UN NOT NEGOTIATING ‘GLOBAL GUN BAN’, NOR IS THERE INTENTION TO DENY LAW-ABIDING

CITIZENS RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS, SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS SMALL ARMS CONFERENCE

States that One Quarter of Estimated

$4 Billion Annual Global Gun Trade Believed to Be Illicit

‘UNCONTROLLED SPREAD OF ILLICIT SMALL ARMS IS RESPONSIBLE FOR UNTOLD HUMAN SUFFERING’,

SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS ON ACCEPTING ‘MILLION FACES CAMPAIGN’ PETITION

Following is the text of remarks by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan upon accepting the Million Faces Campaign Petition, in New York today:

IN MESSAGE TO jUNe DAY IN WESTPORT, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS UN AGENDA OF RENEWAL

DEPENDS ON SUPPORT OF CONCERNED INDIVIDUALS, GROUPS, AS WELL AS GOVERNMENTS

Review Conference

on Illicit Small Arms Trade

1^st & 2^nd Meetings (AM & PM)

Meeting of States Parties to Women’s

Anti-Discrimination Convention

1^st Meeting (AM)

States parties to Women’s Anti-Discrimination Convention Elects 12 Experts

to Serve on Monitoring Committee

 

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan arrived in Geneva, Switzerland, from Copenhagen, Denmark, in the evening of Sunday, 18 June.

SECRETARY-GENERAL SADDENED AT DEATH OF PROFESSOR LOUIS SOHN, IMPORTANT FIGURE

IN HISTORY OF UNITED NATIONS, INTERNATIONAL LAW

 

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

OPENING FIRST SESSION OF PEACEBUILDING COMMISSION, SECRETARY-GENERAL STRESSES

IMPORTANCE OF NATIONAL OWNERSHIP, BUILDING EFFECTIVE PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS

TRANSCRIPT OF PRESS CONFERENCE BY SECRETARY-GENERAL KOFI ANNAN

AT PALAIS DES NATIONS, GENEVA, 22 JUNE 2006

 

Meeting of States Parties

to Law of Sea Convention

103^rd & 104^th Meetings (AM & PM)

States parties to law of sea convention conclude current meeting, Addressing issues

concerning continental shelf, international tribunal