TEHRAN – The second meeting of the Bureau of the Asia Pacific Ministerial Conference on Housing and Urban Development (APMCHUD) was held on Monday in New Delhi chaired by Iranian Housing and Urban Development Minister Mohammad Saeedikia.

The one-day event focused on developing an action plan for boosting regional cooperation and promoting sustainable urban development among Asia-Pacific countries as adopted during the Tehran APMCHUD meeting in May 2008.
The APMCHUD was established in December 2006, subsequent to the first Asia-Pacific conference held at New Delhi.
The current APMCHUD Bureau consists of the ministers of housing and urban development of Iran, India, China, Indonesia, Armenia, Pakistan and Qatar.
APMCHUD aims to address the challenges of urbanization, housing and habitat management, millennium development goals, and to develop strategies and policies for habitat development in which land and housing were considered to be key components and also sharing of knowledge on land and housing, national and city strategies for poverty alleviation etc