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NGO/412
11/05/2001
Press Release
NGO/412


Committee on NGOs

2001 Session

9th Meeting (AM)


NGO COMMITTEE CONSIDERS CASE OF FREEDOM HOUSE


The Committee on Non-governmental Organizations (NGOs) this morning considered the case of Freedom House, a United States-based NGO, as it began its consideration of special reports and complaints by Governments.    

DEV/2305
11/05/2001
Press Release
DEV/2305


Background Release


THIRD UN CONFERENCE ON LEAST DEVELOPED COUNTRIES IN BRUSSELS, 14 - 20 MAY;

TO CONFRONT ECONOMIC ISOLATION OF ‘POOREST OF THE POOR’


Global policy-makers will confront the economic isolation and severe poverty of the world's 49 poorest countries at the Third United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries, which will be convened in Brussels, Belgium, from 14 to 20 May.

SG/SM/7799-REC/100
10/05/2001
Press Release
SG/SM/7799
REC/100


SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS WESTERN ASIAN STATES THEY CAN COUNT ON HIS SUPPORT

IN THEIR WORK FOR STABILITY, PROSPERITY AND PEACE


Following is the text of a message from Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the twenty-first session of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), delivered today in Beirut by ESCWA Executive Secretary Mervat Tallawy: