NEW HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL MUST BE GUIDED BY OBJECTIVITY, ELIMINATE POLITICIZATION,

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN MESSAGE TO GENEVA SESSION

 

Following is UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message to the second session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva, 18 September:

Note to Correspondents

SECRETARY-GENERAL KOFI ANNAN TO RING PEACE BELL AT HEADQUARTERS ON 21 SEPTEMBER

IN COMMEMORATION OF TWENTY-FIFTH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PEACE

Peace, Security Remain at Core of UN Work on International Day of Peace

Launch of United Nations Global

Counter-Terrorism Strategy

PM Meeting

Sixty-first General Assembly

Plenary

10^th & 11^th Meetings (AM & PM)

Sixty-first General Assembly

High-Level Meeting on Least Developed Countries

9^th Meeting (AM)

GLOBAL REVIEW OF 2001 BRUSSELS PROGRAMME OF ACTION CONCLUDES AT HEADQUARTERS;

DECLARES RENEWED COMMITMENT TO WORLD’S 50 POOREST COUNTRIES

 

Brazil Energy Plans on Right Track Due to New Technologies,

 

Policies, United NationsReport says

NEW YORK, 19 September -- Innovative energy technologies and policies have placed Brazil in a good position to realize many of its sustainable development goals, a new United Nations report found.

BRAZIL , CHILE, FRANCE, NORWAY, UNITED KINGDOM LAUNCH NEW INTERNATIONAL DRUG

PURCHASE FACILITY TO IMPROVE ACCESS TO TREATMENT FOR HIV/AIDS, MALARIA, TB

Iraqi state in danger of breaking down amid civil war if alienation,

 

violence persist, Secretary-General warns at high-level meeting

Decrying ‘Heartbreaking’ Sectarian Strife, He Calls for Brave

Secretary-General welcomes court validation of congolese elections

The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

Secretary-General hails creativity, inclusiveness of Poland as he presents

President with franklin delano roosevelt international disability award