Press Release

Security Council                                           

INDIA BECOMES TWENTY-FOURTH COUNTRY TO SIGN ASIAN HIGHWAY AGREEMENT

SHANGHAI, 27 April (ESCAP) -- A United Nations-backed push to complete a 140,000 kilometre network of standardized roadways criss-crossing the Asian continent and reaching to Europe received an added boost today, when India became the twenty-fourth country to sign a legally binding international agreement.

Committee on Information                                   

NEW WEB SITE PROVIDES INFORMATION ON UN MEETING ON SMALLISLANDS,

MAURITIUS, 30 AUGUST – 3 SEPTEMBER

NEW YORK, 26 April (DPI) -- The United Nations has launched today a new Web site on the international conference on small island developing States to be held in Mauritius, from 30 August to 3 September 2004, available on:

Commission on Sustainable Development                      

Twelfth Session                                            

Preparatory Committee                                      

locust threat puts Moroccan citrus crop at risk

$17 Million Needed for Control Campaigns

(Reissued as received.)

Rome, 27 April (FAO) -- Despite intensive control efforts, the threat of desert locusts in West and North-West Africa remains “extremely serious”, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warned today.

General Assembly president, marking decade of south african freedom,

says un gave international direction to anti-apartheid struggle

The following is the text of remarks by the President of the General Assembly, His Excellency Julian R. Hunte at the commemorative meeting for 10 years of freedom in South Africa: the role of the United Nations, today, 27 April 2004:

South Africa                                               

Secretary-General stresses importance of healthy environment for development,

in message to ‘asia and the pacific 2020’ meeting

Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’smessage to the meeting of the “Visionary Panel for Asia and the Pacific 2020”, delivered by Kim Hak-Su, Executive Secretary, Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, in Shanghai, 26 April: