Note to Correspondents

CAPITAL MASTER PLAN ON REFURBISHING UN HEADQUARTERS

 

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

The United Nations Headquarters complex is in need of major renovation.

-- Regular maintenance cannot keep pace with deterioration.

-- A fire sprinkler system does not exist.

UNITED NATIONS COMPENSATION COMMISSION PAYS OUT $195 MILLION

(Reissued as received.)

FUTURE OF SOCIETIES DEPENDS ON IMPROVING HEALTH OF EVERY MOTHER AND CHILD,

SAYS GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT, IN WORLD HEALTH DAY MESSAGE

Following is the message of Jean Ping (Gabon), President of the General Assembly, for World Health Day, observed 7 April:

Hundreds of thousands of women and millions of children die every year because they do not have access to quality health care.

Fifty-Ninth General Assembly

Plenary

87^th & 88^th Meetings (AM & PM)

REGIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON IMPLEMENTATION OF UN PROGRAMME OF ACTION

ON ILLICIT SMALL ARMS TRADE TO BE HELD IN ALGIERS, 11-13 APRIL

SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES IVORIAN PARTIES TO IMPLEMENT COMMITMENTS PROMPTLY,

IN GOOD FAITH, FOLLOWING SUCCESSFUL MEETING IN PRETORIA

 

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL CONDEMNS ATTACK IN JAMMU AND KASHMIR

 

AIMED AT INAUGURAL BUS SERVICE ACROSS LINE OF CONTROL

 

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

The Secretary-General strongly condemns the attack that took place on a complex, housing passengers for tomorrow’s inaugural bus service between Muzzafarabad and Srinagar across the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir.

SECRETARY-GENERAL CONGRATULATES IRAQIS ON ELECTION OF PRESIDENTS, VICE-PRESIDENTS;

SAYS UN STANDS READY TO SUPPORT RECONSTRUCTION

 

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL SADDENED AT DEATH OF PRINCE RAINIER III OF MONACO

 

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

Commission on Population and Development

Thirty-Eight Session

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

IN POPULATION COMMISSION, KEYNOTE SPEAKER CALLS FOR ‘MARSHALL PLAN’

 

BY RICH COUNTRIES TO COUNTER AIDS EPIDEMIC

 

Most Speakers Say Achieving Millennium Goals, including Those on AIDS,

Requires Increased Resources for Reproductive Health Services, Care, Education