‘IT IS ABSOLUTELY VITAL THAT THE FIGHTING NOW STOP’, SECRETARY-GENERAL

TELLS SECURITY COUNCIL MEETING ON LEBANON

Following is the text of the statement by the UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the Security Council on 11 August:

SECRETARY-GENERAL DEEPLY SADDENED BY LOSS OF LIFE IN TRAGIC FLOODING IN INDIA

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

SEABED COUNCIL EXAMINES LEGAL, TECHNICAL COMMISSION REPORT

 

SEABED COUNCIL BEGINS GENERAL DISCUSSIONS ON DRAFT REGULATIONS ON SULPHIDES, CRUSTS

Security Council

5511^th Meeting (Night)

SECURITY COUNCIL CALLS FOR END TO HOSTILITIES BETWEEN HIZBOLLAH, ISRAEL,

UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTING RESOLUTION 1701 (2006)

Permanent Ceasefire to Be Based on Creation

Humanitarian factsheet on lebanon

 

The following has been prepared by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA):

Humanitarian Impact

-- According to the Lebanese Higher Relief Council, 1,056 Lebanese have been killed and 3,600 wounded.

Biographical Note

NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF URUGUAY PRESENTS CREDENTIALS

(Based on information received from the Protocol and Liaison Service.)

Elbio O. Rosselli, the new Permanent Representative of Uruguay to the United Nations, today presented his credentials to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan.

Biographical Note

NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF SAINT LUCIA PRESENTS CREDENTIALS

 

(Based on information received from the Protocol and Liaison Service.)

Biographical Note

NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF REPUBLIC OF MONTENEGRO PRESENTS CREDENTIALS

(Based on information received from the Protocol and Liaison Service.)

Committee on Elimination of

Discrimination against Women

Chamber B, 743^rd & 744^th Meetings (AM & PM)

Committee to Eliminate Discrimination Against Women Recognizes China’s Advances

since last review, But urges greater Progress