Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the World Food Programme (WFP) annual World Leaders Dinner at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting, in Davos, Switzerland, today:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the World Food Programme Hunger Hero Award Ceremony: Tribute to Princess Haya, in Davos, Switzerland, today:

The following statement was issued by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today:

‘WORLD FOOD PRIZE’ AWARDED TO FORMER HEAD OF UN WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME

Secretary-General Says Leadership Has Put

Programme on Front Lines of Global Fight against Hunger, Scourge of Famine

NORTH KOREA STILL NEEDS FOOD AID DESPITE BEST HARVEST IN SIX YEARS

(Reissued as received.)

ROME, 26 October (FAO/WFP) --The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is likely to record its best harvest for six years, but with domestic food production still well below consumption requirements, the country will again need substantial external assistance in 2002, two United Nations agencies said today.

HUNGER THREATENS HALF MILLION SOMALIS

(Reissued as received.)

NAIROBI, 22 August (WFP) -- The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) warned today that more than half a million Somalis face a serious food crisis, following the almost total failure of the main rains in southern Somalia.

WFP WARNS OF POTENTIAL FOOD CRISIS IN CHECHNYA

ROME, 14 May (WFP) -- The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today urgently appealed for support to avert a potential food crisis in the northern Caucasus region of the Russian Federation, particularly Chechnya, after a severe shortfall in donations forced the agency to scale back drastically on food aid distributions despite severely deteriorating conditions there.

Press Release
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AT PRAGUE CONFERENCE, COUNTRIES JOINING EUROPEAN UNION CONSIDER ADOPTING SCHOOL MILK PROGRAMMES

ROME/PRAGUE 14 September (FAO) -- With school milk subsidies cut by 20 per cent in the European Union this year, the second European School Milk Conference opened today in Prague for two days with more than 20 countries represented, according to an announcement by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).

Press Release
WFP/1053

WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME ANNOUNCES SUCCESSFUL AIRDROPS IN EAST TIMOR

ROME, 17 September (WFP) – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said that the first humanitarian airdrops were completed successfully in East Timor today, with the delivery of desperately needed food and blankets to tens of thousands of people hiding in the mountains from political violence.

Press Release
WFP/1052

FOOD PRODUCTION IN KOSOVO DOWN BY 65 PER CENT; UN FOOD AGENCIES WARN OF SERIUS NUTRITIONAL AND ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES