NEW OLIVE AGREEMENT COMES UP FOR ADOPTION

(Reissued as received.)

GENEVA, 22 April (UNCTAD) -- Member States of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) will meet for five days beginning Monday to consider adoption of a new International Agreement on Olive Oil and Table Olives.

SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN MESSAGE TO REGIONAL SUMMIT, CALLS ON BURUNDI’S LEADERS

TO TAKE LAST STEP TOWARDS MEETING ASPIRATIONS OF THEIR PEOPLE

He Pledges Continued United Nations Support for Electoral Process

CRIMINALIZATION OF COMPUTER WRONGDOING PREREQUISITE

FOR COMBATING CYBERCRIME, WORKSHOP TOLD

Speakers in Crime Congress Workshop Address Evolving Nature

Of Cybercrime, Digital Divide, Harmonization of Laws, Cooperation with Private Sector

(Received from a UN Information Officer.)

INTERNALLY DISPLACED IN NEPAL OVERLOOKED, NEGLECTED,

 

UN EXPERT SAYS AFTER MISSION

(Reissued as received.)

GENEVA, 22 April (UN Information Service) -- “Internally displaced persons in Nepal have been largely overlooked and neglected”, the Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) said today at the end of a mission to that country.

Commission on Sustainable Development

Thirteenth Session

17^th & 18^th Meetings (AM & PM)

TUNISIA SENDING FARMING EXPERTS TO TOGO UNDER SOUTH-SOUTH COOPERATION

AGREEMENT TO HELP TAKE FOOD SECURITY ACTIVITIES NATIONWIDE

 

(Reissued as received.)

ROME, 22 April (FAO) -- Tunisia is sending 20 farming experts and technicians to Togo to work with local experts, as part of an agreement signed today between the two countries and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).

Background Release

COMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS TO HOLD

 

THIRTY-FOURTH SESSION FROM 25 APRIL TO 13 MAY 2005

Reports of Zambia, China, Serbia and Montenegro, Norway to be Considered

(Reissued as received.)

25,000 DISPLACED PERSONS AT RISK, AS MILITARY EFFORTS TO DISARM MILITIAS

IN EASTERN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO BLOCK HUMANITARIAN ACCESS

Fifty-Ninth General Assembly

Plenary

93^rd Meeting (AM)

GENERAL ASSEMBLY AUTHORIZES BUDGET OF $595.5 MILLION FOR INITIAL

ESTABLISHMENT OF UNITED NATIONS PEACEKEEPING MISSION IN SUDAN

Adopting Resolution Without a Vote, Assembly

Expresses Concern Over Financial Situation Regarding Peacekeeping

SECRETARY-GENERAL REITERATES CALL FOR RESTRAINT, DIALOGUE IN ECUADOR,

AS VICE-PRESIDENT ASSUMES PRESIDENCY

 

The following statement was issued on 20 April by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

The Secretary-General has learned that the Vice-President of Ecuador, Alfredo Palacio, has assumed the functions of the presidency.