By IRNA,
New Delhi : Iran’s Minister of Housing and Urban Development Mohammad Saeedi Kia will chair the Bureau of the Asia Pacific Ministerial Conference on Housing and Urban Development scheduled to meet in New Delhi Monday.
The APMCHUD was established in December 2006, subsequently to the first Asia Pacific Conference held at New Delhi under the aegis of Government of India, Ministry of Housing and Poverty Alleviation and UN-HABITAT.
Kumari Selja, Minister of State for Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation (Independent Charge) was the first Chairperson of the APMCHUD.
The second conference of APMCHUD was held in Tehran during May, 2008 consequent to which the Housing and Urban Development Minister from Iran, Mohammad Saeedi Kia, has taken over as the Chairperson of APMCHUD.
The Bureau of APMCHUD is represented by Ministers from various sub- regions of Asia Pacific countries.
The current Bureau consists of Minister of Housing & Urban Development from Iran, India, China, Indonesia, Armenia, Pakistan and Qatar.
The activities of APMCHUD are coordinated by the Secretariat of APMCHUD, which is established at HUDCO Bhawan, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi.
The meeting of the Bureau would focus on concertizing the Action Plan for Regional Cooperation on promoting Sustainable Urban Development among Asia-Pacific countries as adopted during the Tehran Conference of APMCHUD in May 2008.