ECOSOC 2003 High-Level Segment
30 June - 2 July 2003

Speeches and Statements

24 March 2003 - ECOSOC Brainstorming Dialogue Sessions

Promoting an integrated approach to rural development in developing countries for poverty eradication and sustainable development -- The role of rural development in the achievement and implementation of internationally agreed development goals including those contained in the UN Millennium Declaration:

• Keynote address by Mr. Gordon Conway, President, Rockefeller Foundation

• Keynote address by Professor Alain de Janvry, University of California, Berkeley (Point presentation)
   
• Statement by Dr. Michael Appleby, Humane Society of the United States
   
• Statement by Ms. Judith Symonds, Future Harvest Foundation
   
• Statement by Mr. Jeffrey A. McNeely, World Conservation Union
   
• Statement by Mr. James McDonald, Bread for the World
   
• Statement by Dr. Pedro Sanchez, Columbia Earth Institute
   
• Statement Ms. Judith Bryson, AFRICARE
   
• Statement by Mr. Peter Gubbels, World Neighbours
   
• Statement by Ms. Kristin Penn, Land O'Lakes( Power point presentation)
   
• Statement Dr. Clive Lightfoot, International Farming Systems Association
   
• Statement by Sam Daley-Harris, Microcredit Summit
   
• Statement by Ms. Noeleen Heyzer, Executive Director of UNIFEM
   
• Statement by the World Tourism Organization
   

30 June 2003 - ECOSOC High-Level Segment

• Statement by Mr. Kofi Annan, Secretary-General of United Nations
   
• Statement by Mr. Horst Köhler, Managing Director of the IMF
   
• Statement by Mr. Rubens Ricupero, Secretary-General of the UNCTAD
   
• Statement by Mr. Francisco Thompson-Flores, Deputy Director-General of the WTO (trade)
   
• Statement by H.E. Mr. Gert Rosenthal, President of the ECOSOC
   
• Statement by Mr. James T. Morris, Executive Director of the WFP
   
• Statement by Ms. Anna Tibaijuka, Executive Director of UN-Habitat
   
• Statement by Mr. Carlos Magariños, Director-General of the UNIDO
   
• Statement of Thoraya Obaid, Executive Director of the UNPF
   
• Statement by Mr. Ibrahim Gambari, Under-Secretary-General and Special Adviser to the United Nations Secretary-General on Africa
   
• Statement by Mr. Anwarul K. Chowdhury, High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States