United Nations Agencies Pledge To Focus on Forgotten People
(Reissued as received.)
NEW YORK, 23 November (UNFPA) -- The United States will resume its support for the United Nations Population Fund for fiscal year 2000, which began on 1 October. The UNFPA received no United States funds in fiscal year 1999. Under foreign assistance legislation approved last week, funding will be restored to the fiscal year 1998 level of $25 million.
The following statement was issued today by the Office of the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:
Following is the statement of Secretary-General Kofi Annan at the launch of the year 2000 Consolidated Emergency Appeals in Geneva on 23 November:
The Secretary-General arrived in Istanbul in the evening of Wednesday, 17 November.
On Thursday morning, he participated in the opening ceremony of the Summit of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).
Following is the text of an address delivered this evening by Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette upon receiving an honorary degree at the University of Toronto:
The General Committee this morning recommended that the General Assembly include an item on international recognition of the Day of Vesak - the day in the year most sacred to Buddhists -- in the agenda of its fifty-fourth session and that the item be considered directly in plenary.
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