SECRETARY-GENERAL CALLS FOR END TO BLOODSHED IN SRI LANKA

 

This statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

IN SIXTIETH ANNIVERSARY REMARKS, SECRETARY-GENERAL COMMENDS

PROGRESS BROUGHT ABOUT BY COMMISSION ON STATUS OF WOMEN

 

This is the text of remarks by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan today at a round table to mark the sixtieth anniversary if the Commission on the Status of Women:

Richness of diversity to be stressed, alternative to ‘siren song of hate’ needed,

 

says Secretary-General, marking international day of tolerance

 

IMPROVED TRANSPORT FACILITIES KEY TO ECONOMIC GROWTH, SECRETARY-GENERAL

TELLS UNITED NATIONS ASIA-PACIFIC MINISTERIAL CONFERENCE

 

SECRETARY-GENERAL APPOINTS LUIZ CARLOS DA COSTA OF BRAZIL AS PRINCIPAL DEPUTY

SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR UNITED NATIONS STABILIZATION MISSION IN HAITI

 

United Nations Military, Police Deployment Reaches All-time High in October

United Nations peacekeeping deployment reached a historic high at the end of October, with 80,976 military and police personnel and some 15,000 civilians serving in peace operations around the world.

Sixty-first General Assembly

Third Committee

44^th Meeting (PM)

THIRD COMMITTEE APPROVES TEXT CONDEMNING HOSTAGE-TAKING;

 

HEARS REPORT BY HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL PRESIDENT

 

Support Expressed for Convention on Enforced Disappearances;

Sixty-first General Assembly

Second Committee

27^th & 28^th Meetings (AM & PM)

SECOND COMMITTEE PASSES DRAFT RESOLUTION CALLING ON ISRAEL NOT TO EXPLOIT,

DAMAGE OR DEPLETE NATURAL RESOURCES IN OCCUPIED ARAB LANDS

 

Sixty-first General Assembly

Fifth Committee

20^th Meeting (AM)

Sixty-first General Assembly

Plenary

51^st Meeting (AM)