Press Release


GA/AB/3523
17/10/2002
Press Release
GA/AB/3523


Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Fifth Committee

10th Meeting (AM)


FIFTH COMMITTEE CONTINUES EXAMINATION OF BOARD OF AUDITORS REPORTS


United States, Norway Underline Need

For Timely Publication of Reports, Full Implementation of Board’s Recommendations

SG/T/2345

Secretary-General Kofi Annan, who left New York on Saturday, arrived on Sunday evening in Hangzhou, an attractive and prosperous lakeside city in a silk-producing region south of Shanghai that is said to have captured nearly a third of the world market in silk ties.

SG/SM/8440-ENV/DEV/706
16/10/2002
Press Release
SG/SM/8440
ENV/DEV/706


FIGHTING POVERTY, PROTECTING ENVIRONMENT ARE MUTUALLY


REINFORCING GOALS, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS


Following is the message of Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the Second Assembly of the Global Environment Facility, delivered by Klaus Töpfer, Executive Director, United Nations Environment Programme in Beijing today: