Press Release

developing countries must integrate anti-poverty goals into policy, budgets,

improve governance says Secretary-General in video message

Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s 21 July video message [for southern audiences] on the Millennium Development Goals:

Dear Friends,

You are here today because you believe in a better world.  So do I.

Today, it is fully within our power to eradicate poverty and hunger.

SECURITY COUNCIL COMMITTEE ON DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO

CLARIFIES MEDIA INACCURACIES REGARDING EXPERT REPORT

WOMEN’S ANTI-DISCRIMINATION COMMITTEE URGES IRAQ’S INTERIM GOVERNMENT

TO ENSURE GENDER EQUALITY AND NON-DISCRIMINATION OF WOMEN

The following statement was issued today by the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW):

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SECRETARY-GENERAL’S ADVISORY BOARD SEEKS WAYS TO MEET

UN DEVELOPMENT GOALS ON WATER, SANITATION

New York, 22 July 2004 -- A group of high-level experts appointed by United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan will come together for the first time today and tomorrow, to consider ways to mobilize political support and financial resources to ensure that the world stays on track to meet the development targets on water and sanitation.

MOUNTING CHALLENGES TO NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT, NON-PROLIFERATION THEME OF

UN CONFERENCE IN SAPPORO, JAPAN, 26-29 JULY

United Nations TACKLES FOOD INSECURITY IN KENYA

NEW YORK, 22 July (OCHA) -- United Nations agencies will soon be appealing for international aid on behalf of the Kenyan Government, which has requested assistance to help overcome poor rainfall and severe crop failure.

UN RESPONDS TO FLOODS, LANDSLIDES IN AFGHANISTAN

NEW YORK, 22 July (OCHA) -- United Nations agencies -- together with the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), the Afghan Government and other partners -- are distributing relief items in the north-eastern province of Badakshan.

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TRANSCRIPT OF PRESS CONFERENCE BY SECRETARY-GENERAL KOFI ANNAN

AT UNITED NATIONS HEADQUARTERS, 21 July 2004

The Secretary-General: Good Morning, Ladies and Gentlemen,

I have just come from the Security Council, where I joined Jan Pronk, my Special Representative, to brief the Council on the situation in Sudan and Darfur.