MILLENNIUM SUMMIT TARGETS CANNOT BE MET WITHOUT RESOURCES FOR DEVELOPMENT,

SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS PANEL

Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s opening remarks at the first meeting of the High-level Panel on Financing for Development in New York today:

Fifty-fifth General Assembly

Plenary

91^st Meeting (AM)

ASSEMBLY CALLS FOR ASSISTANCE TO BOLIVIA IN AFTERMATH OF FLOODING, DECIDES

ON NGO PARTICIPATION ARRANGEMENTS AT UPCOMING SPECIAL SESSION ON CHILDREN

Commission for Social Development

2^nd Meeting (PM)

SOCIAL SECURITY REFORM MUST BUILD ON EXISTING SYSTEMS,

COMMISSION ON SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT TOLD

Commission for Social Development

1^st Meeting (AM)

Security Council

4277^th Meeting* (AM)

UNDER-SECRETARY-GENERAL FOR PEACEKEEPING BRIEFS SECURITY COUNCIL ON KOSOVO;

DESCRIBES PROGRESS TOWARDS PROVINCE-WIDE ELECTIONS

Council Members Stress Concerns on Recent Violence in Mitrovica,

Preparatory Committee for the

High-level International

 Intergovernmental Event on

 Financing for Development

4^th Meeting (PM)

Preparatory Committee for the

High-level International

 Intergovernmental Event on

 Financing for Development

3^rd Meeting (AM)

NEW INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL SYSTEM REQUIRED TO MEET NEEDS

OF DEVELOPING COUNTRIES, PREPARATORY COMMITTEE TOLD

United States Warns against Changing Mandates of IMF and World Bank

AD HOC GROUP OF STATES PARTIES TO BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS

CONVENTION OPENS TWENTY-SECOND SESSION

URBANIZATION OF POVERTY ONE OF NEW MILLENNIUM’S BIGGEST GLOBAL CHALLENGES,

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN MESSAGE TO UN COMMISSION ON HUMAN SETTLEMENTS

Following is the message of Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the eighteenth session of the United Nations Commission on Human Settlements, delivered on his behalf by Anna Kajumulo Tibaijuka, Executive Director of the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (HABITAT), in Nairobi on 12 February:

HIGH-LEVEL EVENT ON DEVELOPMENT FINANCING CAN MARK TURNING POINT FOR POOR,

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN STATEMENT TO PREPARATORY COMMITTEE

Following is the statement of Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the Preparatory Committee for the High-level intergovernmental Event on Financing for Development in New York on 12 February: