The United Nations said it will establish its first offices in the North Pacific to improve services in three former United States territories, Radio New Zealand International reported on Thursday.
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) is to establish sub-regional offices in the Marshall Islands and the Federated States of Micronesia possibly as early as June.
The move is in response to a request issued to the UN by leaders in several Pacific nations in 2005, the radio said.
While UNFPA is taking the lead in the Marshall Islands and Micronesia, the office will represent all UN agencies in the region.
The United Nation's Children's Fund (UNICEF) is setting up similar sub-regional UN offices in Vanuatu and Kiribati, while the United Nations Development Program is doing the same in Tuvalu, Nauru and Palau.
The UNFPA's regional representative Najib Assifi said the UNFPA has also singed a new five-year country program action plan for the Marshall Islands for 2008-2011.
He said it will increase support to population and reproduction program for about 300,000 U.S. dollars a year to half a million dollars.
Source:Xinhua
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