LEADERSHIP NEEDED TO IMPLEMENT SUMMIT DECISIONS, SECRETARY-GENERAL

TELLS GENERAL ASSEMBLY MEETING ON FINANCING FOR DEVELOPMENT

It’s a Matter of Morality, Security, Enlightened Self-interest, He Stresses

SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES REFORM PROCESS FORWARD IN WORLD SUMMIT ADDRESS,

SAYING ‘WE STAND OR FALL TOGETHER’ IN FACING CRUCIAL CHALLENGES

Following is UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s address to the 2005 World Summit in New York, 14 September:

Security Council

5261^st Meeting (AM)

SECURITY COUNCIL MEETING OF WORLD LEADERS CALLS FOR LEGAL PROHIBITION

OF TERRORIST INCITEMENT, ENHANCED STEPS TO PREVENT ARMED CONFLICT

Resolutions 1624 (2005), 1625 (2005) Adopted Unanimously

Sixtieth General Assembly

Plenary

4^th Meeting (PM)

General Assembly summit focuses on quest to relieve crushing poverty,

need to boost un’s ability to live up to founders’ ideals

Thirty-Six Presidents, Prime Ministers Address Afternoon Session of World Summit

Sixtieth General Assembly

Plenary

3^rd Meeting (AM)

WORLD SUMMIT EXAMINES PROGRESS IN MEETING DEVELOPMENT FINANCING COMMITMENTS

MADE FIVE YEARS AGO IN MONTERREY

Sixtieth General Assembly

Plenary

2^nd Meeting (AM)

WORLD LEADERS AT GENERAL ASSEMBLY SUMMIT URGED TO PERSEVERE, TAKE BOLD STEPS

TO TACKLE URGENT CHALLENGES, AS LIVES OF MILLIONS HANG IN THE BALANCE

UN HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS OFFICE CALLS FOR URGENT INCREASE IN SUPPORT

FOR MALAWI FLASH APPEAL AS PLANTING SEASON APPROACHES

INTERNATIONAL OZONE DAY TO MARK SIGNING OF MONTREAL PROTOCOL ON 16 SEPTEMBER

Vienna Convention to Celebrate

Two Decades of Protecting Ozone Layer on 21 September

(Reissued as received.)

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan arrived in London on Sunday, 4 September, to attend the Replenishment Meeting of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.

TRANSCRIPT OF PRESS CONFERENCE BY SECRETARY-GENERAL KOFI ANNAN

AT UNITED NATIONS HEADQUARTERS, 13 SEPTEMBER 2005

The Secretary-General:  Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen.  Let me also apologize for the delay, but I suspect you all knew what was happening, and it wasn’t in my hands.