Rapports

Ref: OCHA/GVA - 2000/0023 Mongolia - Snowstorms OCHA Situation Report No. 3 17 February 2000 The Government of Mongolia requests International Assistance to Herders beset by devastating Snowstorms Background 1. Winter struck Mongolia early last year with a series of unusually heavy blizzards occurring…

Rome, February 2000 HIGHLIGHTS FAO now estimates world cereal output in 1999 at 1 872 million tonnes, (including rice in milled terms), above average, and only slightly below the previous year's level. However, this would be below anticipated global cereal utilization…

Q (CNN): Mr. General Secretary, this was a major project for you - East Timor - and I believe you have said that you wouldn't have changed anything in the process despite the violence that ensued. Have you had…

MEDIA RELEASE - MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS ALEXANDER DOWNER AA 00 003 16 February 2000 Australia will provide $6 million for programs designed to address the current humanitarian crisis and the longer term root causes of food insecurity in North Korea. A…

INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES The World Bank recently called a meeting of more than twenty countries in Tokyo to discuss the reconstruction of East Timor. Oxfam sent a representative to East Timor in the leadup to the meeting to coordinate and consult…

MANILA, Feb 16 (Reuters) - One person drowned and more than 7,000 others fled their homes after floods caused by heavy rains swept low-lying areas of Davao city in the southern Philippines, relief officials said on Wednesday. The floods, which…

Stanley O. Roth, Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, U.S. Department of State Testimony before the House International Relations Committee, Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific Washington, DC, February 16, 2000 Mr. Chairman, last week I testified before you…

Breaking up large States into small ones is often a "wasteful and unimaginative way" of solving political difficulties, Secretary-General Kofi Annan told an audience in Indonesia Wednesday. "But those who oppose separatism have got to show that their solution is less…

Stressing that it was "absolutely essential" that the perpetrators of post-referendum violence in East Timor be brought to justice, Secretary-General Kofi Annan said today he supported the Indonesian government's recent steps in that direction. Following his meetings in Jakarta with President…

Dili, 16 February 2000 Secretary-General Kofi Annan is expected to arrive in East Timor on Thursday. He is to arrive at Dili airport around midday. At the airport, he will have a private meeting with SRSG Vieira de Mello and…