In progress at UNHQ

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SC/8246
16/11/2004
Press Release
SC/8246

Security Council

5079th Meeting (AM)


Security Council extends Timor-Leste Mission for final six months,


unanimously adopting resolution 1573 (2004)

 


Following a Security Council debate yesterday on the planned withdrawal next year of the United Nations Mission of Support in East Timor (UNMISET), the Council today extended the Mission’s mandate for a final six months until 20 May 2005.

PI/1622
16/11/2004
Press Release
PI/1622

UN Information and Communication Technologies task force


to meet in Berlin, 19-20 November

 


“Promoting an enabling environment for digital development” will be the theme of the seventh meeting of the United Nations Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Task Force, to be held on 19 and 20 November in Berlin, hosted by the German Foreign Ministry.

IHA/963
16/11/2004
Press Release
IHA/963

UN AID AGENCIES LAUNCH APPEAL FOR DROUGHT-STRICKEN BOLIVIA

 


NEW YORK, 16 November (Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs) -- United Nations humanitarian agencies are appealing for some $1.8 million for programmes to bring emergency aid to 180,000 people in Bolivia’s drought-stricken El Chaco region over the next seven months.

GA/EF/3096
16/11/2004
Press Release
GA/EF/3096

Fifty-Ninth General Assembly

Second Committee

33rd & 34th Meetings (AM & PM)


text approved by second committee recommends assistance to protect caribbean sea

 

from pollution by oil, chemicals, radioactive materials, nuclear waste


Delegates Conclude Discussion

On Eradication of Poverty, Take up Two Other Items

SG/SM/9592
15/11/2004
Press Release
SG/SM/9592

Secretary-General calls for ‘Culture of Respect’ for rule of law,


at home and abroad, in message to New Delhi conference


Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message to the Second International Conference of the Indian Society of International Law in New Delhi, 14-17 November:


I send my greeting to all who have gathered in New Delhi for the Second International Law Conference of the Indian Society of International Law.