He also welcomed the new initiatives being taken between the trade union movement and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and other areas of joint activity in the UN system. Prospects for moving ahead with the process of UN reform were also addressed during the talks.
“Commitment to the role of the United Nations has been a historical feature of the policies and activities of the international trade union movement, and will no doubt be a central plank of the new international trade union confederation which will be founded in Vienna in November this year”, said Ryder.
ICFTU has three major regional organisations, APRO for Asia and the Pacific, AFRO for Africa, and ORIT for the Americas.
The International Confederation of Free Trade Unions
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