ESCWA project on the Information Society
Profile in the region. This project, which comes within the
efforts of the UN Regional Commission in preparing Arab countries
for the World Summit on the Information Society (Geneva, December
2003), aims to prepare basic profiles on the information society
relating to Arab States.
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