TSUNAMI:  LOSSES IN FISHERIES, AQUACULTURE CLIMB

TO $520 MILLION, RECOVERY EFFORTS UNDER WAY

 

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Security Council

5126^th Meeting (Night)

Security Council

5124^th Meeting (PM)

REGIONAL CONFERENCE ON AVIAN FLU TO BE HELD IN VIET NAM

 

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ROME, 16 February (FAO) -- The international community needs to step up the battle against bird flu in affected Asian countries in order to avoid a potential global human influenza pandemic, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Animal Health Organisation (OIE).

Commission for Social Development

Forty-third Session

12^th Meeting (AM)

Social development commission hears introduction

 

of un research institute’s 2003-2004 report

 

Security Council

5123^rd Meeting (AM)

IN BRIEFING TO SECURITY COUNCIL, UNDER-SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS

ELECTIONS MARK SIGNIFICANT STEP TOWARDS DEMOCRACY IN IRAQ

 

Security Council

5125^th Meeting (PM)

SECRETARY-GENERAL, HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS CALL FOR URGENT ACTION

BY SECURITY COUNCIL TO HALT VIOLENCE IN SUDAN

 

INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY MUST IMMEDIATELY FIND WAY TO HALT KILLING

IN DARFUR, SUDAN, SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS SECURITY COUNCIL

 

Following is the text of today’s statement to the Security Council by Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

I am very pleased that the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Louise Arbour, is with us today, to present the report of the International Commission of Inquiry on Darfur.

IN MESSAGE TO KYOTO PROTOCOL CEREMONY, SECRETARY-GENERAL CALLS ON WORLD

COMMUNITY TO ‘BE BOLD’, QUICKLY TAKE NEXT STEPS AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE

Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s video message on the entry into force of the Kyoto Protocol, 16 February:

Today we celebrate the entry into force of the Kyoto Protocol.

CANADA TO HOST ANNUAL CLIMATE CHANGE CONFERENCE, 28 NOVEMBER – 9 DECEMBER 2005

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