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BRUSSELS CONFERENCE COMMITS TO ERADICATING POVERTY IN WORLD’S POOREST COUNTRIES;

DECADE-LONG ACTION PROGRAMME CALLS FOR PARTNERSHIP, ‘MUTUAL COMMITMENTS’

(Received from a UN Information Officer.)

‘FINANCING GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT’ FINAL THEMATIC SESSION

AT BRUSSELS CONFERENCE ON LEAST DEVELOPED COUNTRIES

(Received from a UN Information Officer.)

WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS IN POOREST COUNTRIES FACE FORMIDABLE CHALLENGES,

INCLUDING LACK OF TRAINING, CREDIT, SAY SPEAKERS AT BRUSSELS FORUM

(Received from a UN Information Officer.)

IMPORTANCE OF INFRASTRUCTURE TO DEVELOPMENT, POVERTY REDUCTION

STRESSED AT THEMATIC SESSION OF BRUSSELS CONFERENCE

(Received from a UN Information Officer.)

BRUSSELS, 21 May -- Building infrastructure –- roads, bridges, communications -- was a means for wider development ends, such as poverty reduction, although that link was often still poorly understood, the Third United Nations Conference on Least Developed Countries was told this morning.

 WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME FEEDS AFGHANS AT JALOZAI CAMP

(Reissued as received.)

ISLAMABAD, 21 May (WFP) -- The World Food Programme today started distributing food supplies to more than 70,000 poor Afghans who have been living in a squalid camp near Peshawar, Pakistan, for the past five months.

INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL BOARD TO FOCUS ON HIGH TECH

CHALLENGES TO DRUG LAW ENFORCEMENT

(Reissued as received.)

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CORRUPTION CENTRAL THEME OF CRIME COMMISSION MEETING

(Reissued as received.)

On Wednesday, 16 May, Secretary-General Kofi Annan departed Moscow to Geneva, stopping overnight in Amsterdam.

SECRETARY-GENERAL DEEPLY DISTURBED BY DISPROPORTIONATE ISRAELI RESPONSE

TO APPALLING TERRORIST ATTACK

Following is the text of a statement made today by Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the escalation of violence in the Middle East:

I am deeply disturbed by the disproportionate Israeli response to today's appalling terrorist attack in Netanya.