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Press Release


ENV/DEV/728
09/05/2003
Press Release
ENV/DEV/728


Commission on Sustainable Development

Eleventh Session

9th Meeting (AM)


SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION SETS LONG-TERM

WORK PROGRAMME, AS ELEVENTH SESSION CONCLUDES


Establishes Two-Year Implementation Cycles Aimed at Specific Clusters

of Issues; Also Decides on 2004 Preparatory Meeting for Small Island States Review

POP/864
09/05/2003
Press Release
POP/864


UN POPULATION FUND CALLS ON WORLD LEADERS TO ENSURE SAFE MOTHERHOOD

FOR ALL WOMEN, URGES UNITED STATES TO RESUME FUNDING FOR AGENCY


NEW YORK, 9 May (UNFPA) -– On the eve of Mother’s Day, the Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), Thoraya Obaid, today called on world leaders to ensure safe motherhood for all women.

SC/7755-AFR/616
09/05/2003
Press Release
SC/7755
AFR/616


PRESS STATEMENT ON DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT


Following is today’s statement to the press on the Democratic Republic of the Congo by Security Council President Munir Akram (Pakistan):


The Security Council was briefed by Under-Secretary-General Jean-Marie Guehenno on the deteriorating situation in Bunia in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.