BUSINESS COMMUNITY HAS ‘DIRECT STAKE’ IN HELPING WORLD REACH ANTI-POVERTY GOALS,

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN MESSAGE TO SOUTH ASIA GLOBAL COMPACT MEETING

Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message to the Global Compact Regional Conclave, in Jamshedpur, India, 8 March:

‘THIS IS A MOMENT OF PROMISE’ IN SEARCH FOR MIDDLE EAST PEACE,

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN MESSAGE TO GENEVA MEETING

 

Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message to the International Meeting on the Question of Palestine, delivered by Sergei Ordhonikidze, Director-General, United Nations Office at Geneva, in Geneva, 8 March:

FAO COMMITTEE ON FISHERIES DEBATES MANAGEMENT CHALLENGES, OLD AND NEW

 

Marine-Protected Areas, Deep-Sea Fishing, Tsunami Relief on Agenda

(Reissued as received.)

ADVANCEMENT OF WOMEN DESERVES ‘COLLECTIVE ACTION’, SAYS

 

GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT ON INTERNATIONAL DAY

 

Following is the message of Jean Ping (Gabon), President of the fifty-ninth session of the General Assembly, on the occasion of International Women’s Day, observed 8 March:

UN INTERNATIONAL MEETING ON QUESTION OF PALESTINE

 

HEARS LEGAL ANALYSIS OF ADVISORY OPINION OF ICJ

(Reissued as received.)

UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL MEETING ON QUESTION

 

OF PALESTINE STARTS AT PALAIS DES NATIONS

 

Secretary-General’s Message:  ‘This is a Moment

Of Promise in the Search for Peace in the Middle East’

(Reissued as received.)

Fifty-ninth General Assembly

Fifth Committee

35^th Meeting (AM)

UN STRATEGY FOR INFORMATION, COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES

 

AMONG ISSUES TAKEN UP BY BUDGET COMMITTEE

 

Facilities for Economic Commission for Africa, Work of Liaison

Offices, Report of UN Fund for International Partnerships Also Discussed

Fifty-Ninth General Assembly

Plenary

82^nd Meeting (AM)

GENERAL ASSEMBLY ADOPTS UNITED NATIONS DECLARATION

 

ON HUMAN CLONING BY VOTE OF 84-34-37

UN GLOBAL COMPACT CONVENES MAJOR SOUTH ASIAN MEETING

 

TO ADVANCE RESPONSIBLE BUSINESS, COMBAT POVERTY

NEW YORK, 8 March (Global Compact Office) -- Moving to advance responsible business practices in order to help combat poverty in the developing world, the United Nations Global Compact today convenes its first major regional meeting in South Asia.

EMERGENCY RELIEF COORDINATOR JAN EGELAND CONCLUDES TRIP TO SUDAN;

SAYS 2005 COUNTRY’S ‘MAKE OR BREAK YEAR’

 

KHARTOUM, 8 March (OCHA) -- United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Jan Egeland today completed a four-day tour of the Sudan, including visits to return to areas in South Sudan, internally displaced persons camps and conflict-affected locations in Darfur and meetings with authorities in Khartoum.