Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annans inaugural address to Urban 21: Global Conference on the Urban Future, which he delivered yesterday in Berlin:
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Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annans statement today at the official opening of the Headquarters Building of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea in Hamburg, Germany:
Final Document Calls for Halving Extreme Poverty and Achieving Free and Universal Primary Education by 2015; Reduction of Trade Barriers
General Assembly Special Session Approaches Conclusion
Foreign ministers and delegates this afternoon continued urging the international community to provide support and resources to the world's developing countries so they did not fall farther behind in the new world economy.
Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annans remarks yesterday at Expo 2000 in Hanover, Germany:
NEW YORK, 3 July (UNFPA) - Reproductive health and rights are lifetime concerns that are essential to womens empowerment and gender equality. A new publication from the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) explains why.
GENEVA, 1 July (UN Information Service) -- Agreement was reached on a wide array of initiatives to reduce poverty and spur job growth in the global economy at the United Nations General Assembly special session on social development that ended today in Geneva.
