<div dir="ltr"><div><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif" size="4">Dear Asia Pacific Disability Constituency Colleagues and Friends,</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="4" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1rem"><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="4" color="#000000">The Asia-Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development (APFSD) is an <span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:bolder">annual and inclusive intergovernmental</span> forum and a <span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:bolder">regional platform</span> for supporting countries, in particular those with special needs, in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development while serving as a regional preparatory meeting to the high-level political forum.</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1rem"><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="4" color="#000000">The Forum provides a <span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:bolder">regional perspective on the implementation</span> of the 2030 Agenda by identifying regional trends and consolidating and sharing best practices and lessons learned. The Forum takes into consideration the contributions of United Nations system bodies (at the regional level), other regional and sub regional organizations, and relevant stakeholders.<span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:bolder">  </span>The APFSD also<span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:bolder"> supports follow-up and review</span> of progress on the 2030 Agenda at the regional level.</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1rem"><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="4" color="#000000">The 10th APFSD is planned to be held on 27-30 March 2023 in Bangkok, Thailand. </font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1rem"><span style="background-color:transparent;white-space:pre-wrap;text-align:justify"><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="4" color="#000000">The countries in the Asia Pacific reporting for VNR next year: Timor Leste, Maldives, Singapore, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Mongolia, Thailand, Fiji, Brunei, and Vietnam.</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1rem"><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="4" color="#000000">The 10th APFSD will play a unique role as a catalyzer of solutions and peer learning on how to accelerate transformations for the implementation of the 2030 Agenda while recovering from COVID-19. Within this context, the forum will provide the space for an in-depth review of the following cluster of goals which will be reviewed by the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) in 2023: <span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:bolder">SDG 6 (Clean Water and Sanitization), 7 (Affordable and Clean Energy), 9 (Industry, Innovation, Infrastructure), 11 (Sustainable Cities and Communities), and 17 (Partnerships for the Goals).</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1rem"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:bolder"><font size="4" face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">Sustainable Development Goals Under Review in 2023</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1rem"><font size="4" face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><img alt="SDG6" src="https://www.unescap.org/sites/default/d8files/inline-images/united-nations-sustainable-development-goals-icon-grid_0.png" style="box-sizing:border-box;vertical-align:middle;border-style:none;max-width:100%"> <img alt="SDG7" src="https://www.unescap.org/sites/default/d8files/inline-images/united-nations-sustainable-development-goals-icon-grid%20copy%203.png" style="box-sizing:border-box;vertical-align:middle;border-style:none;max-width:100%"> <img alt="SDG9" src="https://www.unescap.org/sites/default/d8files/inline-images/united-nations-sustainable-development-goals-icon-grid%20copy%204_0.png" style="box-sizing:border-box;vertical-align:middle;border-style:none;max-width:100%"> <img alt="SDG11" src="https://www.unescap.org/sites/default/d8files/inline-images/united-nations-sustainable-development-goals-icon-grid%20copy_1.png" style="box-sizing:border-box;vertical-align:middle;border-style:none;max-width:100%"> <img alt="SDG17" src="https://www.unescap.org/sites/default/d8files/inline-images/united-nations-sustainable-development-goals-icon-grid%20%281%29_1.png" style="box-sizing:border-box;vertical-align:middle;border-style:none;max-width:100%"></font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1rem"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:bolder"><font size="4" face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">Subregional preparatory meetings for the APFSD 2023:</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1rem"><font size="4" face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:bolder">- <a href="https://www.unescap.org/events/2022/6th-north-east-asia-multistakeholder-forum-sustainable-development-goals-2022" title="the 6th North-East Asia Multistakeholder Forum on Sustainable Development Goals 2022" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent" target="_blank"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">North-East Asia Multistakeholder Forum on Sustainable Development Goals</span></span></a>, </span>September 07-08</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1rem"><font size="4" face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">- <span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:bolder"><a href="https://www.unescap.org/events/2022/sixth-north-and-central-asian-multistakeholder-forum-implementation-sustainable" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent" target="_blank">North and Central Asia Multistakeholder Forum on Implementation the Sustainable Development Goals,</a></span> October 06-07</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1rem"><font size="4" face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">- <span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:bolder"><a href="https://www.unescap.org/events/2022/sixth-south-east-asia-multi-stakeholder-forum-accelerating-recovery-covid-19-while" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent" target="_blank">South-East Asia Multistakeholder Forum on the Sustainable Development Goals</a></span>, November 07-08</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1rem"><font size="4" face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">- South and South-West Asia Forum on the Sustainable Development Goals, December 05-07</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1rem"><font size="4" face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">- Pacific Multistakeholder Forum on the Sustainable Development Goals, December 06-07</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1rem"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="" size="4"><br></font></span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1rem"><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="4"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">More </span>updates are coming<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> soon. </span></font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1rem"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="" size="4">Thank you for your kind attention and support. </font></span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1rem"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="" size="4">With regards,</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1rem"><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif" size="4">Lany</font></p></div></div>