UNIDO, SANDOZ SPONSOR GLOBAL PARTNERS SYMPOSIUM AGAINST DISEASE, POVERTY

(Reissued as received.)

VIENNA, 4 March (UNIDO) -- Some 80 participants and experts from all over the world and from several international organizations attended the Global Partners Symposium organized by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), in cooperation with Sandoz.

Economic and Social Council

2005 Organizational Session

3^rd Meeting (PM)

ECOSOC DECIDES TO CONSIDER REPORTS ON BURUNDI,

 

GUINEA-BISSAU DURING 2005 SESSION IN JULY

 

28 FEBRUARY 2005 OFFICIALLY PROCLAIMED CORPORATE PHILANTHROPY DAY IN UNITED STATES

NEW YORK, 28 February (United Nations Fund for International Partnerships) -- To recognize and promote the tremendous philanthropic work of corporations in communities around the world, New York Governor Pataki, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and US Secretary of Commerce Donald L. Evans proclaimed 28 February 2005 as “Corporate Philanthropy Day”.

Economic and Social Council

2005 Organizational Session

2^nd Meeting (PM)

Recovery in world economic growth in 2004 tempered by continuing

 

global trade imbalances, oil price uncertainties, ecosoc told

In Organizational Meeting, Council Approves Agenda for 2005 Session;

Considers NGO Status, Reports on Burundi, Guinea-Bissau, Among Other Matters

UN Report Says Strong global growth in 2005 Depends

 

on how dollar, global imbalances unwind

 

NEW YORK, 25 January (UN Department of Public Information) -- Global imbalances, and the United States trade deficit, in particular, will not be corrected by a rapidly falling US dollar, contrary to many expectations, the United Nations warns today, in an otherwise upbeat assessment of the world economy at the beginning of 2005.

Economic and Social Council

2005 Organizational Session

1^st Meeting (PM)

Fifty-ninth General Assembly

Second Committee

41^st Meeting (PM)

DRAFT RESOLUTION APPROVED BY SECOND COMMITTEE STRESSES IMPORTANCE

OF OPEN, TRANSPARENT, INCLUSIVE MULTILATERAL TRADING SYTEM

 

DelegatesPass Text on International Trade

And Development by 152 Votes in Favour, 2 Against, 6 Abstentions

Fifty-ninth General Assembly

Second Committee

40^th Meeting (PM)

SECOND COMMITTEE TEXT EMPHASIZES NEED FOR COMMODITY-DEPENDENT DEVELOPING

COUNTRIES TO ENCOURAGE DIVERSIFICATION, LIBERALIZE TRADE

 

Without Vote, Delegates Approve Six Other Drafts, Oral Decision

(Issued on 17 December 2004.)

Fifty-ninth General Assembly

Second Committee

39^th Meeting (PM)

second committee passes text recommending international support

 

for national, regional anti-corruption efforts

Acting without Vote, Delegates Approve Seven Other Draft Resolutions

Fifty-ninth General Assembly

Second Committee

38^th Meeting (PM)

text approved in second committee stresses debt relief role in freeing resources

for poverty eradication, economic growth, sustainable development

Draft Resolution on External Debt,

Six Others, Oral Decision Win Consensus Approval by Delegates