2004 UN Consolidated Inter-Agency Appeals

AM Meeting

SECRETARY-GENERAL LAUNCHES ANNUAL HUMANITARIAN APPEAL AT HEADQUARTERS

CALLING FOR $3 BILLION TO AID 21 COUNTRIES

ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR EUROPE ENCOURAGES ORGANIZATIONS

AND GOVERNMENTS TO WORK TOGETHER FOR SECURE TRADE

GENEVA, 18 November (ECE) -- From 13 to 14 November 2003, the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) and the World Customs Organization (WCO) hosted a meeting on trade security and trade facilitation.

PRESS STATEMENT ON AFGHANISTAN BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT

Following is the text of the press statement on Afghanistan delivered on 17 November by Security CouncilPresident Ismael Abraão Gaspar Martins (Angola):

Members of the Security Council condemned unequivocally the murder on 16 November of Bettina Goislard, a staff member for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. 

WORLD IN WHICH MILLIONS LIVE IN DESPERATE CONDITIONS WILL NOT BE WORLD AT PEACE,

SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS AT LAUNCH OF 2004 HUMANITARIAN APPEAL

Following is the address delivered by Secretary-General Kofi Annan today at the launch of the 2004 Humanitarian Appeal:

Fifty-eighth General Assembly

Third Committee

49^th Meeting (PM)

THIRD COMMITTEE APPROVES DRAFT RESOLUTIONS ON WOMEN MIGRANT WORKERS,

HUMAN RIGHTS AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY, RURAL WOMEN

Draft Introduced on Human Rights, Mass Exoduses

SECRETARY-GENERAL CONDEMNS DEADLY ATTACK AGAINST REFUGEE WORKER

IN AFGHANISTAN, CALLS FOR GREATER SECURITY MEASURES

The following statement was issued by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan on 16 November:

AIDS EPIDEMIC ‘CONTINUES ITS LETHAL MARCH’, AS INTERNATIONAL ACTION STILL FAR

SHORT OF WHAT IS NEEDED, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL ON WORLD AIDS DAY

Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan's message on the occasion of World AIDS Day, observed 1 December:

UN TO HOLD MEETING OF EXPERTS AND KEY OFFICIALS TO DISCUSS

ISSUE OF TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS

Strengthening Regional Cooperation and Developing Agreements

To Enhance International Judicial and Police Cooperation among Key Issues for Discussion

(Reissued as received.)

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES REPATRIATION OF OVER 100 RWANDAN REBELS

FROM DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL STRESSES KEY ROLE OF INDUSTRIALIZATION IN AFRICA’S EFFORTS

TO ACHIEVE DEVELOPMENT GOALS, INTEGRATE INTO GLOBAL ECONOMY

Following is the message of Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Africa Industrialization Day, 20 November: