‘European Union Enlargement Expands Frontiers of Stability, Rule of Law’,

Un Drugs and Crime Chief Says

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Committee on Relations                                     

Fifty-eighth General Assembly                              

Security Council                                           

Background Release                                         

SUDAN high-level humanitarian MISSION continues

NEW YORK, 29 April (UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs) –- The high-level humanitarian mission led by World Food Programme Executive Director James Morris continued today, breaking up into two teams in order to cover more of Darfur.

Nature-Rich Farmland Areas Need Greater Support,

 

un, european environment agencies warn

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COPENHAGEN/DUBLIN, 29 April (UNEP) -- The European Union will not reach the goal of halting species loss by 2010 if it does not do more to prevent the decline of its most nature-rich areas of farmland, the European Environment Agency (EEA) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) warned today.

Commission on Sustainable Development                      

Twelfth Session                                            

PRESS STATEMENT ON Cyprus BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT

Following is the press statement on Cyprus, delivered today by Security Council President Gunter Pleuger (Germany):

The Security Council takes note of the outcome of the referenda held in Cyprus on 24 April 2004 on the Comprehensive Settlement on the Cyprus problem.  The Council respects the outcome of both referenda.

‘the more unified you are, the stronger you are’, says Secretary-General

in remarks on developing country group’s 40^th anniversary

Following are Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s remarks at a luncheon on the occasion of the fortieth anniversary of the “Group of 77” developing countries and China, in New York, 29 April:

Thank you, Ambassador Al Nasser, for bringing us together today.