IRELAND TO GIVE $5.1 MILLION TO UNITED NATIONS INITIATIVE FOR MODERN

TECHNOLOGIES TO HELP EDUCATION IN DEVELOPING WORLD

            UNITED NATIONS, 1 November -- Ireland is to contribute $5.1 million to a Unitedd Nations initiative that aims to connect thousands of schools and villages in the developing world through information and communication technologies (ICTs).

Yokohama Youngsters Carry Wishes, Yen for Better World to United Nations

 

Fifty-ninth General Assembly

Fourth Committee

21^st Meeting (PM)

Fifty-ninth General Assembly

Third Committee

34^th Meeting (AM)

Fifty-ninth General Assembly

Sixth Committee

18^th Meeting (AM)

Delegates seek precision, clarity in framing of rules on diplomatic

protection, international liability for injurious acts

 

Legal Committee Continues Debate on Law Commission Report, Written

Views Promised; Defining Nationality of Corporations Said to Be Issue

Fifty-Ninth General Assembly

Second Committee

22^nd Meeting (AM & PM)

panellists in Second Committee cite grenada’s hurricane experience to emphasize

 

need for faster international responses to natural disasters

Delegates Conclude Debate on Globalization,

Interdependence, Begin Discussing International Trade, Development

no conflict is too remote to affect local environment, Secretary-General says

in message to mark international day to prevent exploitation

Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message on the International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflicts to be observed on 6 November:

Secretary-General presents plan for strengthened, unified UN security,

saying staff ‘has to be my first priority’

 

Following are the remarks delivered today by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) on staff security:

Secretary-General Endorses statement condemning Tel Aviv suicide bombing

 

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

private sector should be alive to growing opportunities in Africa,

Secretary-General tells Tokyo Investment Conference

Following is the text of the message by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the Asia-Africa Investment and trade Conference in Tokyo, 1-2 November, delivered by Ibrahim Gambari, Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Africa: