UN Report Says Strong global growth in 2005 Depends

 

on how dollar, global imbalances unwind

 

NEW YORK, 25 January (UN Department of Public Information) -- Global imbalances, and the United States trade deficit, in particular, will not be corrected by a rapidly falling US dollar, contrary to many expectations, the United Nations warns today, in an otherwise upbeat assessment of the world economy at the beginning of 2005.

Committee on Elimination of

 Discrimination against Women

679^th & 680^th Meetings (AM & PM)

UNITED NATIONS-EUROPEAN UNION RENEW COMMITMENT TO FIGHT ORGANIZED CRIME

(Reissued as received.)

VIENNA, 24 January (UN information Service) -- Antonio Maria Costa, Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), met with Javier Solana, European Union High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy, in Brussels today.

COMMITTEE NEGOTIATING TREATY ON RIGHTS OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES

OPENS FIFTH SESSION AT UN HEADQUARTERS

The General Assembly Committee drafting the first-ever convention on the rights and dignity of persons with disabilities resumed negotiations today, focusing on the issue of equality and non-discrimination.

SENIOR UN OFFICIALS MEET WITH HIGH-LEVEL DELEGATION FROM COLOMBIA

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

IN MESSAGE TO ‘BIODIVERSITY 2005’, SECRETARY-GENERAL CALLS FOR RATIFICATION

OF BIODIVERSITY CONVENTION, BIOSAFETY PROTOCOL

Following is the message by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to “Biodiversity 2005” in Paris today, 24 January, delivered by Koichiro Matsuura, Director General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO):

‘SUCH AN EVIL MUST NEVER BE ALLOWED TO HAPPEN AGAIN’, SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS

GENERAL ASSEMBLY SESSION COMMEMORATING LIBERATION OF NAZI DEATH CAMPS

Following is today’s statement by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the special session of the General Asse3mbly, commemorating the sixtieth anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camps:

UN SENDS TEAM TO GUYANA FOLLOWING FLOODS

Round-up

UN CONFERENCE ON DISASTER REDUCTION CONCLUDES; ADOPTS

PLAN OF ACTION FOR NEXT 10 YEARS

Participants Commit to Reducing Vulnerabilities to Natural Hazards

(Received from a UN Information Officer.)

NATIONS CALL FOR SAFER HOSPITALS, SCHOOLS TO PREPARE FOR DISASTERS

(Received from a UN Information Officer.)