NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF POLAND PRESENTS CREDENTIALS

(Based on information received from the Protocol and Liaison Service.)

The new Permanent Representative of Poland to the United Nations, Andrzej Towpik, today presented his credentials to Secretary-General Kofi Annan.

NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF TURKEY PRESENTS CREDENTIALS

(Based on information received from the Protocol and Liaison Service.)

The new Permanent Representative of Turkey to the United Nations, Baki Ilkin, today presented his credentials to Secretary-General Kofi Annan.

NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF SAINT LUCIA PRESENTS CREDENTIALS

 

(Based on information received from the Protocol and Liaison Service.)

Julian Robert Hunte, the new Permanent Representative of Saint Lucia to the United Nations, presented his credentials to Secretary-General Kofi Annan today.

SECRETARY-GENERAL NOTES UN’S ‘ENDURING SYSTEM-WIDE COMMITMENT TO FAMILIES’

 

AS GENERAL ASSEMBLY COMMEMORATES tenth ANNIVERSARY OF INTERNATIONAL YEAR

 

Following are Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s remarks to the General Assembly on the Tenth Anniversary of the International Year of the Family in New York, 6 December:

SECRETARY-GENERAL’s REMARKS TO ANNUAL UN CORRESPONDENTS’ ASSOCIATION DINNER

 

Following is the text of remarks by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the annual dinner of the United Nations Correspondents’ Association (UNCA) on 3 December:

I am delighted and relieved to be back with you all at the UNCA dinner.  It’s been three years since we were last together like this.  It feels more like three decades.

SECURITY COUNCIL COMMITTEE ON CÔTE D’IVOIRE BEGINS WORK, DRAWS

 

ATTENTION TO ARMS EMBARGO IMPOSED BY RESOLUTION 1572

 

The Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1572 (2004) concerning Côte d’Ivoire, held its first meeting today, 6 December 2004.

The Committee’s task is to oversee the implementation of the measures imposed on Côte d’Ivoire by resolution 1572 (2004) as follows:

SECURITY COUNCIL COMMITTEE ADDS SEVEN A.K.A.’S OF ONE ENTITY

IN AL-QAIDA SECTION OF ITS CONSOLIDATED LIST

 

The Al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Committee on 2 December 2004 approved the addition of seven a.k.a.’s for one entity in the Al-Qaida section of its consolidated list (the additions have been underlined in the entry below).

78. *Name:  JAMA’AT AL-TAWHID WA’AL-JIHAD (JTJ)

SECURITY COUNCIL COMMITTEE APPROVES CORRECTION OF IDENTIFYING INFORMATION

OF FIFTY-THREE INDIVIDUALS, TEN ENTITES ON CONSOLIDATED LIST

Note to Correspondents

UN BRINGS AID TO STORM-STRUCK PHILIPPINES

 

NEW YORK, 6 December (UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs) -- In the aftermath of a series of storms that pounded the Philippines last week, UN agencies are working together to respond to needs created by the disaster.