Press Release


SG/SM/9486-IAEA1361
20/09/2004
Press Release
SG/SM/9486
IAEA1361

IAEA’S ROLE IN MAINTENANCE OF INTERNATIONAL SECURITY IS AS VITAL AS EVER,


SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS AGENCY’S GENERAL CONFERENCE


Following is the message by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the forty-eighth General Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna, as delivered today by Nobuyasu Abe, Under-Secretary-General for Disarmament Affairs:

SG/SM/9485-ECO/72
20/09/2004
Press Release
SG/SM/9485
ECO/72

Secretary-General stresses key role of private sector in development,


in message to World Industrial, Commercial Summit in Beijing

 


Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message to the summit of the World Industrial and Commercial Organization, delivered in Beijing on 19 September by Kim Hak-Su, Executive-Secretary, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP):

SC/8192
20/09/2004
Press Release
SC/8192

SECURITY COUNCIL COMMITTEE ON SIERRA LEONE ISSUES REVISED LIST


The Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1132 (1997) concerning Sierra Leone, on 20 September 2004, decided to remove sixteen names from the list of individuals affected by the measures contained in paragraph 5 of resolution 1171 (1998), which reads as follows:


“The Security Council...

SAG/295
20/09/2004
Press Release
SAG/295

Global cereal output rises on par with consumption

 


(Reissued as received.)


ROME, 20 September (FAO) -- The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) today raised its latest 2004 cereal output forecast by 29 million tons to 1,985 million tons compared to its previous projection in June 2004.

IHA/945
20/09/2004
Press Release
IHA/945

UN AIDS JAMAICA, GRENADA IN AFTERMATH OF HURRICANES


NEW YORK, 20 September (OCHA) -- In Grenada and Jamaica, United Nations agencies are rushing to meet emergency needs created by hurricanes that devastated the Caribbean last week.

SC/8191
18/09/2004
Press Release
SC/8191

Security Council

5040th Meeting (PM)


SECURITY COUNCIL DECLARES INTENTION TO CONSIDER SANCTIONS TO OBTAIN SUDAN’S


FULL COMPLIANCE WITH SECURITY, DISARMAMENT OBLIGATIONS ON DARFUR


Adopting Resolution 1564 (2004) by Vote of 11-0-4, Calls on Secretary-

General to Set Up Commission of Inquiry to Investigate Human Rights Violations

SC/8190
17/09/2004
Press Release
SC/8190

Security Council

5039th Meeting (AM)


Briefing Security Council on Middle East, UN Official Notes resumption


of suicide bombings, increasing casualties on both sides

 


Says Israel Released Tenders for 1,001 New Housing Units in West Bank

On 17 August; Palestinian Authority Failed to Act to End Violence, Combat Terror