ROBUST CAPACITY-BUILDING VITAL FOR RULE-OF-LAW ASSISTANCE TO POST-CONFLICT

SOCIETIES, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS IN MESSAGE TO CRIME PREVENTION CONGRESS

Creation of Dedicated Assistance Unit Will Help

Societies Emerging from Instability, He Tells Bangkok Meeting

UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE WORLD FREER, FAIRER, SAFER ‘MUST NOT BE MISSED’,

 

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN REMARKS TO FINANCE OFFICALS IN WASHINGTON

 

Following are Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s remarks at a dinner with International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank Committees, in Washington, D.C., on Saturday 16 April:

SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES DIALOGUE TO RESOLVE ECUADOR’S CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS

The following statement was issued on Saturday, 16 April, by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

The Secretary-General is following with concern the latest developments in Ecuador.  The present crisis may aggravate an already unstable situation.

Security Council

5163^rd Meeting (PM)

SECURITY COUNCIL WIDENS ARMS EMBARGO ON DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO

 

TO INCLUDE TRAVEL BAN, ASSETS FREEZE ON VIOLATORS

 

Committee on Information

Twenty-seventh Session

1^st Meeting (AM)

Fifty-ninth General Assembly

Fourth Committee

28^th Meeting (PM)

Commission on Sustainable Development

Thirteenth Session

10^th & 11^th Meetings (AM & PM)

MASSIVE SCALING UP OF RESOURCES NEEDED TO MEET GLOBAL GOALS ON WATER,

SANITATION, HOUSING, COMMISSION ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT TOLD

Secretary-General Tells Panel of Finance, Development Ministers Greater

Development Investment Imperative to Global Well-Being, Security, Freedoms

Economic and Social Council

Special High-Level Meeting

5^th & 6^th Meetings (AM & PM)

SECRETARY-GENERAL ASKS, ‘IF NOT NOW, WHEN?’, AS HE UNDERSCORES NEED TO TACKLE

POVERTY, TERRORISM, DEADLY WEAPONS, KILLER DISEASES IN HIGH-LEVEL MEETING

Momentous Decisions Expected, He Says as Economic and Social

Council, Bretton Woods Institutions, World Trade Organization, UNCTAD Hold Talks

disarmament WORKSHOP ON small arms, light weapons for Beijing, 19 to 21 april

NEW YORK, 15 April (Department for Disarmament Affairs) -– A United Nations workshop on small arms and light weapons will be held in Beijing, China, from 19 to 21 April 2005.  Organized by the Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Asia and the Pacific of the Department for Disarmament Affairs, the meeting is hosted by China with generous support from Japan and Switzerland.

UN HUMANITARIAN OFFICE DONOR SUPPORT GROUP VISITS GUINEA

CONAKRY, 18 April (OCHA) -– A 15-member delegation of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Donor Support Group, represented by Belgium, Canada, the European Community Humanitarian Office, France, Germany, Japan, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom and the United States will arrive in Conakry, from Abidjan tomorrow for a three-day visit to Guinea.