IN MESSAGE TO ICT TASK FORCE MEETING IN DUBLIN, SECRETARY-GENERAL STRESSES

IMPORTANCE OF ICT ‘TO HELP UNLOCK THE DOOR TO EDUCATION’

 

Following is the message by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the eighth meeting of the United Nations Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) Task Force, in Dublin, 13-14 April, delivered by José Antonio Ocampo, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs:

Fifty-Ninth General Assembly

Plenary

91^st Meeting (AM)

GENERAL ASSEMBLY ADOPTS CONVENTION ON NUCLEAR TERRORISM; WILL OPEN

FOR SIGNATURE AT HEADQUARTERS 14 SEPTEMBER

Also Adopts 16 Budget Committee Texts;

Peacekeeping Finance, Reform of UN Justice System among Issues Addressed

Ad Hoc Committee on Convention

on Persons with Disabilities

1^st Meeting (PM)

AD HOC COMMITTEE ON DISABILITIES CONVENTION ELECTS

 

DON MCKAY OF NEW ZEALAND AS CHAIRMAN

 

The General Assembly Committee charged with drafting the first-ever convention on the rights and dignity of persons with disabilities elected a new Chairman in a brief organizational meeting today.

Commission on Sustainable Development

Thirteenth Session

6^th & 7^th Meetings (AM & PM)

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION CONTINUES INTERACTIVE PANEL DISCUSSIONS,

WITH FOCUS ON CONNECTIONS AMONG WATER, SANITATION, HUMAN SETTLEMENTS

Strengthened Monitoring of Water, Sanitation;

Cooperation on Transboundary Water Systems among Issues Addressed

Fifty-Ninth General Assembly

Fifth Committee

44^th Meeting (AM)

BUDGET COMMITTEE TAKES UP FINANCING FOR SUDANMISSION

 

The Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) this morning took up the financing of the United Nations Mission in the Sudan (UNMIS), for which the Secretary-General is seeking a commitment authority, with assessment, of $595.5 million gross.

SECRETARY-GENERAL CONGRATULATES GENERAL ASSEMBLY ON ADOPTION

 

OF INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION ON NUCLEAR TERRORISM

 

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

The Secretary-General congratulates the General Assembly on its adoption today by consensus of the International Convention for the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism.

COMMITTEE ON COMMODITY PROBLEMS OPENS AT FAO

 

Producer Prices Stand at Historic Lows

(Reissued as received.)

SECRETARY-GENERAL HEARTENED BY EUROPEAN COMMISSION’S PROPOSAL

FOR AMBITIOUS TARGETS FOR OFFICIAL DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE

 

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

MEETING IN MAURITIUS FOR TSUNAMI EARLY WARNING SYSTEM IN INDIAN OCEAN

(Reissued as received)

GREECE, FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA CONTINUE DISCUSSIONS

WITH SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE ON ‘NAME’ ISSUE

 

The following was received today from Matthew Nimetz, Special Representative of the Secretary-General in talks between Greece and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia: