Press Release

Security Council                                           

UNEP, major institutional Investors Join Forces To Launch

New ‘Responsible Investment Initiative’

(Reissued as received.)

LONDON/NAIROBI, 15 July (UNEP) -- The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) will work with major institutional investors to develop a set of globally recognized principles for responsible investment by September 2005.

IN BANGKOK, SECRETARY-GENERAL DISCUSSES MYANMAR SITUATION

WITH THAI PRIME MINISTER, FOREIGN MINISTER

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

Economic and Social Council

2004 Substantive Session

39^th & 40^th Meetings (AM & PM)

DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION, PROGRESS ON MILLENNIUM GOALS TOP AGENDA, AS ECONOMIC

AND SOCIAL COUNCIL TAKES STOCK OF MAJOR CONFERENCE OUTCOMES

Plight of Least Developed Countries, Sustainable

Development among Key Topics of Discussion in Day-long Session

Secretary-General Kofi Annan arrived in Bangkok, Thailand, on Friday, 9 July, where he would open the Fifteenth International AIDS Conference the following day.

PRESS STATEMENT ON ETHIOPIA-ERITREA BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT

Following is the press statement on Ethiopia and Eritrea delivered by Security Council President Mihnea Ioan Motoc (Romania):

Members of the Council heard a briefing on the situation between Ethiopia and Eritrea and the activities of the United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE).  They reiterated their full support for UNMEE’s work.

SUCCESSFUL INTERNATIONAL LEADERS SEE THEMSELVES AS ‘CITIZENS OF THE WORLD’,

SAYS DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL IN ADDRESS TO GOLDMAN SACHS LUNCHEON

Following is Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette’s address to the 2004 Goldman Sachs Global Leadership Institute’s luncheon in New York, 14 July:

UNRWA DELIVERS FOOD FOR 20,000 PEOPLE IN BEIT HANOUN, CONVOY COMES UNDER FIRE

(Reissued as received.)

GAZA, 14 July (UNRWA) -- The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) today delivered 370 tons of food aid to the population of Beit Hanoun in the north of the Gaza Strip.  The aid will provide food for approximately 20,000 persons, two thirds of the population of the besieged town.

SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES PEACEFUL ATTITUDE DURING BOLIVIA’S UPCOMING REFERENDUM

Following is the text of a statement attributable to the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

The Secretary-General is following with great interest the upcoming referendum on 18 July 2004 concerning the abrogation of the national hydrocarbons law, as well as the key principles for the management of the gas sector in the future.

Africa must accelerate links between national economies; aim for economic union,

states new report by United NationsEconomic Commission for Africa