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| Speech by Minister of Construction, Peoples Republic of China, Mr Wang Guangtao |
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Nairobi, Kenya
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| The Secretary-general — Message On World Habitat Day |
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From the Secretary-General
The theme of World Habitat Day 2003 -- “Water and Sanitation for Cities” -- highlights the need to provide the urban poor with clean water and decent sanitation.
In a rapidly urbanizing world, where already half of the world’s population lives in cities and towns, at least 1 billion people suffer from the dangers and indignities associated with the lack of clean water and adequate sanitation.
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| Morroco-Discours De M. Daniel Biau |
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Casablanca
Nous célébrons aujourd’hui la Journée mondiale de l’habitat qui se tient tous les ans le premier lundi d’octobre ; nous célébrons aussi le lancement au Maroc des Campagnes nationales sur la bonne gouvernance urbaine et sur la sécurité foncière et immobilière, nous célébrons enfin l’ouverture de la semaine « Convergence Urbanisme Habitat ».
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| Remarks by Achim Steiner, UN Under-Secretary General and Executive Director, UN Environment Programme (UNEP) at the Opening of the UN-Habitat 22nd Governing Council |
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His Excellency Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka, Vice-President of the Republic of Kenya, H.E. Michael Werikhe, Acting President of the Governing Council and Minister of State for Housing of Uganda, H.E Soita Shitanda Minister of Housing, Republic of Kenya , Anna Tibaijuka, Executive Director UN-HABITAT, Inga Klevby, Deputy Executive Director UN-HABITAT, Distinguished delegates, guests, colleagues and friends, Thank you very much for inviting me to address the opening of the 22nd session of the UN-HABITAT Governing Council.
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| Message of Mr. Kim Hak-Su, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Secretary of UNESCAP |
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New Delhi
“Let me start by congratulating you, Your Excellency, and Mrs. Tibaijuka, Executive Director of UN-HABITAT, for the initiative to call this important Asia-Pacific Ministerial Conference on Housing and Human Settlements. As the regional arm of the United Nations in Asia and the Pacific, UNESCAP strongly supports this initiative, which complements the Asia-Pacific Urban Forums and Ministerial Conferences that UNESCAP has been organizing since 1993 on issues related to urban development and housing.
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| Anna Tibaijuka, Under Secretary-General, United Nations; Executive Director, UN-HABITAT |
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Nanjing
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| Opening Remarks by his Excellency Fahmi Al Jowder at the opening of the UN-HABITAT conference in Nairobi |
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Nairobi
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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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| Address to the Golden Spear 2005 Symposium on Civil-Military Cooperation in Disaster Management |
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Nairobi
Mrs. Tibaijuka has asked me to apologise on her behalf for not being able to attend in person today because of another international commitment in her schedule. She has therefore asked me, as her representative, to deliver her message to this distinguished gathering on behalf of the United Nations. She wants me to share with you some of our views and insights on Civil-Military Cooperation in Disaster Management , the theme of this year's Golden Spear symposium.
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| Speech by Sisulu Chair of the African Ministerial Conference on housing of the Republic of South Africa at the Plenary Sesion of the 21 Session of the governing council of UN-HABITAT |
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| The Secretary-General's message on the occasion of World Habitat Day |
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New York, USA
By the year 2050, some 6 billion people representing two-thirds of humanity will be living in towns and cities. Never before in history has the world witnessed such rapid urbanization. Neither has it witnessed such a swift rise in the absolute numbers of people migrating.
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| A NEW GLASNOST FOR OUR FUTURE, The Right to Water and Dignified Life, Mikhail Gorbachev, Chairman, Green Cross international |
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Barcelona
Exactly four years ago, in September 2000, the leaders of all the world's! countries declared that: "We will spare no effort to free our fellow men, women and children from the abject and dehumanising conditions of extreme poverty, to which more than a billio of them are currrently subjected" UN Millennium Declaration.
Nothing is more dehumanising than living without water and sanitation so why are more efforts not being made to address the world water crisis? In the last four years, over, 20 million children have died from preventable water-borne diseases, and hundreds of millions of people continue to live with the daily drudgery and squalor associated with the lack of water and sanitation. Yet, today, there is little to indicate that we will not face the same situation four years from now.
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| Executive Director’s message on World Habitat Day |
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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
The theme this year of World Habitat Day on 6 October spearheaded by the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro is water and sanitation. Never before has there been such clear international consensus that sustainable development starts with health and dignity. These fundamental conditions of human development cannot be met without sustained investment in safe water and basic sanitation.
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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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| Diane Finley, Minister, Human Resources and Social Development, Government of Canada; Chair, WUF 3 |
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Canada
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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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| Naokazu Takemoto, Secretary-General of the Japan Parliamentarians on HABITAT (Senior Vice-Minister of Finance), Japan |
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Canada
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Speech by Minister of Construction, Peoples Republic of China, Mr Wang Guangtao
Morroco-Discours De M. Daniel Biau
