UNITED
NATIONS
GENERAL
ASSEMBLY
News and Highlights from the President
President
delivers a message for World Health Day on 7 April 2002
5 April 2002
In a message to mark World Health Day, General Assembly President Han Seung-soo says on this year’s theme, “Move for Health”, that,
“In order to promote physical activity, we need to change our environment and promote policies that encourage people to be active. Communities should give high priority to developing parks and open spaces and safe and active streets, which are highly conducive to a vibrant public life. Clean air and water are equally important to a healthy, active community and should be at the top of the public policy agenda.”
The full text of his statement is contained in press release GA/SM/280.
On Monday, the President will address the opening of the World Assembly on Ageing. In his statement he is expected to stress among other things that,
“The international development targets set forth in the Millennium Declaration will not be achievable without the mainstreaming of ageing and concerns of older persons into development frameworks and poverty eradication strategies. Older persons should be regarded as an asset, not a burden. This truth is well recognized in the folk wisdom of many countries. As the old proverb says, “There’s many a good tune played on an old fiddle.”
Also on Monday, the
Open-ended Informal Consultative Process on ocean affairs will begin a
session which will last until the 15th of April. The co-chairs are Ambassador
Tuiloma Neroni Slade of Samoa and Mr. Alan Simcock of the United Kingdom.
There is more information on the session in the provisional agenda, document
A/AC.259/L.3.