Meetings Coverage and Press Releases

Press Release

SG/SM/9304

SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES AGREEMENT ON PARTICIPATION IN MYANMAR NATIONAL CONVENTION

14/05/2004
Press Release
SG/SM/9304


SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES AGREEMENT ON PARTICIPATION IN MYANMAR NATIONAL CONVENTION


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


The Secretary-General is disappointed to learn that an agreement has not been reached for the participation of the National League for Democracy (NLD) and some other ethnic nationality parties in the National Convention due to begin on 17 May.

SC/8094-AFR/929-HR/4756

PRESS STATEMENT ON CÔTE D‘IVOIRE BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT

14/05/2004
Press Release
SC/8094
AFR/929
HR/4756


PRESS STATEMENT ON CÔTE D‘IVOIRE BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT


Following is today’s press statement on Côte d’Ivoire by Security Council President Munir Akram (Pakistan):

AFR/927-IHA/905

BURUNDI: NUMBER OF INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS IN CAMPS HALVED

14/05/2004
Press Release
AFR/927
IHA/905


BURUNDI:  NUMBER OF INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS IN CAMPS HALVED


NEW YORK, 14 May (OCHA) –- There are as half as many people in camps for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Burundi as there were two years ago, according to a new survey led by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).  The results of the survey show that the number of the displaced dropped from 281,000 in 2002 to some 140,000 today.

UNEP/224

WATER, SANITATION, HYGIENE CAMPAIGN LAUNCHED TODAY IN CAIRNS, AUSTRALIA

14/05/2004
Press Release
UNEP/224


water, sanitation, hygiene campaign launched today in cairns, australia


CAIRNS, 14 May (UNEP) -- Two issues of major international concern to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC) will be tackled together following the launch of a new campaign in Cairns, Australia today.