login
login

Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7969

21 May 2001
Contents Publication in full By article 14 / 40
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/un/development
Poor results for conference on LDC

Brussels, 21/05/2001 (Agence Europe) - At first glance, the Third United Nations Conference on Least Developed Countries (LDC III), hosted in Brussels by the EU, had mitigated results. The action plan, adopted on Sunday following a week of works, expressed the desire of the international Community to reduce by half the number of people living in extreme poverty and suffering from hunger, by 2015, and to promote sustainable development in the 49 poorest countries of the world, but it contains...

Contents

A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
THE DAY IN POLITICS
GENERAL NEWS
ECONOMIC INTERPENETRATION
WEEKLY SUPPLEMENT