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WITH ENTHUSIASM AND COMMITMENT, MILLENNIUM POVERTY REDUCTION TARGETS CAN BE MET,

GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT TELLS LEAST DEVELOPED COUNTRIES CONFERENCE

Following is the text of a statement titled "How can we reach the 2015 International Development Goals?" made today by General Assembly President Harri Holkeri (Finland) at the Special Event at the Third United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries:

                                                             GA/SM/245

Resumed Fifty-fifth General Assembly

Fifth Committee

62^nd Meeting (AM)

Third UN Conference on LDCs

4^th Meeting (PM)

PARLIAMENTARIANS ROUND TABLE ADDRESSES COMMODITIES, DEVELOPMENT FINANCE

AT THIRD LEAST DEVELOPED COUNTRIES CONFERENCE IN BRUSSELS

(Received from a UN Information Officer.)

Third UN Conference on LDCs

3^rd Meeting (PM)

‘GOVERNANCE, PEACE AND SOCIAL STABILITY’ ADDRESSED IN THEMATIC SESSION

AT BRUSSELS CONFERENCE ON LEAST DEVELOPED COUNTRIES

(Received from a UN Information Officer.)

Third UN Conference on LDCs

2^nd Meeting (AM)

‘THE CHALLENGE OF ERADICATING POVERTY; INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY RESPONSE’

SPECIAL EVENT AT BRUSSELS CONFERENCE ON LEAST DEVELOPED COUNTRIES

(Received from a UN Information Officer.)

Third UN Conference on LDCs

1^st Meeting (AM)

THIRD UN CONFERENCE ON LEAST DEVELOPED COUNTRIES OPENS IN BRUSSELS;

FRANCE’S PRESIDENT SAYS WORLD’S POOREST ‘MUST BE HELPED’

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Commission on the Status of Women

Resumed Forty-fifth Session

18^th Meeting (PM)

SECRETARY-GENERAL THANKS US PRESIDENT BUSH FOR COMMITMENT

TO GLOBAL FIGHT AGAINST HIV/AIDS

Following is the text of remarks, as delivered today, by Secretary-General Kofi Annan in Washington, D.C.:

DR. NAFIS SADIK AND JAPANESE ORGANIZATION FOR INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION

IN FAMILY PLANNING WIN 2001 UNITED NATIONS POPULATION AWARD

(Reissued as received.)

      NEW YORK, 11 May (UNFPA) -- Dr. Nafis Sadik, former Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), and the Japanese Organization for International Cooperation in Family Planning will share the 2001 United Nations Population Award.