Commission on the Status of Women

Forty-ninth Session

15^th & 16^th Meetings (AM & PM)

Youth perspectives on Promotion of Gender Equality

 

Focus of Women’s Commission Panel

 

UN MEETING ON QUESTION OF PALESTINE DISCUSSES RESPONSIBILITY

OF GOVERNMENTS IN UPHOLDING INTERNATIONAL LAW

 

(Reissued as received.)

UNCTAD, JBIC TO FOSTER JAPANESE INVESTMENT IN EAST AFRICA

(Reissued as received.)

GENEVA, 9 March (UNCTAD) -- The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) have launched a joint African Investment Initiative to encourage greater investment by Japanese companies in Africa with the ultimate aim of encouraging economic growth, it was announced this morning in Geneva.

Security Council

5136^th Meeting (PM)

SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENTIAL STATEMENT WELCOMES CONCLUSIONS OF 1 MARCH

LONDON MEETING ON SUPPORT FOR PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY

 

Hopes Meeting Will Be Part of Longer-Term Support

For Palestinians, Contribution to Road Map Implementation

Round-Up of Session

UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL MEETING ON QUESTION OF PALESTINE

 

CONCLUDES TWO-DAY SESSION

 

Final Document Calls on International Community to Persuade Israel to Comply

With Opinion of International Court of Justice on Wall in Occupied Territory

(Reissued as received.)

HIGH-LEVEL MEETINGS ON FORESTS AT FAO, 14 - 19 MARCH

 

(Reissued as received.)

ROME, 9 March (FAO) -– Two high-level meetings on forestry will be held at Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) headquarters in Rome next week.  The FAO will hold the Ministerial Meeting on Forests on 14 March and the seventeenth session of the Committee on Forestry (COFO) from 15 to 19 March.  Both are open to journalists.

‘historic fundamental progress possible’ in 2005 for transforming global

 

security system, says Deputy Secretary-General in berlin address

Following is Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette’s address on the eightieth anniversary of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung in Berlin, 8 March:

SECRETARY-GENERAL PLEASED BOLIVIA AGREEMENT REACHED

THROUGH DIALOGUE, RESPECT FOR CONSTITUTION.

 

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

UN MEETING ON PALESTINE DISCUSSES ROLE OF PARLIAMENTS, CIVIL SOCIETY

IN ADVOCATING ADHERENCE TO INTERNATIONAL LAW

 

(Reissued as received.)

AID ACTIVITIES RESUME AS AN UNEASY CALM RETURNS

 

TO ITURI, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO