Ten Years on, UNFPA Reports Uneven Progress in Implementing

Landmark Population and Development Consensus

 

Funding Gap Imperils Efforts to Reduce Maternal

Deaths, Prevent HIV/AIDS and Ensure Reproductive Rights

Note to Correspondents

WORLD LEADERS TO LAUNCH DISCUSSION ON ‘FAIR GLOBALIZATION’

AT HEADQUARTERS, 20 SEPTEMBER

GENERAL COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS AGENDA FOR fifty-ninth GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Decides Once Again Not to Recommend Inclusion of Item on ‘Representation of Republic of China (Taiwan)’

Women key to resolving armed conflicts, Deputy Secretary-General

says at opening of Gender justice Conference

 

Following are the opening remarks by Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette at “Peace Needs Women, and Women Need Justice”, a conference on gender justice in post-conflict situations, delivered today in New York:

 

UNEP and Iraqi Environment Ministry to Assess Key Polluted Sites

(Reissued as received.)

NAIROBI/GENEVA, 14 September (UNEP) -- Environmental “hot spots” in Iraq are to be investigated as part of a long-term plan to clean up the country after well over a decade of instability and conflict, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) announced today.

‘HERE TODAY WE ARE ONE’, A SINGLE HUMAN FAMILY UNITED, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL

IN REMARKS AT ANNUAL INTERFAITH SERVICE

Following are Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s remarks at the annual Interfaith Service of Commitment to the Work of the United Nations at St. Bartholomew’s Church, New York, 14 September:

SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN REMARKS AT HOLYFAMILYCHURCH, SAYS SERVICE OFFERS

SOLACE, SOURCE OF STRENGTH AS UN PREPARES FOR TRIALS AHEAD

Following are Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s remarks at the HolyFamilyChurch in New York, 13 September:

Let me thank the Parish of the HolyFamilyChurch for organizing this service, as it does every year.

‘BLUE FLAG’ FLYING IN IRAQ, BUT LIGHT FOOTPRINT UNAVOIDABLE

IN CURRENT SECURITY SITUATION, SECURITY COUNCIL TOLD

Secretary-General’s Special Representative Briefs Council,

Says UN Mission Committed to Assisting Fair, Credible Electoral Process

SECURITY COUNCIL EXTENDS ETHIOPIA-ERITREA MISSION UNTIL 15 MARCH 2005,

UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTING RESOLUTION 1560 (2004)

Concerned at the lack of progress in the border demarcation between Ethiopia and Eritrea, the Security Council this morning approved a six-month mandate extension of the United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE).

NEW DATA SHOW SIZEABLE DROP IN NUMBERS OF WASTED FISH

Are Better Fishing Practices Responsible

For Decrease, or Are There Just Fewer Fish to Waste?

(Reissued as received.)