FIRST-EVER LIVESTOCK CENSUS IN AFGHANISTAN

Restocking of Farm Animals Could Take

Many Years -- Herds Decimated by Drought and War

Security Council

4876^th Meeting (PM)

TIME RIPE FOR UNITED NATIONS TO TAKE OVER PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS

IN BURUNDI, SECURITY COUNCIL TOLD

Facilitator of Peace Process Briefs Members

On Gains, Remaining Challenges After Decade of Conflict

UN HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS OFFICE RESPONDS AFTER TYPHOON HITS MICRONESIA

meeting TO showcase importance of PreservING traditional knowledge

of indigenous, local communities

(Reissued as received.)

MONTREAL, 3 December -- On the morning of 8 December, at 9:30, a traditional Mohawk ceremony will signal the opening of a United Nations meeting focusing on the preservation, maintenance and promotion of the traditional knowledge of indigenous and local communities.

UN WORKSHOP TO BE HELD IN VIENNA ON USE AND APPLICATIONS

OF GLOBAL NAVIGATION SATELLITE SYSTEMS, 8-12 DECEMBER

SECRETARY-GENERAL PRAISES CELEBRITY ADVOCATES AS ‘NEW KIND OF STAR’, SHINING LIGHT

ON HARDSHIP, INJUSTICE, IN REMARKS AT UNICEF GALA

Following are Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s remarks at the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Goodwill Gala in Beverly Hills on 3 December:

Thank you very much, Carol [Bellamy].

Fifty-eighth General Assembly

Fifth Committee

25^th Meeting (AM)

Ad Hoc Committee for Voluntary

Contributions to UNRWA

AM Meeting

NINETEEN DONOR COUNTRIES PLEDGE $72 MILLION FOR ACTIVITIES OF UNRWA IN 2004

Nineteen donor countries pledged $72 million for the 2004 budget of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) at this morning’s meeting of the General Assembly’s Ad Hoc Committee for Voluntary Contributions.

SECRETARY-GENERAL, OBSERVING HUMAN RIGHTS DAY, STRESSES

THAT DEFENDING RIGHTS IS RESPONSIBILITY OF ALL

Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message on Human Rights Day, 10 December:

UNITED NATIONS FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION CALLS

FOR INTENSIFIED ACTION TO COMBAT ILLEGAL FISHING

Agency Gears to Do More as It Reports

Deepening of Problem to Governing Conference