UN EXPERT GROUP MEETING IN VIENNA CALLS FOR MEASURES

TO STOP ILLICIT DRUG TRADE THROUGH INTERNET

 

(Reissued as received.)

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES JAMES WOLFENSOHN’S APPOINTMENT

 

BY QUARTET AS SPECIAL ENVOY FOR GAZA DISENGAGEMENT

The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

SECURITY COUNCIL COMMITTEE ON LIBERIA UPDATES ITS TRAVEL BAN LIST

On 14 April 2005, the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1521 (2003) concerning Liberia decided to add the following five individuals to the list of persons subject to the travel restrictions imposed by paragraph 4 (a) of resolution 1521 (2003) and renewed by paragraph 1 (a) of resolution 1579 (2004) (the Travel Ban List):

General Sumo Dennis

Mr. George Dweh

Commission on Population and Development

Thirty-Eighth Session

8^th Meeting (Resumed) (PM)

COMMISSION ON POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT CONCLUDES THIRTY-EIGHTH SESSION, SAYS

URGENT ACTION AGAINST HIV/AIDS CRUCIAL TO MEETING GLOBAL ANTI-POVERTY GOALS

Urges Increased Development Assistance to Fight Epidemic,

Measures to Empower Women to Protect Themselves from Infection

Ad Hoc Committee on Convention

on Persons with Disabilities

1^st Meeting (PM)

AD HOC COMMITTEE ON DISABILITIES CONVENTION ELECTS

 

DON MCKAY OF NEW ZEALAND AS CHAIRMAN

 

The General Assembly Committee charged with drafting the first-ever convention on the rights and dignity of persons with disabilities elected a new Chairman in a brief organizational meeting today.

TRANSCRIPT OF PRESS CONFERENCE BY SECRETARY-GENERAL KOFI ANNAN AND SPECIAL ENVOY

BILL CLINTON AT UNITED NATIONS HEADQUARTERS, 13 APRIL 2005

SECRETARY-GENERAL CONCERNED BY MOUNTING TENSIONS

 

IN GUINEA-BISSAU IN ADVANCE OF JUNE ELECTIONS

 

The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

SECRETARY-GENERAL CONGRATULATES GENERAL ASSEMBLY ON ADOPTION

 

OF INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION ON NUCLEAR TERRORISM

 

The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

The Secretary-General congratulates the General Assembly on its adoption today by consensus of the International Convention for the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism.

IN MESSAGE TO ICT TASK FORCE MEETING IN DUBLIN, SECRETARY-GENERAL STRESSES

IMPORTANCE OF ICT ‘TO HELP UNLOCK THE DOOR TO EDUCATION’

 

Following is the message by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the eighth meeting of the United Nations Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) Task Force, in Dublin, 13-14 April, delivered by José Antonio Ocampo, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs:

ELECTION OF FAO DIRECTOR-GENERAL -– DR DIOUF SOLE CANDIDATE

FAO Conference to Vote in November 2005

(Reissued as received.)

ROME, 13 April (FAO) -- The incumbent Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Dr. Jacques Diouf, will be the sole candidate in the November 2005 election for head of the UN agency, the FAO announced today.