Biographical Note

NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF PORTUGAL PRESENTS CREDENTIALS

(Based on information received from the Protocol and Liaison Service.)

Biographical Note

NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF EGYPT PRESENTS CREDENTIALS

(Based on information received from the Protocol and Liaison Service.)

Maged Abdelfattah Abdelaziz, the new Permanent Representative of Egypt to the United Nations, presented his credentials today to Secretary-General Kofi Annan.

Secretary-General Renews Dr. Piot’s Appointment As UNAIDS Executive Director

(Reissued as received.)

Committee on Elimination of

 Discrimination against Women

681^st & 682^nd Meetings (AM & PM)

In remarks to group of 77, Secretary-General says year 2005 offers opportunity

 

for ‘Decisive Progress’ on Development, Security Agendas

Following is the text of remarks by Secretary-General Kofi Annan at the handover of the chairmanship of the Group of 77 Developing Countries today:

DISARMAMEnT IS CRITICAL FOR CONFLICT PREVENTION, PEACE-BUILDING, REALIZING

MILLENNIUM GOALS, SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS CONFERENCE ON DISARMAMENT

Following is the message by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva, to be delivered on 27 January by Sergei Ordzhonikidze, Director-General,United Nations Office at Geneva:

‘We must face up to what happened in the camps’, Secretary-General says

 

at opening of Auschwitz exhibit

Following is the text of remarks by Secretary-General Kofi Annan at the opening of the exhibition “Auschwitz -- The Depth of the Abyss” to commemorate the liberation of the Nazi death camps, in New York on 24 January:

PRESS STATEMENT ON GEORGIA BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT

Following is the text of today’s press statement by the President of the Security Council, César Mayoral:

Members of the Security Council today heard the briefing of the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Georgia, Ms. Heidi Tagliavini, who presented to the Council Members the Secretary General’s report on the activity of the United Nations Observer Mission in Georgia (UNOMIG).

EXPERTS EMPHASIZE FORESTS’ CONTRIBUTION TO MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS

FAO Committed to Helping Realize Development Goals

(Reissued as received.)

ROME, 25 January (FAO) -- Forests contribute directly to reducing extreme poverty and hunger and ensuring environmental sustainability, two of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), a panel of forestry experts invited to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has concluded.

WOMEN, MEN IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES ARE MARRYING LATER,

 

HAVING CHILDREN LATER, according to un report