PRESS STATEMENT ON GEORGIA BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT

Following is the text of today’s press statement by the President of the Security Council, César Mayoral:

Members of the Security Council today heard the briefing of the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Georgia, Ms. Heidi Tagliavini, who presented to the Council Members the Secretary General’s report on the activity of the United Nations Observer Mission in Georgia (UNOMIG).

DISARMAMEnT IS CRITICAL FOR CONFLICT PREVENTION, PEACE-BUILDING, REALIZING

MILLENNIUM GOALS, SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS CONFERENCE ON DISARMAMENT

Following is the message by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva, to be delivered on 27 January by Sergei Ordzhonikidze, Director-General,United Nations Office at Geneva:

WOMEN, MEN IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES ARE MARRYING LATER,

 

HAVING CHILDREN LATER, according to un report

 

UN Report Says Strong global growth in 2005 Depends

 

on how dollar, global imbalances unwind

 

NEW YORK, 25 January (UN Department of Public Information) -- Global imbalances, and the United States trade deficit, in particular, will not be corrected by a rapidly falling US dollar, contrary to many expectations, the United Nations warns today, in an otherwise upbeat assessment of the world economy at the beginning of 2005.

EXPERTS EMPHASIZE FORESTS’ CONTRIBUTION TO MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS

FAO Committed to Helping Realize Development Goals

(Reissued as received.)

ROME, 25 January (FAO) -- Forests contribute directly to reducing extreme poverty and hunger and ensuring environmental sustainability, two of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), a panel of forestry experts invited to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has concluded.

In remarks to group of 77, Secretary-General says year 2005 offers opportunity

 

for ‘Decisive Progress’ on Development, Security Agendas

Following is the text of remarks by Secretary-General Kofi Annan at the handover of the chairmanship of the Group of 77 Developing Countries today:

Committee on Elimination of

 Discrimination against Women

681^st & 682^nd Meetings (AM & PM)

‘We must face up to what happened in the camps’, Secretary-General says

 

at opening of Auschwitz exhibit

Following is the text of remarks by Secretary-General Kofi Annan at the opening of the exhibition “Auschwitz -- The Depth of the Abyss” to commemorate the liberation of the Nazi death camps, in New York on 24 January:

COMMITTEE NEGOTIATING TREATY ON RIGHTS OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES

OPENS FIFTH SESSION AT UN HEADQUARTERS

The General Assembly Committee drafting the first-ever convention on the rights and dignity of persons with disabilities resumed negotiations today, focusing on the issue of equality and non-discrimination.

Round-up

UN CONFERENCE ON DISASTER REDUCTION CONCLUDES; ADOPTS

PLAN OF ACTION FOR NEXT 10 YEARS

Participants Commit to Reducing Vulnerabilities to Natural Hazards

(Received from a UN Information Officer.)