Committee on NGOs

2001 Session

14^th Meeting (PM)

NGO COMMITTEE TAKES NOTE OF 46 REPORTS FROM ORGANIZATIONS

IN CONSULTATIVE STATUS WITH ECOSOC, DEFERS 11 OTHERS

Committee on NGOs

2001 Session

13^th Meeting (AM)

COMMITTEE ON NGOS TAKES NOTE OF REPORTS BY 41 ORGANIZATIONS,

DEFERS 21 REPORTS PENDING CLARIFICATION

The Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) this morning took note of 41 quadrennial reports submitted by organizations having general or special consultative status with the Economic and Social Council.  It deferred

Resumed Fifty-fifth General Assembly

Fifth Committee

63^rd Meeting (AM) 

FIFTH COMMITTEE DISCUSSES REIMBURSEMENT TO STATES

FOR PEACEKEEPING TROOPS

CITY-TO-CITY COOPERATION DISCUSSED AT ‘MEETING OF MAYORS’,

PART OF BRUSSELS CONFERENCE ON LEAST DEVELOPED COUNTRIES

(Received from a UN Information Officer.)

‘QUANTUM LEAP’ IN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY SYSTEMS OF LEAST DEVELOPED COUNTRIES

CALLED FOR AT THEMATIC SESSION OF BRUSSELS CONFERENCE

(Received from a UN Information Officer.)

BRUSSELS, 15 May -- “Intellectual Property and Development -- An Instrument for Wealth Creation” was the topic of an interactive thematic session held this afternoon, as the Third United Nations Conference on Least Developed Countries continued in Brussels.

Third UN Conference on LDCs

5^th Meeting (AM)

ENHANCING AGRICULTURAL CAPACITY OF LEAST DEVELOPED COUNTRIES

ADDRESSED AT THEMATIC SESSION OF BRUSSELS CONFERENCE

(Received from a UN Information Officer.)

Secretary-General Kofi Annan travelled to Washington in the afternoon of Wednesday, 9 May.

IN BRUSSELS, SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS

TO CAMPAIGN FOR GENUINELY OPEN MARKETS

Following is the statement by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the Non-Governmental Forum at the Third United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries, delivered in Brussels this morning:

Thank you for that very warm welcome.

As you know I have left the Conference to come and talk to you.

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES FORMATION OF NATIONAL UNITY GOVERNMENT

IN FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA

Following is the text of a statement issued today by the Office of Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

‘BEST HOPE’ FOR LEAST DEVELOPED COUNTRIES WOULD BE NEW ROUND OF GLOBAL TRADE

NEGOTIATIONS, SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS SPECIAL EVENT ON POVERTY ERADICATION

Following is the opening statement by Secretary-General Kofi Annan at the Special Event on the Challenge of Eradicating Poverty for Sustainable Development at the Third United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries, delivered in Brussels this morning.