RECENT ATTACKS TRAGIC REMINDERS FIGHT AGAINST TERRORISM

FAR FROM OVER, SECURITY COUNCIL TOLD

Chair of Sanctions Committee Aimed at Al-Qaida/Taliban Briefs

FAO, European Commission forge strategic partnership to achieve development goals

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BRUSSELS/ROME, 13 September (FAO) -- The European Commission and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) today signed a strategic partnership agreement designed to reinforce their joint efforts to reduce poverty, promote agricultural development and fight hunger in developing countries.

UNIDO launches two projects to assist the people of Timor-Leste

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Note to Correspondents

UN Population Fund to Launch ‘The State of World Population 2004’ 15 September

Highlights Progress, Challenges 10 Years after Landmark Population Consensus

UN EXPERT DEPLORES UZBEKISTAN’S LACK OF COOPERATION

 

WITH UN HUMAN RIGHTS MECHANISMS

 

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GENEVA, 13 September (UN Information Service) -- The Special Rapporteur on torture of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights made the following statement today:

COMMITTEE ON RIGHTS OF CHILDREN OPENS THIRTY-SEVENTH SESSION

Hears Statement by Chief of Treaty and Commission Branch of Office

Of High Commissioner for Human Rights; Adopts Agenda, Programme of Work

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International Conference

in Support of the Palestinian People

AM & PM Meetings

Fifty-Eighth General Assembly

Plenary

95^th Meeting (PM)

GENERAL ASSEMBLY CONCLUDES FIFTY-EIGHTH SESSION

The General Assembly closed its fifty-eighth substantive session this afternoon, with outgoing President, Julian Robert Hunte (Saint Lucia), praising the body’s genuine drive to overcome the crisis of confidence that had gripped the United Nations in the wake of the war in Iraq.

UNITED NATIONS ENCOURAGES GULF COUNTRIES TO INCREASE SUPPORT TO SUDAN

Secretary-General praises global festival’s commitment to peace,

understanding in message to first world culture open

 

Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message to the World Culture Open (WCO), delivered by Maurice Strong, Special Adviser and Personal Envoy of the Secretary-General, in New York, 10 September: