August 17, 2000
UN member countries have agreed to discuss four themes during the three-day UN Millennium Summit, which kicks off on Sept. 6 at the UN headquarters in New York, sources said Wednesday.
The main theme of the summit is the "Role of the United Nations in the 21st Century," but leaders of UN member countries decided to discuss specific themes in an attempt to further clarify the United Nations' future role, the sources said.
The four themes are: poverty and development, conflict prevention, environmental problems and strengthening the United Nation's role.
The Millennium Summit will be the first summit to be attended by the leaders of all UN member countries since October 1995, when the international organization held a special meeting to celebrate the 50th anniversary of its establishment.
During the summit, in conjunction with speeches delivered by leaders at the general assembly hall, four roundtable discussions will be held on the morning of Sept. 6, the morning and afternoon of Sept. 7 and the morning of Sept. 8, the sources said. The four themes will be presented separately at the four sessions, and each leader will attend one of the four sessions, the sources said, and a schedule is to be drafted to decide which leaders will attend which session.
As UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has drawn attention to the plight of about 1.2 billion people in the world who live on less than one dollar a day, the session on poverty and development will focus on concrete steps to fight poverty, the sources said. The conflict prevention session will discuss the establishment of a monitoring system to prevent warring parties involved in regional disputes from obtaining weapons and illegal funds, as well as how to increase the effectiveness of economic sanctions, the sources said.
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