| Press Release ENV/DEV/689 |
POLITICAL WILL, SELF-RELIANCE HIGHLIGHTED AS CRITICAL FOR IMPLEMENTING
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AT WORLD SUMMIT ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION
(Received from a UN Information Officer.)
| Press Release ENV/DEV/688 |
INITIATIVE TO GROW SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS IN WORLD'S POOREST COUNTRIES
ANNOUNCED AT JOHANNESBURG WORLD SUMMIT
(Received from a UN Information Officer.)
| Press Release ENV/DEV/687 |
SOLUTIONS ARE UNDERSTOOD -- WILL TO IMPLEMENT THEM STILL MISSING,
BELGIUM'S PRIME MINISTER TELLS SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT SUMMIT
Says Agreed Language in Summit Text on Trade Disappointing;
African Leaders Call for Efforts on Food Security, Water Needs, HIV/AIDS
(Received from a UN Information Officer.)
| Press Release ENV/DEV/686 |
'RESPONSIBILITY' -- FOR EACH OTHER, FOR PLANET -- EMBODIES SUMMIT'S HOPES,
SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL, AS JOHANNESBURG'S HIGH-LEVEL SEGMENT BEGINS
South Africa's President Says World Leaders
Must Send Message They Intend to End 'Global Apartheid'
(Received from a UN Information Officer.)
| Press Release ENV/DEV/685 |
AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY, LAND RECLAMATION AMONG ISSUES ADDRESSED
IN FINAL PARTNERSHIP INITIATIVE ANNOUNCED AT WORLD SUMMIT
(Received from a UN Information Officer.)
| Press Release ENV/DEV/684 |
ADDITIONAL PARTNERSHIP INITIATIVES ANNOUNCED IN JOHANNESBURG AIMED
AT SUMMIT'S ECOLOGICAL IMPACT, CHILDHOOD LEAD POISONING
(Received from a UN Information Officer.)
| Press Release ENV/DEV/683 |
WORLDWIDE MARKETING CAMPAIGN TO PROMOTE SUSTAINABILITY
AMONG PARTNERSHIP INITIATIVES ANNOUNCED AT SUMMIT
(Received from a UN Information Officer.)
JOHANNESBURG, 31 August -- Projects focusing on research, communications, sustainable agriculture, rural development and preservation of biodiversity were among the partnerships announced at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg this morning.
The Secretary-General flew from Botswana to Lesotho on Wednesday morning, 28 August.
The Secretary-General arrived in Gaborone, Botswana, in the morning of Tuesday, 27 August.
| Press Release SG/SM/8355 DC/2839 |
IF EFFECTIVENESS OF UN ARMS REGISTER IS STRENGTHENED, IT CAN SERVE
AS SIGNIFICANT EARLY-WARNING MECHANISM, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS
Following is the message by Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the United Nations Register of Conventional Arms,
30 August 2002:
