CROSS-BORDER ATTACK BY MILITIA LEAVES 44 DEAD,

 

INCLUDING 21 SCHOOLCHILDREN, IN KENYA

 

Committee on Elimination of

Discrimination against Women

691^st & 692^nd Meetings (AM & PM)

WOMEN’S ANTI-DISCRIMINATION COMMITTEE TAKES UP LEBANON’S REPORT,

COMMENDS IMPRESSIVE STEPS TAKEN TO PROMOTE GENDER EQUALITY

 

Also Urges Elimination of Discrimination in Family

Relations, Citizenship, More Attention to Violence against Women

SECRETARY-GENERAL STRONGLY CONDEMNS BEIRUT TERRORIST BOMBING,

CALLS ON ALL PARTIES TO WORK TOWARDS UNITED LEBANON

 

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL THANKS CIVIL SOCIETY FOR BUILDING BRIDGES OF UNDERSTANDING

BETWEEN ISRAELIS, PALESTINIANS, IN MESSAGE TO PARIS MEETING

 

Following is UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message to the United Nations International Conference of Civil Society in Support of Middle East Peace, delivered by Sergei Ordzhonikidze, Director-General, United Nations Office at Geneva, in Paris, 12 July :

SECRETARY-GENERAL STRONGLY CONDEMNS SUICIDE ATTACK IN ISRAEL

 

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

The Secretary-General strongly condemns the suicide attack in Israel today that took at least two lives, and wounded many others.  He is unwavering in his conviction that nothing can justify terror.

Following are UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s remarks at the Security Council debate on the role of the Security Council in humanitarian crises, in New York, 12 July:

SECURITY COUNCIL PRESS STATEMENT ON MIDDLE EAST

 

Following is the Security Council press statement on the Middle East, delivered today by Council President Adamantios Th. Vassilakis (Greece):

The members of the Security Council unequivocally condemned the terrorist bombing in Lebanon today that killed one person north of Beirut and wounded several others, including Lebanon’s Defence Minister, Elias Al-Murr.

Security Council

5225^th Meeting (AM)

SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENTIAL STATEMENT STRESSES ‘MORAL IMPERATIVE’

OF PREVENTING ESCALATION OF ARMED CONFLICTS, HUMANITARIAN CRISES

Secretary-General Says ‘Our Task Should Be to Prevent Such Suffering’;

Too Often, Efforts Failed because Threat Not Recognized until Too Late

Note to Correspondents

JAPAN TO DONATE MORE THAN 30,000 DIGITIZED DOCUMENTS TO UNITED NATIONS

 

FOR INCLUSION IN OFFICIAL DOCUMENT SYSTEM

 

CATEGORY IV HURRICANE DENNIS RESPONSIBLE FOR 23 DEATHS IN JAMAICA, HAITI, CUBA