Ad Hoc Committee for Voluntary

Contributions to UNRWA

AM Meeting

EIGHTEEN DONORS PLEDGE NEARLY $90 MILLION FOR UN PALESTINE REFUGEE AGENCY

Eighteen donor countries pledged approximately $90 million for the 2005 budget of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), during this morning’s meeting of the General Assembly’s Ad Hoc Committee for Voluntary Contributions.

Fifty-ninth General Assembly

Plenary

67^th Meeting (AM)

UN BRINGS AID TO STORM-STRUCK PHILIPPINES

 

NEW YORK, 6 December (UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs) -- In the aftermath of a series of storms that pounded the Philippines last week, UN agencies are working together to respond to needs created by the disaster.

SECRETARY-GENERAL NOTES UN’S ‘ENDURING SYSTEM-WIDE COMMITMENT TO FAMILIES’

 

AS GENERAL ASSEMBLY COMMEMORATES tenth ANNIVERSARY OF INTERNATIONAL YEAR

 

Following are Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s remarks to the General Assembly on the Tenth Anniversary of the International Year of the Family in New York, 6 December:

SECURITY COUNCIL COMMITTEE APPROVES CORRECTION OF IDENTIFYING INFORMATION

OF FIFTY-THREE INDIVIDUALS, TEN ENTITES ON CONSOLIDATED LIST

IN ADDRESS TO SUMMIT ON MINE-FREE WORLD, SECRETARY-GENERAL PLEDGES

SUPPORT IN IMPLEMENTING STRATEGY FOR NEXT FIVE YEARS

He Also Underlines Need to Keep Mine Victims’ Needs Constantly in Mind

Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s address via satellite link-up to the Nairobi Summit on a Mine-Free World today, 3 December 2004:

Fifty-ninth General Assembly

Plenary

66^th Meeting (AM)

GENERAL ASSEMBLY ADOPTS 55 TEXTS RECOMMENDED BY FIRST COMMITTEE

ON A WIDE RANGE OF DISARMAMENT, SECURITY MATTERS

Also Approves $21.8 Million for Sudan Advance Team

SECRETARY-GENERAL PROFOUNDLY SADDENED BY LOSS OF LIFE, DESTRUCTION

 

WROUGHT BY POWERFUL STORMS IN PHILIPPINES

 

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

NAIROBISUMMIT ENDS WITH POWERFUL ACTION PLAN: INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY

 

RENEWS COMMITMENT TO WORLD FREE OF ANTI-PERSONNEL MINES

 

(Received from a UN Information Officer.)

NAIROBI, 3 December -- The landmark Nairobi Summit on a Mine-Free World has closed with the international community recommitted to ending the suffering caused by anti-personnel mines.

Fifty-ninth General Assembly

Second Committee

37^th Meeting (PM)

second committee approves Text calling for timely international response

to joint 2005 appeal for emergency assistance for ethiopia

 

Draft Resolution on Humanitarian Aid, Six Others Approved Without Vote