Fifty-ninth General Assembly

Plenary

79^th Meeting (AM)

General Assembly adopts resolution emphasizing need to maintain focus

on tsunami-hit region beyond emergency relief stage

 

Economic and Social Council

2005 Organizational Session

1^st Meeting (PM)

Committee on Elimination of

 Discrimination against Women

673^rd & 674^th Meetings (AM & PM)

COMMITTEE TO ELIMINATE DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN CONSIDERS REPORTS OF CROATIA

Discusses Situation of Minorities, Efforts Towards Gender Equality

ENVIRONMENT’S CRITICAL ROLE IN DEFEATING POVERTY, DISEASE, HUNGER

OUTLINED IN UN MILLENNIUM PROJECT REPORT

(Reissued as received.)

NAIROBI, 18 January (UNEP) -- Klaus Toepfer, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), today hailed a report from the Millennium Project as a milestone in underlining the vital link between environment and defeating poverty.

COPING WITH WTO TRADE REFORMS:  MIXED IMPACT FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

(Reissued as received.)

UNODC, EUROPEAN COMMISSION AGREE DRUGS, CRIME, TERRORISM INEXTRICABLY LINKED

Bilateral Solutions Needed to Combat New Threats

(Reissued as received.)

UNODC TELLS EUROPEAN DRUG CZARS CRIME AND TERRORISM SUBSIDIZED BY DRUG TRAFFICKING

Democracy, Stability, Peace Depend on Strong Counter-Drug Policies

(Reissued as received.)

TRANSCRIPT OF PRESS CONFERENCE BY SECRETARY-GENERAL KOFI ANNAN

AT UNITED NATIONS HEADQUARTERS, 18 JANUARY 2005

The Secretary-General:  Good morning.  Ladies and gentlemen, it is a great pleasure for me to meet you this morning with Ms. Ann Veneman.

TSUNAMI CONFIRMED INCREASING TOLL OF DEATHS FROM NATURAL DISASTERS,

SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS IN MESSAGE TO KOBE WORLD CONFERENCE

Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s video message to the World Conference on Disaster Reduction in Kobe, being held from 18 to 22 January:

Secretary-General, addressing General Assembly meeting on tsunami disaster,

underlines need to focus on longer-term recovery, reconstruction

Urging Unity in Healing Old Wounds, Long-Running Conflicts,

He Calls Moment Opportunity, Reminder to Address Other Emergencies