Ad Hoc Committee for Voluntary

Contributions to UNRWA

Meeting (AM)

DONOR COUNTRIES PLEDGE $47.53 MILLION FOR UNRWA'S REGULAR BUDGET FOR 2003

AT MEETING OF AD HOC COMMITTEE FOR VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Plenary

67^th Meeting (AM)

GENERAL ASSEMBLY IS TOLD 2004 OLYMPIC GAMES IN ATHENS WILL EXEMPLIFY

ROLE OF CULTURAL HERITAGE IN SOCIAL, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Debate Marks End of United Nations Year; Importance of Objectives,

Need for Global Support, Practical Measures, Financial Assistance Stressed

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

General Committee

5^th Meeting (AM)

GENERAL COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS INCLUSION OF ADDITIONAL ITEM –-

‘INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF RICE, 2004’ –- ON ASSEMBLY AGENDA

FOURTH GLOBAL FORUM ON REINVENTING GOVERNMENT

IN MARRAKECH, MOROCCO 11-13 DECEMBER

$573 MILLION IN FUNDING AGREED FOR CUTTING DEVELOPING COUNTRY CFCs BY 50 PER CENT

(Delayed for technical reasons.)

ROME, 29 November (UNEP) -- Negotiators from some 140 governments have adopted a $573 million funding package to halve the consumption and production in developing countries of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) -- the leading destroyer of the stratospheric ozone layer -- by the year 2005 (relative to a baseline of average 1995-1997 levels).

Secretary-General Kofi Annan arrived in Washington, D.C., on Sunday, 1 December, where the following day he would participate in discussion with scholars of the Woodrow Wilson Center.

‘WE CANNOT REMAIN INDIFFERENT’ ABOUT INTERFACE BETWEEN ENERGY, CLIMATE CHANGE,

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN LECTURE SERIES INTRODUCTORY REMARKS

Following are Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s remarks introducing Professor Rajendra Pachauri and Professor Nebojsa Nakiconovic in the Secretary-General’s lecture series in New York on 3 December:

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES CEASEFIRE AGREEMENT IN BURUNDI

The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

SECRETARY-GENERAL, NOTING PROGRESS IN PUBLIC HEALTH DEVELOPMENTS, SAYS THERE

REMAINS 'ENORMOUS BACKLOG OF HEALTH-RELATED DESPAIR' IN THE AMERICAS

Centenary Address to Pan American Health Organization in Washington, D.C.

This is the text of an address by Secretary-General Kofi Annan in

Security Council

4652^nd Meeting (PM)

WEATHER FACTORS, HEALTH ISSUES, CIVIL STRIFE, ECONOMIC POLICIES

WORSEN AFRICA’S FOOD CRISIS, SECURITY COUNCIL IS TOLD

40 Million People at Risk of Starvation, Says Head of World Food Programme;