un bodies call for immediate action to ensure achievement

 

of goals set out in millennium summit

 

In Joint Statement, Agency Heads Welcome Millennium Project Report

(Reissued as received.)

ROME, 18 January (IFAD) -- Three Rome-based UN agencies today called for immediate action by developed and developing countries to ensure that the goals of the 2000 Millennium Summit are achieved.

agreement on global early-warning system should be key outcome

 

of upcoming disaster-reduction conference

SmallIslands Also Close Conference with Call for Action

To Conserve Corals, Mangroves, Other NaturalSea Defences

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Secretary-General Kofi Annan arrived in Mauritius from the Maldives islands on Monday, 10 January.

Secretary-General Kofi Annan arrived in the Maldive islands on Sunday, 9 January, from Sri Lanka. It was the third and last of the earthquake- and tsunami-affected countries he would visit on this trip.

DEVELOPMENT GOALS NOT UTOPIAN, BUT EMINENTLY ACHIEVABLE, SECRETARY-GENERAL

 

SAYS AT LAUNCH OF MILLENNIUM PROJECT REPORT

Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s remarks at the launch of the report of the Millennium Project in New York, today, 17 January:

It is indeed a great pleasure to accept the final report of the Millennium Project.

This is an important and impressive document.

representatives of greece, former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia meet

 

under Secretary-General’s auspices

 

Following is the text of a statement attributable to the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

RESOLUTIONS AND STATEMENTS

OF THE SECURITY COUNCIL

2004

CONTENTS

 

FAO to hold special conference on smallisland developing States

Meeting to Follow Up on Mauritius Recommendations

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UNFPA Welcomes Millennium Project’s Emphasison Critical Roles

 

of Gender, Reproductive Health in Poverty Reduction

 

United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs to Contribute

 

To World Conference on Disaster Reduction

(Reissued as received.)