INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL BOARD ANNUAL REPORT FOCUSES

ON NEED TO INTEGRATE DRUG DEMAND, SUPPLY STRATEGIES

 

(Reissued as received.)

VIENNA, 2 March (UN Information Service) -- “The integration of supply and demand reduction strategies:  moving beyond a balanced approach” is the focus of the first chapter of the Annual Report of the Vienna-based International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), released here today.

SECURITY COUNCIL CONDEMNS MURDER OF NINE UN PEACEKEEPERS

 

IN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO

 

In Presidential Statement, Council Calls on Government to Bring Attackers

To Justice; Welcomes UN Mission’s ‘Continued Robust Action’ in Pursuit of Its Mandate

IN MESSAGE FOR INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY, SECRETARY-GENERAL CITES NEED FOR TARGETED

ACTION TO CHANGE HISTORICAL LEGACY PUTTING WOMEN AT DISADVANTAGE

Following is the message by Secretary-General Kofi Annan for International Women’s Day, observed on 8 March:

SECRETARY-GENERAL CALLS FOR REINING IN OF MILITIAS IN CÔTE D’IVOIRE

 

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

Commission on the Status of Women

Forty-Ninth Session

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

Women’s efforts to take rightful place in societies after tragedy of war

 

highlighted, as women’s commission concludes high-level debate

Hears from 48 More Speakers in Review

Of Progress 10 years after Beijing Women’s Conference

Commission on Sustainable Development

Preparatory Meeting

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

Sustainable development preparatory meeting focuses on ways

 

to improve lives of slum dwellers, urban poor

 

UN SENDS EMERGENCY TEAM TO OCEANIA

 

NEW YORK, 2 March (OCHA) -- The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) is sending two emergency teams, one to the Cook Islands and one to Tokelau, to help assess the situation after Tropical Cyclone Percy.

EDUCATION, GENDER EQUALITY TOGETHER MUST BE GIVEN PRIORITY, SECRETARY-GENERAL

SAYS IN VIDEO MESSAGE TO CONFERENCE ON GENDER PARITY

 

Following is the text of the video message by Secretary-General Kofi Annan for the Conference on Gender Parity in Education, Washington, D.C., 2 March:

Dear friends,

FATE OF TERRORIST ATTACK SURVIVORS TOO OFTEN NEGLECTED, SECRETARY-GENERAL

SAYS IN MESSAGE TO BOOK LAUNCH MEETING

Following is the message by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the meeting to launch the book “The Trauma of Terrorism”, delivered today by Danilo Türk, Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs:

BASEL CONVENTION ON HAZARDOUS WASTES, UN REGIONAL SEAS PROGRAMME

 

TO FIGHT COASTAL POLLUTION TOGETHER

 

(Reissued as received.)