| Press Release DEV/2275 PI/1323 |
UN SECRETARY-GENERAL OFFERS GLOBAL PLAN ON DEVELOPMENT FINANCES
Report Proposes Reforms for Crisis Prevention, Global Tax Loopholes,
Market Access and National Financial and Legal Infrastructures
| Press Release DEV/2274 POP/785 |
POP/785
High Levels of Civic Engagement Mean Lower Levels Of Communal Strife, Says Secretary-General in Keynote Speech
Committee Approves Text on Substantive Preparatory Process and Event
Six NGOs Provisionally Approved For Accreditation in Preparatory Process and Event Itself
Member States were commended for their continued support of United Nations development activities, as the annual two-day United Nations Pledging Conference for Development Activities concluded this morning.
Twenty-one Member States pledged their contributions to support the development activities of the United Nations system, as the annual two-day United Nations Pledging Conference for Development Activities began this morning.
As it resumed its first substantive session this morning, the Preparatory Committee for the High-Level International Intergovernmental Event on Financing for Development provisionally approved 12 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) for accreditation in the preparatory process and the Event.
NEW YORK, 28 September -- Agriculture, often given short shrift in development planning, can play a key and even a leading role in breaking out of the vicious cycles in which many poor countries are trapped, the authors of the United Nations World Economic and Social Survey 2000 contend.
NEW YORK (DESA), 11 September -- The Government of Japan has contributed 642 million yen for financing the activities of the United Nations Centre for Regional Development during the fiscal year 20002001, the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), the executing agency for the project, announced today.
