Press Release ENV/DEV/713 OBV/319 |
Launch of the International
Year of Freshwater 2003
FRESHWATER ISSUES AT ‘HEART OF HUMANKIND’S HOPES FOR PEACE AND DEVELOPMENT’,
SAYS DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL AT EVENT TO LAUNCH INTERNATIONAL YEAR
Press Release ENV/DEV/713 OBV/319 |
Launch of the International
Year of Freshwater 2003
FRESHWATER ISSUES AT ‘HEART OF HUMANKIND’S HOPES FOR PEACE AND DEVELOPMENT’,
SAYS DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL AT EVENT TO LAUNCH INTERNATIONAL YEAR
Press Release SG/SM/8556 |
CONVENTION ON TRANSBOUNDARY MOVEMENTS OF HAZARDOUS WASTES IS CRUCIAL
TO QUEST FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL
Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message to the Sixth Conference of the Parties to the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal, delivered on his behalf by Klaus Töpfer, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme, Geneva, 12 December 2002:
Press Release SG/SM/8559 |
SECRETARY-GENERAL HAILS AMENDED PROTOCOL TO PROHIBITIONS ON USE OF MINES,
BOOBY-TRAPS IN MESSAGE TO HIGH CONTRACTING PARTIES
Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message delivered yesterday to the Fourth Annual Conference of the High Contracting Parties to the
Amended Protocol in Geneva:
Press Release SG/SM/8558 |
HIGH-LEVEL COORDINATOR INVITED TO VISIT IRAQ
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:
Press Release SC/7596 |
Security Council
4662nd Meeting (AM)
SECURITY COUNCIL, IN PRESIDENTIAL STATEMENT, WELCOMES AGREEMENT
BETWEEN CROATIA, YUGOSLAVIA CONCERNING PREVLAKA PENINSULA
Thanks UN Mission on Peninsula, Which Concludes 15 December,
For Helping Create Conditions Leading to Negotiated Settlement
Press Release SOC/NAR/849 |
SOC/NAR/849*
Press Release ENV/DEV/714 |
12 December 2002
Leading manufacturers and Basel Convention to cooperate on environmentally
sound management of end-of-life mobile phones
(Reissued as received.)
Press Release AFG/215 |
CAMPAIGN TO VACCINATE MILLIONS OF FARM ANIMALS BY YEAR’S END,
AS THREAT OF RABIES LOOMS IN AFGHANISTAN
Press Release DSG/SM/184 |
WATER ISSUES AMONG HIGHEST PRIORITIES OF UNITED NATIONS,
SAYS DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL
Following are the remarks by Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchetteon the launch of the International Year of Freshwater (2003), New York, 12 December 2002:
Press Release SG/SM/8560 |
SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES MEETING OF STATES PARTIES TO ENSURE CONVENTION
ON CERTAIN CONVENTIONAL WEAPONS REMAINS HEALTHY, EFFECTIVE
The following is the text of today’s message by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the Meeting of the States Parties to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, in Geneva: