Secretary-General Attends First Annual STI Forum

Oh Joon (centre), Permanent Representative of the Republic of Korea to the UN and President of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), opens the first annual Multi-stakeholder Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals (STI Forum). The theme of this year's forum is ""Realizing the potential of science, technology and innovation for all to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals"", which is taking place on 6-7 June, 2016, at UN Headquarters in New York. Also pictured, from left, are: Kairat Abdrakhmanov, Permanent Representative of Kazakhstan to the UN and Vice-President of the seventieth session of the General Assembly; Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon; Catherine Pollard, Under Secretary-General for General Assembly and Conference Management; and Macharia Kamau, Permanent Representative of Kenya to the UN and Co-Chair of the STI Forum.