NO TOOL FOR DEVELOPMENT MORE EFFECTIVE THAN EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN, SAYS

SECRETARY-GENERAL IN MESSAGE TO NON-ALIGNED MINISTERIAL MEETING

Following is UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message to the Non-Aligned Movement Ministerial Meeting on the Advancement of Women in Putrajaya, 9-10 May:

CLEAN WATER, FERTILE SOILS, PURE AIR NECESSITY FOR BUILDING WORLD OF PEACE,

FREEDOM, DIGNITY FOR ALL, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL TO TEHRAN CONFERENCE

 

Following is UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message to the International Conference on Environment, Peace and the Dialogue among Civilizations and Cultures, delivered by Klaus Toepfer, Executive Director, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), in Tehran, 9 May:

SECRETARY-GENERAL CONDEMNS KABUL BOMBING

 

The following statement was issued by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Sunday, 8 May:

Note to Correspondents

UNU PANEL ON ‘COMPETITION AND COMPLEMENTARITY BETWEEN GLOBAL

AND REGIONAL PUBLIC GOODS’ TO BE HELD ON 13 MAY

 

On 13 May from 2:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. in Conference Room 6, the United Nations University Comparative Regional Integration Studies Programme (UNU-CRIS) will hold a panel discussion on “Competition and complementarity between global and regional public goods”.

Committee on NGOS

20^th & 21^st Meetings* (AM & PM)

NGO COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS 13 ORGANIZATIONS FOR CONSULTATIVE STATUS

WITH ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL

Defers Nine Applications, Closes One, Defers Three Requests for Reclassification

NEW BOOK ‘RAIN, PROSPERITY AND PEACE’ DESCRIBES

 

GLOBAL PASTORALIST GATHERING IN ETHIOPIA

 

(Reissued as received.)

ADDIS ABABA, 9 May (OCHA) -- A new book, published by the Institute of Development Studies, tells the story of the Global Pastoralist Gathering when 200 pastoralists from 23 countries met in Ethiopia earlier this year.

Fifty-Ninth General Assembly

Fifth Committee

50^th Meeting (AM)

BUDGET COMMITTEE TAKES UP FINANCING FOR HAITI, DEMOCRATIC

REPUBLIC OF CONGO PEACEKEEPING MISSIONS

 

AS GENERAL ASSEMBLY MEETS TO COMMEMORATE END OF SECOND WORLD WAR, SPEAKERS

REAFFIRM COMMITMENT TO PEACE, STRENGTHENING OF UNITED NATIONS

Importance of Dialogue, Tolerance, Rejection of War

Stressed Along with Determination ‘Never to Forget’

BONN TALKS TO PROMOTE PROGRESS ON CLIMATE CHANGE CONVENTION,

 

KYOTO PROTOCOL TO BE HELD 16 – 27 MAY

 

(Reissued as received.)

BONN, 9 May (UNFCCC) -- The next series of international meetings on work under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Kyoto Protocol will take place in Bonn from 16 to 27 May 2005.

The May meetings will include:

COMMITMENT TO BUILDING ‘WORLD FIT FOR HUMANKIND’ IS BEST TRIBUTE TO MILLIONS WHO

PERISHED IN SECOND WORLD WAR, DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Following is the text of remarks by Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette at today’s meeting of the General Assembly to mark the sixtieth anniversary of the end of the Second World War: