16 June 2020 - The virtual United Nations Global Compact Leaders’ Summit gathered over 20,000 participants from across the globe. The 26 hours “chase-the-sun” event was organized under the umbrella of “recovering better, stronger and together” from three unprecedented and interconnected crises: inequality, health and climate change.
VIENNA, 12 June 2020 – The Director General of UNIDO, LI Yong, and the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Mariano Grossi, today signed an agreement to renew cooperation on the peaceful uses of nuclear technology for inclusive and sustainable industrial development.
VIENNA, 7 April 2020 - The COVID-19 pandemic has created a global crisis that is unprecedented in the history of UNIDO and the 75 years of the United Nations. It is confronting each of us with unprecedented challenges. Every country is feeling its impact on health care systems, the economy and society as a whole. In the global fight to overcome this virus together, UNIDO joins with the entire United Nations family to help our Member States overcome this global crisis. In view of an exceptional economic downturn, UNIDO also stands ready to provide medium- and long-term support in the aftermath of the pandemic.
VIENNA, 13 March 2020 – UNIDO and the Government of the Republic of Albania have agreed a comprehensive programmatic framework to achieve inclusive and sustainable industrial development over the next five years.
VIENNA, 12 March 2020 – UNIDO and Japan are extending their cooperation to help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and move closer to the achievement of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
VIENNA, 21 February 2020 – LI Yong, Director General of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), and Federal Councillor Ignazio Cassis, Foreign Minist
VIENNA, 24 July 2020 – The new Permanent Representative of the United Republic of Tanzania, Maimuna Kibenga Tarishi, presented her credentials to Director General LI Yong.
BRUSSELS, 20 July 2020 – The Director General LI Yong and the Secretary-General of the Organization of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS), Georges Rebelo Chikoti, agreed to enhance their partnership and to strengthen UNIDO’s support to OACPS Secretariat and Member States in the context of Post-Cotonou agreement.
VIENNA, 14 July 2020 - The Director General LI Yong had a bilateral discussion with Fahad Al Gergawi, President of the World Association of Investment Promotion Agencies (WAIPA) and Chief Executive Officer of “Dubai FDI”, to discuss successful past and future cooperation between UNIDO and WAIPA in support of investment promotion agencies (IPAs), specifically with regards to strategies for IPAs to tackle the contraction of global levels of foreign direct investments (FDI) caused by the global COVID-19 crisis.
VIENNA, 14 July 2020 – The new Permanent Representative of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Choe Kang II, presented his credentials to Director General LI Yong.
I am very pleased to join you in the celebration of Africa Day today, at a time as we witness an unprecedented crisis — a crisis that affects all parts of the world but that also highlights the varied challenges that Africa is facing.
On behalf of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), I would like to warmly welcome you at this panel session jointly organized by UNIDO and our honorable Russian partners – the Council of the Eurasian Women’s Forum established under the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly, the Ministry of Industry and Trade, and the Roscongress Foundation. Today’s session is devoted to the topic of “Women executives in building successful business models”. This is a topic which is particularly relevant in the context of our common aspiration to attain inclusive and sustainable development on the global, regional and national level.
I am pleased to welcome you all to the stand of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) at Hannover Messe. I thank you for the efforts and costs you have taken on you to ensure to be with us at this important event which is considered the world’s largest industrial fair.
Message from the Director General of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) on the occasion of World Environment Day 2018 and in advance of World Oceans Day 2018.
