Economic and Social Council

High-Level Segment Preparatory

AM & PM Meeting

RURAL DEVELOPMENT CRITICAL TO MEETING ANTI-POVERTY GOALS SET

AT 2000 MILLENNIUM SUMMIT, ECOSOC TOLD

Series of Round Table Discussions Held

in Preparation for High-Level Segment in Geneva

RURAL AREAS RECOGNIZED AS KEY IN ANTI-POVERTY FIGHT,

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL TOLD

Growingrecognition that the rural areas –- where 75 per cent of the world’s poor live -- are key in the fight against poverty is coupled with newly rising levels of international assistance, Lennart Baäge, the President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development, told a meeting of the United NationsEconomic and Social Council (ECOSOC) today.

ESCALATING CRISIS IN RURAL AFRICA MAIN CONCERN AT ECOSOC MEETING

OF MINISTERS, UN AGENCY HEADS IN NEW YORK, 30 APRIL

Economic and Social Council

2003 Organizational Session

9^th Meeting (AM)

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL ELECTS MEMBERS OF HUMAN RIGHTS

COMMISSION, OTHER SUBSIDIARY BODIES

The Economic and Social Council this morning filled vacancies on a number of its subsidiary bodies, including the Commission on Human Rights, to which it elected 24 members.

GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT SAYS UN MEETING OF FINANCE, TRADE INSTITUTIONS OFFERS HOPE FOR MORE PROFOUND PROGRESS IN ACHIEVING ANTI-POVERTY GOALS

Following is the statement by the President of the General Assembly, Jan Kavan (Czech Republic), to the special high-level meeting with the Bretton Woods institutions and the World Trade Organization in New York on Monday, 14 April:

SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES DEVELOPED COUNTRIES TO ‘DRAMATICALLY REDUCE’

AGRICULTURAL SUBSIDIES, AT HIGH-LEVEL ECOSOC MEETING

Economic and Social Council

Special High-Level Meeting

7^th & 8^th Meetings (AM & PM)

ECOSOC MEETS WITH BRETTON WOODS INSTITUTIONS, WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION;

AIMS AT ‘POLICY COHERENCE’ IN IMPLEMENTING MONTERREY COMMITMENTS

Secretary-General Says UN Natural Home for Needed

Economic and Social Council

2003 Organizational Session

6^th Meeting (AM)

MEMBERS OF ECOSOC NEGOTIATING COMMITTEE APPOINTED; WILL MEET 26 MARCH

TO CONSIDER AGREEMENT BETWEEN UN, WORLD TOURISM ORGANIZATION

Economic and Social Council

2003 Organizational Session

5^th Meeting (AM)

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL, PREPARING FOR GENEVA SUBSTANTIVE SESSION, ADOPTS

HUMANITARIAN SEGMENT THEMES, OPERATIONAL SEGMENT WORK PROGRAMME

Economic and Social Council

2003 Organizational Session

4^th Meeting (PM)                    

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL EXTENDS MANDATE

OF AD HOC ADVISORY GROUP ON GUINEA-BISSAU