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)

Launch of International

Human Solidarity Day

SPECIAL FUND TO AID WORLD’S POOR IS PROPOSED AT UNITED NATIONS CEREMONY

TO MARK LAUNCHING OF INTERNATIONAL HUMAN SOLIDARITY DAY

Lech Wałęsa of Poland Suggests Chance for ‘Ordinary Citizens of World’