Registration

Online and in-person registration

Participants are requested to register online on the Indico UN web page for the Conference https://indico.un.org/event/1015846/registrations/19084/ no later than 11 March 2025, in order to facilitate the smooth coordination of the issuance of identification badges and the compilation of the list of participants.

Prior online registration is mandatory, in line with the standard United Nations security procedures required to facilitate security clearance. Please note that only the names of duly registered participants will be included in the list of participants who can access the conference venue.

The fifty-seventh session of the Commission, including the annual meeting of the Conference of Ministers, will be held from 12 to 18 March 2025 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia under the theme “Advancing the implementation of the Agreement Establishing the African Continental Free Trade Area: proposing transformative strategic actions”, also covering the issues of digitalization, technology, food security and energy transformation. 
The session will begin with the Committee of Experts from 12 to 14 March 2025, followed by side events from 15 and 16 March. The ministerial segment will be held on 17 and 18 March 2025 and will include a high-level policy dialogue on the theme of the session, the annual Adebayo Adedeji lecture and round-table discussions on a series of sub-themes.