High-level Committee on Review of TCDC

12^th Session

4^th Meeting (PM)

CONTRIBUTION OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY TO DEVELOPMENT

FOCUS OF DISCUSSION IN HIGH-LEVEL COMMITTEE

High-level Committee on Review of TCDC

12^th Session

3^rd Meeting (AM)

LACK OF FINANCING MAJOR OBSTACLE TO IMPROVED TECHNICAL COOPERATION

AMONG DEVELOPING COUNTRIES, HIGH-LEVEL COMMITTEE TOLD

UNITED NATIONS EXPERT GROUP MEETING TO EXAMINE SITUATION

OF RURAL WOMEN, GLOBALIZATION

New York, 29 May (Department of Economic and Social Affairs) -- The Division for the Advancement of Women in collaboration with the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), will convene an expert group meeting on the "Situation of rural women within the context of globalization" in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, from

TURTLE RESCUE TEAM AMONG 18 INDIVIDUALS, ORGANIZATIONS

HONOURED ON WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY 2001

IN WAKE OF YESTERDAY’S COUP ATTEMPT, SECRETARY-GENERAL CALLS ON PEOPLE

OF CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC TO RESPECT DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTIONS

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

PUBLIC SECTOR CORRUPTION WEAKENS DEMOCRACY, ENCOURAGES ORGANIZED CRIME,

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN MESSAGE TO GLOBAL FORUM

Following is the message of Secretary-General Kofi Annan, delivered on his behalf by Jan van Dijk, Director, United Nations Centre for International Crime Prevention, to the Global Forum on Fighting Corruption and Safeguarding Integrity at The Hague on 28 May:

Secretary-General CALLS FOR RESTRAINT, STATESMANSHIP IN MIDDLE EAST,

IN MESSAGE TO EMERGENCY MEETING OF ISLAMIC CONFERENCE

                                                                  Note No. 5668

CARIBBEAN REGIONAL SEMINAR ON DECOLONIZATION CLOSES WITH CALL FOR FULFILMENT

OF 'SACRED RIGHT' TO SELF-DETERMINATION

(Received from a UN Information Officer.)

High-level Committee on Review of TCDC

12^th Session

2^nd Meeting (PM)

TECHNICAL COOPERATION AMONG DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

STILL SHACKLED BY RESOURCE CONSTRAINTS