Fifty-ninth General Assembly

Fifth Committee

34^th Meeting (AM)

PROCUREMENT REFORM, OUTSOURCING PRACTICES, PEACEKEEPING AIR SAFETY

VITAL TO CURRENT, FUTURE UN OPERATIONS, BUDGET COMMITTEE TOLD

Resumed Session Begins at Headquarters;

Capital Master Plan, Peacekeeping Finance, Among Other Issues on Agenda

UNIDO, SANDOZ SPONSOR GLOBAL PARTNERS SYMPOSIUM AGAINST DISEASE, POVERTY

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VIENNA, 4 March (UNIDO) -- Some 80 participants and experts from all over the world and from several international organizations attended the Global Partners Symposium organized by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), in cooperation with Sandoz.

United Nations INTERNATIONAL MEETING ON QUESTION OF PALESTINE

 

TO BE HELD AT PALAIS DES NATIONS, GENEVA 8 - 9 MARCH

 

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GENEVA, 4 March (UN Information Service) -- The Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People will convene a United Nations International Meeting on the Question of Palestine on 8 and 9 March 2005 at the United Nations Office at Geneva. 

Commission on the Status of Women

Forty-ninth Session

9^th Meeting (AM)

THIRTY-YEAR UN EFFORT TO PROMOTE GENDER EQUALITY CELEBRATED

AT INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY HEADQUARTERS OBSERVANCE

 

NUCLEAR NON-PROLIFERATION TREATY ‘TRUE CORNERSTONE’ OF GLOBAL SECURITY,

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERALON AGREEMENT’S THIRTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY

 

Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s statement on the thirty-fifth anniversary of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), issued in New York, 4 March:

Commission on the Status of Women

Forty-ninth Session

10^th Meeting (PM)

FULL IMPLEMENTATION OF 1995 BEIJING ACTION PLAN FOR WOMEN ESSENTIAL TO ACHIEVING

GLOBAL ANTI-POVERTY GOALS, WOMEN’S COMMISSION DECLARES

Consensus Adoption of Text Ends First Week

Of Session Aimed at Reviewing Progress towards Gender Equality

EXPERTON HUMAN RIGHTS IN DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF KOREA ENDS VISIT TO JAPAN

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GENEVA, 4 March (UN Information Service) -- The Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Vitit Muntarbhorn, issued the following statement in Tokyo on 3 March at the end of his visit to Japan which started on 24 February:

OSCE COULD PLAY KEY ROLE IN KOSOVO’S STANDARDS

 

REVIEW PROCESS, SECURITY COUNCIL TOLD

 

Chairman Briefs Council on Organization’s Expertise

In Minority Issues, Policing, Institution-Building, Conflict Resolution

BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF UNITED NATIONS VOLUNTARY FUND

 

FOR INDIGENOUS POPULATIONS CONCLUDES 18th SESSION

 

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Commission on Sustainable Development

Preparatory Meeting

10^th & 11^th Meetings (AM & PM)

Round-Up

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT PREPARATORY MEETING CONCLUDES WEEK-LONG SESSION;

WILL FORWARD POLICY OPTIONS ON WATER, SANITATION, HOUSING TO COMMISSION

Proposed Measures Will Be

Focus of Commission Meeting in April