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More information on the UNDP Tsunami Press Briefing  - 23rd May 2005 - Palais des NAtions - Geneva - Switzerland
UN Press Briefings
April 2005 Press Releases
Tsunami Relief Effort Must Be Done right, Used as Model for Future, Says Special Envoy At Headquaters Conference
Date: 25.04.2005 // Source: UN News
Former United States President Clinton, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan Call for Renewed Commitment to Tsunami Region
Date: 13.04.2005 // Source: UN News
Meeting in Mauritius for Tsunami Early Warning System in Indian Ocean
Date: 12.04.2005 // Source: UN News
March 2005 Press Releases
Press Briefing on Indonesian Earthquake by UN Emergency Coordinator
Date: 28.03.2005 // Source: UN News
Press Release: Secretary-General Appoints Erskine Bowles as Deputy Special Envoy for Tsunami Recovery
Date: 16.03.2005 // Source: UN News
Press Release: Governements call for responsible post-tsunami reconstruction of fisheries, pledge to combat illegal fishing
Date: 14.03.2005 // Source: UN News
Press Release: Paris meeting commits to development of Indian Ocean Tsunami Early-Warning System
Date: 11.03.2005 // Source: UN News
Press Release: Meeting in Paris to plan Tsunami Early-Warning System, 3-8 March
Date: 01.03.2005 // Source: UN News
February 2005 Press Releases
Press Release: Rebuild differently after tsunami, UNEP advises in new report
Date: 22.02.2005 // Source: UN News
Press Release: December Tsunami Provokes High Jump in Disaster Death Figures
Date:18.02.2005 // Source: UN News
January 2005 Press Releases
Press briefing for Member States on tsunami disaster
Date: 28.01.2005 // Source: UN News
Press briefing on tsunami disaster on Tuesday, 26 January
Date: 26.01.2005 // Source: UN News
Press briefing on tsunami disaster on Tuesday, 18 January
Date: 18.01.2005 // Source: UN News
Press briefing on tsunami disaster on Friday, 13 January
Date: 13.01.2005 // Source: UN News
Press briefing on tsunami disaster on Thursday, 12 January
Date: 12.01.2005 // Source: UN News
Press briefing on tsunami disaster on Wednesday, 11 January
Date: 11.01.2005 // Source: UN News
Press briefing on tsunami disaster on Tuesday, 10 January
Date: 10.01.2005 // Source: UN News
Press briefing on tsunami disaster on Saturday, 7 January
Date: 07.01.2005 // Source: UN News
Press briefing on tsunami disaster on Friday, 6 January
Date: 06.01.2005 // Source: UN News
Press briefing on tsunami disaster on Thursday, 5 January
Date: 05.01.2005 // Source: UN News
Press briefing on tsunami disaster on Tuesday, 4 January
Date: 04.01.2005 // Source: UN News
Press briefing on tsunami disaster on Monday, 3 January
Date: 03.01.2005 // Source: UN News
UN News
MAY 2005 Articles
UNICEF supplies 200 new temporary school buildings to Aceh
Date: 27.05.2005 // Source: UN News
UN special envoy for tsunami visits affected areas in India
Date: 27.05.2005 // Source: UN News
New UN website to track pledges for tsunami relief
Date: 24.05.2005 // Source: UN News
In wake of tsunami, UN conference examines media relations and tourism
Date: 20.05.2005 // Source: UN News
First UN information technology centre approved for Asia-Pacific region
Date: 18.05.2005 // Source: UN News
UN envoy Clinton meets with UK relief agencies on ways to boost aid for tsunami recovery
Date: 17.05.2005 // Source: UN News
UN meeting focuses on collective action to tackle problems in Asia-Pacific region
Date: 16.05.2005 // Source: UN News
Poverty reduction, ageing and tsunami recovery focus of UN Asia-Pacific meeting
Date: 12.05.2005 // Source: UN News
Impunity for individual anti-religious acts can lead to broad intolerance in Sri Lanka – UN expert
Date: 12.05.2005 // Source: UN News
UN conference on tsunami response calls for more health-oriented disaster preparedness
Date: 06.05.2005 // Source: UN News
Long-term housing needs in disaster-affected areas of Indonesia to get UN help
Date: 05.05.2005 // Source: UN News
Lack of information slows identification process of tsunami victims – UN conference
Date: 04.05.2005 // Source: UN News
Health aspect of tsunami disaster focus of UN conference
Date: 03.05.2005 // Source: UN News
APRIL 2005 Articles
UN reform, regional security and HIV/AIDS top subjects of Annan's talks in India
Date: 27.04.2005 // Source: UN News
Secretary-General meets with UN staff in India
Date: 26.04.2005 // Source: UN News
UN humanitarian officials call on international community to learn from tsunami
Date: 25.04.2005 // Source: UN News
Tsunami early warning system for Indian Ocean crucial after latest quakes
Date: 18.04.2005 // Source: UN News
Leading sports organizations join UN response to Indian Ocean tsunami
Date: 14.04.2005 // Source: UN News
UN tsunami envoy Bill Clinton to ensure pledges are paid up, money wisely spent
Date: 14.04.2005 // Source: UN News
UN tsunami appeal well funded but world's other emergencies face huge shortfall
Date: 06.04.2005 // Source: UN News
100 days after tsunami, UN back in 'emergency mode' after latest Indian Ocean quake
Date: 04.04.2005 // Source: UN News
MARCH 2005 Articles
UN steps up relief operations to quake-ravaged Indonesian islands
Date: 30.03.2005 // Source: UN News
UN agencies swing into action with relief missions after Indonesian quake
Date: 29.03.2005 // Source: UN News
UN on alert after new Indian Ocean quake, calls for speeding up early warning
Date: 28.03.2005 // Source: UN News
UN refugee agency ends emergency tsunami relief operations in Indonesia
Date: 24.03.2005 // Source: UN News
UN tsunami envoy brings words of encouragement to humanitarian workers
Date: 23.03.2005 // Source: UN News
Britain joins UN tourism agency in ‘historic turning point’ for cooperation
Date: 18.03.2005 // Source: UN News
Aide to UN envoy for tsunami relief leaves today for devastated region
Date: 16.03.2005 // Source: UN News
UN meeting pledges international cooperation to curb forest fires
Date: 15.03.2005 // Source: UN News
UN announces pioneering auditing agreement to monitor tsunami relief fund
Date: 14.03.2005 // Source: UN News
Reconstruction in tsunami-hit counties must avoid over-fishing – UN meeting
Date: 14.03.2005 // Source: UN News
Confidence in rapid tourism recovery in tsunami-hit region ‘rather high’ – UN
Date: 10.03.2005 // Source: UN News
UN agency provides over $1 million to media projects in developing countries
Date: 10.03.2005 // Source: UN News
UN moves ahead with interim tsunami early-warning system for Indian Ocean
Date: 09.03.2005 // Source: UN News
FEBRUARY 2005 Articles
Two months after tsunami only some UN agencies have received full funding
Source: UN News - Date: 25.02.2005
Mother and child health services in Thai tsunami zone expanded by UN agency
Source: UN News - Date: 24.02.2005
Tsunami must be preventive wake-up call, like Titanic a century ago – UN agency
Source: UN News - Date: 23.02.2005
Rebuild differently after tsunami, UNEP advises in new report
Source: UN News - Date: 22.02.2005
December Tsunami provokes high jump in disaster death figures
Source: UN News - Date: 18.02.2005
Tsunami: A technical seminar in Tokyo before Paris
Source: UN News - Date: 18.02.2005
Tsunami: Losses in fisheries, aquaculture climb to $520 million recovery efforts, under way
Source: UN News - Date: 17.02.2005
Donors commit some $20.5 million to UN FAO in response to tsunami appeal
Source: UN News - Date: 16.02.2005
UN boosts logistical ability to deliver food in tsunami-ravaged Indonesia
Source: UN News - Date: 07.02.2005
UN agency helps tsunami survivors who won't relocated from ravages village
Source: UN News - Date: 04.02.2005
Former US President Clinton accepts role of UN envoy for tsunami relief effort
Source: UN News - Date: 01.02.2005
JANUARY 2005 Articles
UN plans interim tsunami warning system that could be running almost at once
Source: UN News - Date: 31.01.2005
Indonesia welcomes more permanent UN presence in Aceh for tsunami relief
Source: UN News - Date: 31.01.2005
Build up logistics, cooperation with private sector before next tsunami strikes – UN
Source: UN News - Date: 28.01.2005
Press briefing on tsunami disaster by Jan Egeland, USG for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator
Source: UN News - Date: 28.01.2005
Recent humanitarian appeals for Africa receive much less than expected, Security Council told
Source: UN News - Date: 28.01.2005
UN seeks $67 million for increased risk of malaria, dengue fever after tsunami
Source: UN News - Date: 27.01.2005
One month into tsunami relief effort, UN faces even bigger rehabilitation task
Source: UN News - Date: 26.01.2005
Beyond huge tsunami death toll, Indonesia faces massive loss of livelihoods – UN
Source: UN News - Date: 26.01.2005
In week 5 of tsunami disaster, UN help ranges from topography to AIDS
Source: UN News - Date: 25.01.2005
General Assembly adopts resolution emphasizing need to maintain focus on tsunami-hit region beyond emergency relief stage
Source: UN GA - Date: 19.01.2005
Tsunami devastation in Indonesia 'truly staggering', UN teams find
Source: UN News - Date: 19.01.2005
Secretary-General, addressing General Assembly meeting on tsunami disaster, underlines need to focus on longer-term recovery, reconstruction
Source: UN GA - Date: 18.01.2005
Tsunami confirmed increasing toll of deaths from natural disasters, Secretary-General says in message to Kobe world conference
Source: UN SG - Date: 18.01.2005
UN environment chief calls for Indian Ocean tsunami early-warning system
Source: UN News - Date: 17.01.2005
Nearly 3 weeks after tsunami, relief effort going 'reasonably well' - UN officials
Source: UN News - Date: 14.01.2005
Tsunami's 'second wave of death' - disease - can now be largely avoided, UN says
Source: UN News - Date: 13.01.2005
Time is of the essence as UN rushes in tsunami aid, both palliative and preventive
Source: UN News - Date: 12.01.2005
UN hails tsunami appeal response, seeks clarification on Indonesian restrictions
Source: UN News - Date: 12.01.2005
Tsunami donor session opens with UN call to pay up and not forget other crises
Source: UN News - Date: 11.01.2005
UN agencies zero in on specific tsunami relief from mental health to blankets
Source: UN News - Date: 11.01.2005
As tsunami relief effort moves into third week, UN operation gathers momentum
Source: UN News - Date: 10.01.2005
Annan tours worst destruction he has ever seen at tsunami’s ground zero
Source: UN News - Date: 07.01.2005
Annan arrives in Indonesia to launch UN flash appeal for tsunami victims
Source: UN News - Date: 06.01.2005
Annan arrives in Indonesia to launch UN flash appeal for tsunami victims
Source: UN News - Date: 05.01.2005
As tsunami aid nears $4 billion, UN warns 150,000 could die without urgent care
Source: UN News - Date: 05.01.2005
Tsunami aid makes extraordinary progress but faces extraordinary problems - UN
Source: UN News - Date: 04.01.2005
UN emergency coordinator rebuffs critics who say tsunami relief was too slow
Source: UN News - Date: 04.01.2005
UN officials tour countries hit by Tsunami disaster
Source: UN News - Date: 03.01.2005
Annan will visit Indonesia to spearhead donor drive for tsunami aid effort
Source: UN News - Date: 02.01.2005
UN reports over $2 billion in pledges for the tsunami relief effort
Source: UN News - Date: 01.01.2005
DECEMBER 2004 Articles
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