‘MAY WE ALL LEARN AND ACT ON THE LESSONS OF SREBRENICA’, SAYS

 

SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN MESSAGE TO ANNIVERSARY CEREMONY

 

Following is UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message to the ceremony marking the tenth anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre, delivered by Mark Malloch Brown, Chef de Cabinet, in Potocari-Srebrenica, 11 July:

LASTING PEACE FOR SUDAN NOW WITHIN REACH, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL,

AT INAUGURATION OF SUDANESE PRESIDENCY IN KHARTOUM

 

Following is the statement of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan at the inauguration of the Sudanese Presidency in Khartoum, Sudan, 9 July:

I am honoured to be with you on this historic day -- a day of great hope for the Sudanese people, who have suffered so long.

SECURITY COUNCIL PRESS STATEMENT ON ETHIOPIA AND ERITREA

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

Members of the Council heard a briefing from the Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations on the situation between Ethiopia and Eritrea during informal consultations on 11 July.

SECURITY COUNCIL COMMITTEE MEETS SENIOR OFFICIALS OF NETHERLANDS TO DISCUSS

 

IMPLEMENTATION OF SANCTIONS AGAINST AL-QAIDA, TALIBAN

 

MORE THAN 20 FOOD STANDARDS ADOPTED, ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE

 

TASK FORCE CREATED AT ANNUAL MEETING OF FOOD CODE COMMISSION

 

(Reissued as received.)

Note to Correspondents

‘WHY ARE YOU NOT THERE?’ EXHIBIT ON SREBRENICA MASSACRE

 

OPENS AT UN HEADQUARTERS 11 JULY

HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE OPENS EIGHTY-FOURTH SESSION

 

(Reissued as received.)

Fifty-ninth General Assembly

Third Committee

56^th Meeting* (AM)

THIRD COMMITTEE ELECTS REMAINING MEMBERS OF BUREAU FOR 60^TH SESSION

The Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) this morning concluded its deliberations for the fifty-ninth session of the General Assembly with the election of the remaining members of its bureau for the sixtieth session.

UN CONFERENCE OF CIVIL SOCIETY IN SUPPORT OF MIDDLE EAST PEACE,

 

IN PARIS, 12 – 13 JULY

(Received from a UN Information Officer.)

Fifty-Ninth General Assembly

Plenary

111^th Meeting* (PM)

General Assembly opens debate on ‘group of four’-sponsored draft resolution

 

on Security Council reform

21 Speakers Weigh in on Council Enlargement, Veto Power

And Equitable Geographical Representation, as Competing Proposals Are Cited