Note to Correspondents

INTERNATIONAL DAY OF DISABLED PERSONS TO BE

 

OBSERVED AT UN HEADQUARTERS ON 3 DECEMBER

 

“Nothing About Us Without Us”, the slogan of the international disability movement, will be the theme of the International Day of Disabled Persons 2004, to be observed at the United Nations Headquarters on Friday, 3 December.

Fifty-ninth General Assembly

Plenary

62^nd & 63^rd Meetings (AM & PM)

SPEAKERS IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY URGE ISRAEL, PALESTINIANS TO SEIZE NEW HOPE PRESENTED

BY JANUARY 2005 ELECTIONS FOR WIDER MIDDLE EAST PEACE

 

Secretary-General, in message to dakar forum, links work on water,

sanitation with wider effort to alleviate poverty

 

Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message to the Global WASH Forum in Dakar, from today, 29 November to 3 December 2004:

SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS EXPANDING MEMBERSHIP IN CHEMICAL WEAPONS TREATY ‘VITAL’

FOR INTERNATIONAL SECURITY, AS STATES PARTIES MEET IN THE HAGUE

 

Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message to the ninth session of the Conference of the States Parties to the Chemical Weapons Convention, delivered by Sergei Ordzhonikidze, Director-General, United Nations Office in Geneva, in The Hague, 29 November:

UKRAINE:  SECRETARY-GENERAL REITERATES CALL FOR MAXIMUM RESTRAINT BY ALL

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

The Secretary-General has been following closely and with concern developments in Ukraine over the weekend as that nation struggles to resolve the crisis that has developed over the run-off presidential election on 21 November.

SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES RENEWED COMMITMENT TO ‘REINVIGORATED’ MIDDLE EAST

PEACE PROCESS, ON DAY OF SOLIDARITY WITH PALESTINIAN PEOPLE

Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message on the occasion of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, in New York, 29 November:

Secretary-General’s message to anti-hiv/aids group hails leadership,

integrity, courage of young people in struggle against disease

Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message to Dance4Life, in Cape Town on 27 November 2004, as delivered by Nafis Sadik, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for HIV/AIDS in Asia and the Pacific:

Security Council

5090^th Meeting (PM)

SECURITY COUNCIL EXTENDS MANDATE OF UN MISSION IN HAITI UNTIL 1 JUNE 2005

Resolution 1576 (2004) Adopted Unanimously

Security Council

5089^th Meeting* (AM)

 

Briefing Security Council on Kosovo situation, Special

Representative says ‘endgame may be in sight’

 

But, Citing Potentially Fragile Security

Environment, He Appeals to NATO to Maintain Current Force Size

Committee on the Inalienable Rights

of the Palestinian People

283^rd Meeting (AM)

arafat’s memory should strengthen palestinian efforts to realize statehood,

Secretary-General says at observance of International day of solidarity

Palestinian Rights Committee Also Hears

Messages from Presidents of General Assembly, Security Council