scene of the UN meeting

Zhou Hanmin, deputy director general of the Bureau of Shanghai World Expo Coordination

United Nations yesterday held The 6th Information Service Annual Council in Madrid, the capital of Spain. Zhou Hanmin, deputy director general of the Bureau of Shanghai World Expo Coordination, was invited to the meeting and addressed on "the World Expo Shanghai 2010," to promote and to call for a wider collaboration with UN.

Zhou's speech covered the current statues of the participations, plans of the Expo site, transport arrangement, and the preparations of the Urban Best Practice Area.

The meeting is to last for two days. More than 30 organizations attended the meeting, including International Monetary Fund (IMF), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), UNESCO, United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), UN-HABITAT, World Health Organization (WHO), World Meteorological Organization (WMO), and World Bank.

Before the meeting, Zhou had technical talks with Jane Nyakairu, the representative of UN-HABITAT, including a discussion on pavilion construction, theme demonstration, exhibition designs.

UN confirmed its participation on July 17, 2006, appointing Las Reutersward, director of global division of UN-HABITAT, as the commissioner general of the Epxo 2010. The UN-HABITAT is the main organization of UN that coordinates with the Expo organizers.