Editor's note: The United Nations Science Day event co-sponsored by SEI, UNDP, ISC, SDSN, and UN DESA was held on July 15 in the Dinner room of the UN delegation.

 At 8:30 in the morning, experts, scholars and representatives from the scientific community from different countries, After breakfast in the DDR,At nine o'clock, the high-level science-policy forum officially begins

First, the two hosts  Ms. Laurel Patterson, Head for SDG Integration, UNDP and Ms. Kelvy Bird, Founder, Presencing Institute Introduced the background and main objectives of this forum. Then Csaba Korosi, the President of the 77th session of the UN General Assembly, Ambassador Mathu Joyini, Permanent Representative of South Africa and STI Co-Chai and Sir Peter Gluckman, President of the International Science Council delivered speeches respectively. 

Xu Haoliang, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations attended the forum, delivered a speech at the closing of the Science Day, and watched the wonderful performance of the Resistance Revival choir together.

  Mr. Haoliang Xu,Under-Secretary-General and Director of the Bureau for Policy and Programme Support, UNDP