Press Release

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS TO HIGHLIGHT MIGRATION, POPULATION ISSUES

NEW YORK, 22 March (UN Population Division) -- Three keynote speakers will examine global concerns at this week’s meeting of the Commission on Population and Development at United Nations Headquarters.

Lack of Funds For Cairo Consensus Threatens World’s Poverty

Reduction, Development Goals, UNFPA Warns

Commission on Population and Development                   

Thirty-seventh Session                                     

1^st & 2^nd Meetings (AM & PM)

Human Rights Committee                                     

Fifty-eighth General Assembly                              

UNODC TARGETS HIV/AIDS, DRUG ABUSE IN NEW RADIO SPOTS IN SPANISH

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VIENNA, 22 March (UN Information Service) -- The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) today released new radio spots in Spanish to encourage authority figures to talk to youth about the dangerous links between HIV/AIDS and drugs.

UNITED NATIONS COMMISSION ON NARCOTIC DRUGS CONCLUDES SESSION,

CALLS FOR ENHANCED DRUG CONTROL EFFORTS

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VIENNA, 19 March (UN Information Service) -- The Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND), the central policy-making body within the United Nations system dealing with drug-related matters, concluded its forty-seventh session in Vienna today.

SECRETARY-GENERAL THANKS WINNERS OF ‘UN 21’ AWARDS

FOR HELPING RENEW, STRENGTHEN ORGANIZATION

Following are Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s remarks on the occasion of the UN 21 Awards in New York, 19 March:

Dear colleagues, let me tell you how happy I am to join you at this UN 21 award ceremony and to be able to meet the winners.

SECRETARY-GENERAL REITERATES CALL FOR RATIFICATION OF KYOTO PROTOCOL ON TENTH

ANNIVERSARY OF CLIMATE CHANGE CONVENTION’S ENTRY INTO FORCE

Following is the message by Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the tenth anniversary of the entry into force of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, 21 March 2004:

FAO/OIE CAUTIOUS ABOUT DECLARING VICTORY OVER AVIAN FLU IN ASIA

Virus Still Not Under Control Despite

Improvements; In-Depth Investigations are Crucial

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