Note to Correspondents

Note to Correspondents

2006 REHAM AL-FARRA MEMORIAL JOURNALISTS’ FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMME

TO BEGIN on 11 SEPTEMBER

 

Note to Correspondents

DPI/NGO Annual Conference

AM & PM Meetings

Secretary-General hails strong, developing partnership between UN/NGOs,

as three-day conference closes at Headquarters

 

Sixtieth General Assembly

Plenary

99^th Meeting (PM)

General Assembly adopts resolution on strategy to counter international terrorism

Also Approves Texts on Peacebuilding Fund,

Elimination of Sexual Abuse in Peacekeeping Operations, Revitalizing Assembly

AT DEDICATION CEREMONY OF BUDDHIST STUPA, DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL CALLS

FOR EMPHASIS ON ‘BASIC HUMANIST VALUES COMMON TO ALL MAJOR RELIGIONS’

Following is the text of remarks today by UN Deputy Secretary-General Mark Malloch Brown at the Dedication Ceremony of the Vesak Day World Peace Buddhist Stupa:

Preparatory Meeting for Midterm Review

of Implementation of Least Developed Countries

Programme of Action (AM)

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan flew from Tehran, Iran, to Doha, Qatar, on Sunday afternoon, 3 September.

Theme of World Habitat Day is ‘Cities, Magnets of Hope’, but 1 Billion People

Live in Slums, Secretary-General says

 

Following is the text of the message by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the occasion of World Habitat Day, 2 October:

Montreal Protocol on Ozone-Depleting Substances effective, but work still unfinished,

says Secretary-General in message for International Day

 

Following is the message by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer, 16 September: