Note to Correspondents

SWORDS INTO PLOWSHARES/TONY PRICE:  ATOMIC ART EXHIBITION

 

OF SCULPTURES OPENS AT UN HEADQUARTERS ON 5 MAY

 

Note to Correspondents

SAINT PETERSBURG PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA TO HOLD CONCERT ON 7 MAY,

 

CELEBRATING 60TH ANNIVERSARY OF END OF SECOND WORLD WAR

 

NPT Review Conference

5^th & 6^th Meetings (AM & PM)

FLASH UPDATE -- 2005 JOINT HUMANITARIAN APPEAL FOR ETHIOPIA

 

(Reissued as received.)

FIVE NEW MEMBERS JOIN INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL BOARD

(Reissued as received.)

VIENNA, 3 May (UN Information Service) -- Five new Board members from Australia, Colombia, Ghana, Russian Federation and Turkey joined the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), as it began its eighty-third session in Vienna, which is being held from 2 to 13 May.

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, accompanied by his wife Nane, arrived in New Delhi late on Monday, 25 April, from Jakarta, Indonesia, where he had attended the Asian-African Summit.

NUCLEAR WEAPON BAN ONLY GUARANTEE THEY WILL NEVER AGAIN BE USED,

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN REMARKS TO MAYORS FOR PEACE

Following are UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s remarks to the Mayors Conference at the United Nations on the theme “Ending the Threat of Nuclear Devastation”, in New York, 3 May:

IN MESSAGE FOR WORLD TELECOMMUNICATION DAY, SECRETARY-GENERAL

CALLS FOR ‘TRULY GLOBAL INFORMATION SOCIETY’ BENEFITING ALL

Following is the message by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan for World Telecommunications Day, 17 May 2005:

FRANÇOIS LONSENY FALL APPOINTED SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE

 

OF SECRETARY-GENERAL FOR SOMALIA

 

Secretary-General Kofi Annan has designated François Lonseny Fall as his Special Representative for Somalia and Head of the United Nations Political Office for Somalia (UNPOS).  Mr. Fall will assume his duties later this month in Nairobi, Kenya, where the Office is currently located.

Committee on Information

Twenty-seventh Session

5^th Meeting (PM)

CONCLUDING CURRENT SESSION, COMMITTEE ON INFORMATION REAFFIRMS UNITED NATIONS

AS ‘INDISPENSABLE FOUNDATION’ OF PEACEFUL, JUST WORLD

Says UN’s Voice Must Be Heard in Clear, Effective Manner,

Emphasizing Essential Role of Department of Public Information