Press Release


SC/7608
18/12/2002
Press Release
SC/7608


Security Council

4674th Meeting (AM)


IMPORTANCE OF FULL COOPERATION WITH FORMER YUGOSLAVIA, RWANDA TRIBUNALS

STRESSED BY SECURITY COUNCIL IN PRESIDENTIAL STATEMENT


The Security Council this morning stressed the importance it attaches to the full cooperation by all States, particularly those directly concerned, with the International Tribunal for Rwanda and the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.

POP/848
18/12/2002
Press Release
POP/848


ASIAN, PACIFIC COUNTRIES REAFFIRM COMMITMENT TO REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH,

RIGHTS, AS BANGKOK MEETING CONCLUDES


United Nations Population Fund Welcomes Conference Plan of Action to Fight Poverty

BANGKOK, 17 December -- The United Nations Population Fund UNFPA) today hailed a pledge by Asian and Pacific governments to give priority to population and reproductive health concerns in their work to reduce poverty.

SG/SM/8565-AFG/216
17/12/2002
Press Release
SG/SM/8565
AFG/216


SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES MEETING OF AFGHAN SUPPORT GROUP TO CONTINUE

TO INVEST IN RECOVERY AND SECURITY OF AFGHANISTAN


Following is the message by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the meeting of the Afghan Support Group, delivered by Lakhdar Brahimi, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Afghanistan, in Oslo today: