UN Information and Communication Technologies task force

to meet in Berlin, 19-20 November

 

“Promoting an enabling environment for digital development” will be the theme of the seventh meeting of the United Nations Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Task Force, to be held on 19 and 20 November in Berlin, hosted by the German Foreign Ministry.

Security Council

5079^th Meeting (AM)

Security Council extends Timor-Leste Mission for final six months,

unanimously adopting resolution 1573 (2004)

 

Following a Security Council debate yesterday on the planned withdrawal next year of the United Nations Mission of Support in East Timor (UNMISET), the Council today extended the Mission’s mandate for a final six months until 20 May 2005.

GUATEMALAMISSION SUCCESSFUL EXAMPLE OF UN PEACE-BUILDING, WITH LESSONS FOR OTHER

OPERATIONS, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN MESSAGE TO CLOSING CEREMONY

Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message to the closing ceremony of the United Nations Verification Mission in Guatemala (MINUGUA), delivered by Kieran Prendergast, Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, in Guatemala City, 15 November:

UN AID AGENCIES LAUNCH APPEAL FOR DROUGHT-STRICKEN BOLIVIA

 

NEW YORK, 16 November (Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs) -- United Nations humanitarian agencies are appealing for some $1.8 million for programmes to bring emergency aid to 180,000 people in Bolivia’s drought-stricken El Chaco region over the next seven months.

Fifty-Ninth General Assembly

Second Committee

33^rd & 34^th Meetings (AM & PM)

text approved by second committee recommends assistance to protect caribbean sea

 

from pollution by oil, chemicals, radioactive materials, nuclear waste

Delegates Conclude Discussion

On Eradication of Poverty, Take up Two Other Items

Fifty-ninth General Assembly

Third Committee

44^th Meeting (AM)

Fifty-ninth General Assembly

Plenary

54^th & 55^th Meeting (AM & PM)

Secretary-General, in International Day message, stresses NEED

to protect women, eliminate violence against them

 

Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, observed on 25 November:

Secretary-General accepts results of investigation into Oversight office;

 

report finds no violations, recommends no further action

 

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

Fifty-ninth General Assembly

Plenary

53^rd Meeting (AM)