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Home » Focus Areas » Promotion of participatory urban planning, management and governance » Statements and Speeches
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| World Habitat Day Bahrain |
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Kingdom of Bahrain
His Highness called upon the international community to mobilize resources and effectively contribute in planning to in create a physical livable environment enabling the urban poor to live in a safe and sustainable environment.
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| Nairobi Statement |
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Nairobi, Kenya
At the invitation of Klaus Toepfer, Under-Secretary General and Head of UNCHS (Habitat), and on the occasion of the first session of the Preparatory Committee for the Special Session of the General Assembly for an overall review and appraisal of the implementation of the Habitat Agenda (Istanbul +5), we, Mayors from all over the world and Presidents of International Associations of Local Authorities, have gathered in Nairobi on 7 May 2000 for the second meeting of the UN Advisory Committee of Local Authorities.
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| Statement By The Representative Of African Union Commision, On Behalf Of Adv. Bience Gawanas |
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Nairobi, Kenya
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| Capt (Mr.) John Zefania Chilligati, (MP.) MInister for Lands, Housing and Human Settlements Development, Government of the United Republic of Tanzania |
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Nanjing
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| Sir John R. Kaputin, Secretary-General of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States |
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Nanjing
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| The Secretary-General Message on International Youth Day |
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International Youth Day is an annual opportunity to recognize the world’s 1.2 billion
young people, to celebrate their achievements, and to push for their participation in all areas of
society.
This year’s commemoration – Be Seen, Be Heard: Youth Participation for Development
– focuses on the enormous contributions young women and men everywhere can and do make
towards national uplift.
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| Closing Statement by Mrs. Anna Kajumulo Tibaijuka, Executive Director, UN-HABITAT |
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Nairobi
As an enormous universal gathering of faiths put away their differences and assembled in Rome to lay Pope John Paul II to rest, 827 delegates from 92 Member States, including 48 Member States of the Governing Council, 39 representatives of Local Governments and their organisations and 92 representatives of NGOs as well as participants from the UN system, IGOs, professional associations and the private sector, assembled in Nairobi to provide guidance to one of the United Nations’ key programmes in the fight against global poverty.
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| Statement by Mr Jacques Chirac President of the French Republic |
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Paris
I would like to thank the Mayor of Paris for his kind words and his clearly successful and auspicious initiative. It is my pleasure to wish you in turn a very warm welcome to France and Paris. Paris, this city so close to my heart, a city always set upon being vibrant, welcoming, proud of its history and its heritage, forward-looking, and an integral part of the international fellowship.
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| Dennis Shea, the Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development |
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Barcelona
On behalf of the United States Government, I am honored to be here today to address this impressive gathering ofcommitledindividuals and institutions at the Second Sessionofthe World Urban Forum here in the beautiful city of Barcelona. I extend the best wishes of Secretary Alphonso Jackson of the u.s. I Department of Housing and Urban Deyelopment for a successful and enriching exchange of ideas and experiences.
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| Shaikh Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Bahrain |
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Nanjing
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| Director General, Soren Haggroth |
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Barcelona
I am very honoured to have been invited to this Second World Urban Forum and say a few words at this opening session. Together with my South-African colleague at that time Mrs. Sankie I chaired the First World Urban Forum in Nairobi in May 2002. The idea was to find a more informal way to focus on the Urban challanges. The key word was dialogue. Some 1200 people met in Nairobi, now 6000 people have registered for the Second Urban Forum. It is an impressive number and it shows that the problems and possibilities of urbanisation is gaining an ever increasing attention on the global agenda. I am fully convinced that also this Second World Forum will be as open, as informal, as democratic and as inclusive, as it was in Nairobi. I am glad to hear that a Third World Urban Forum is already being planned to take place in Vancouver'in 2006. In a way the Nairobi Forum was a historical in creating a new way of international co-operation, outside the UN protocal, but inside the main stream of the world challanges.
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| Le Secretaire General - Message Adresse Au Congres Fondateur De |
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Paris
C’est avec plaisir que j’adresse mes salutations les plus chaleureuses à ce Congrès fondateur de « Cités et gouvernements locaux unis ». Je tiens à louer les maires et les dirigeants locaux du monde entier pour cette initiative, qui peut contribuer beaucoup à renforcer sensiblement votre rôle au niveau international.
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| Statement by Dr. Anna Tibaijuka, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations, Executive Director UN-HABITAT at the first session of the Committee of the Whole 21 session of the Governing Council for UN-HABITAT |
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Nairobi
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| Local Government Opening Statement |
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Nairobi
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| Address by Monsieur Vincent T Dabilgou, Bukina Faso, at the 22nd session of the governing council of the United Nations Settlement Programme (UN-HABITAT). |
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| Statement by Hon. F. Mhashu, Minister of National Housing and local Amenities at the 22nd session of the governing council of the United Nations Settlement Programme (UN-HABITAT). |
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| Statement by Madam Gakou Salamata Fofona, Mali, at the 22nd session of the governing council of the United Nations Settlement Programme (UN-HABITAT). |
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| Message from UN Secretary-general Kofi Annan to the Second World Urban Forum |
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Barcelona
It is with great pleasure that I address this second World Urban Forum, a capstone event for the highly successful Universal Forum of Cultures being held this summer in Barcelona, the heart of Spanish Catalonia. For member states of the United Nations, there is no subject of greater consequence than the plurality of cultures. We are, above all, striving for peace and unity among nations. And, because it is culture that both defines and differentiates nations, every effort made to apprehend and understand our cultural differences is to be commended.
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Statement By The Representative Of African Union Commision, On Behalf Of Adv. Bience Gawanas
Statement_by__Mr_Jacques_Chirac_President_of_the_French_Republic-Mr. Jacques Chirac SPEECH.doc