Fifty-ninth General Assembly

Plenary

67^th Meeting (AM)

IN ADDRESS TO SUMMIT ON MINE-FREE WORLD, SECRETARY-GENERAL PLEDGES

SUPPORT IN IMPLEMENTING STRATEGY FOR NEXT FIVE YEARS

He Also Underlines Need to Keep Mine Victims’ Needs Constantly in Mind

Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s address via satellite link-up to the Nairobi Summit on a Mine-Free World today, 3 December 2004:

SECRETARY-GENERAL PROFOUNDLY SADDENED BY LOSS OF LIFE, DESTRUCTION

 

WROUGHT BY POWERFUL STORMS IN PHILIPPINES

 

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

Fifty-ninth General Assembly

Second Committee

37^th Meeting (PM)

second committee approves Text calling for timely international response

to joint 2005 appeal for emergency assistance for ethiopia

 

Draft Resolution on Humanitarian Aid, Six Others Approved Without Vote

Fifty-ninth General Assembly

Plenary

66^th Meeting (AM)

GENERAL ASSEMBLY ADOPTS 55 TEXTS RECOMMENDED BY FIRST COMMITTEE

ON A WIDE RANGE OF DISARMAMENT, SECURITY MATTERS

Also Approves $21.8 Million for Sudan Advance Team

NAIROBISUMMIT ENDS WITH POWERFUL ACTION PLAN: INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY

 

RENEWS COMMITMENT TO WORLD FREE OF ANTI-PERSONNEL MINES

 

(Received from a UN Information Officer.)

NAIROBI, 3 December -- The landmark Nairobi Summit on a Mine-Free World has closed with the international community recommitted to ending the suffering caused by anti-personnel mines.

Secretary-General, in message to mark international human rights day,

says human rightS equip people to live in security, dignity

Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message on International Human Rights Day, observed on 10 December 2004:

Secretary-General disturbed by increasing tension

 

between Democratic Republic of Congo, rwanda

 

Following is a statement attributable to the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

educating girls on protection a necessity, not an option, Secretary-General

stresses in remarks to world aids day event

 

Real, Positive Change Will Allow Women to Play

Their Role Fully in Struggle against HIV/AIDS, He Says

Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s remarks at the World AIDS Day event at the Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine in New York, yesterday, 1 December:

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES RECOMMENDATIONS ON MORE

 

SECURE WORLD, STRENGTHENED UNITED NATIONS

 

NEW YORK, 2 December -- United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today gave strong support to an eagerly awaited report on meeting the world’s new and evolving security threats, presented to him this morning by the chairman of an independent panel, former Prime Minister Anand Panyarachun of Thailand.