Press Release

FIFTH COMMITTEE APPROVES NEARLY $1 MILLION IN ADDITIONAL RESOURCES FOR GENERAL

ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT, DEFERS ACTION ON CAPITAL MASTER PLAN

Concluding 59^th Session, Committee Informed That Loan Interest Rate

For Master Plan, if Accepted after October, Would Not Exceed 5.35 Per Cent

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IN REMARKS TO WOMEN SPEAKERS OF PARLIAMENTS, DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS

PROMOTING WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT CENTRAL TO ACHIEVING MILLENNIUM GOALS

Following is the text of remarks as delivered by Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette at a meeting of women speakers of parliaments in New York today:

UNITED NATIONS TO HOLD SYMPOSIUM ON SPACE SYSTEMS

FOR PROTECTING, RESTORING WATER RESOURCES

(Reissued as received.)

WITHOUT VITAL ROLE OF NGOS, WORLD COULD HARDLY RESPOND TO MYRIAD CRISES,

UN SECRETARY-GENERAL ANNAN TELLS DPI/NGO CONFERENCE

Calls on NGOs to Assess Summit ’s Outcome Document

IN MESSAGE TO HELSINKI CONFERENCE, SECRETARY-GENERAL CALLS FOR RESOLVE

‘TO TURN THE PROMISE OF COLLECTIVE SOLUTIONS INTO REALITY’

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BUSINESS MAKING CRITICAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS

Tenth International Business Forum to Address

Role of Private Sector in Development, 11-13 September

ADDRESSING PARLIAMENTARIANS, SECRETARY-GENERAL ANNAN SAYS WORLD SUMMIT IS CHANCE

To Implement Shared Vision for Development, Security, Human Rights, Reform

IN REMARKS TO ‘UNITED CITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS’, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS

LOCAL ACTION NEEDED TO ACHIEVE GLOBAL GOALS

Following is the text of today’s remarks, as delivered, by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to “ United Cities and Local Governments” in New York: