Early on Friday morning, 19 November, Secretary-General Kofi Annan left Nairobi for Tanzania’s commercial capital, Dar-es-Salaam, where he attended the International Conference on Peace, Security and Development in the Great Lakes Region.

SECRETARY-GENERAL HAILS WOMEN AS MOST COURAGEOUS, CREATIVE CHAMPIONS

 

IN FIGHT AGAINST HIV/AIDS, IN WORLD AIDS DAY MESSAGE

 

Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message on World AIDS Day, observed on 1 December:

Secretary-General calls for incentives to persuade various iraqi groups

to participate in national reconciliation process

 

International Community Must Unite

Around Mission of Supporting Political Transition, He Says

Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s address to the International Conference on Iraq in Sharm el Sheik, Egypt, today, 23 November:

Secretary-General delighted by hostage release in afgHanistan

 

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

Security Council

5086^th Meeting (AM & PM)

Officials of UN war crimes Tribunals for former Yugoslavia, Rwanda brief

 

Security Council on progress towards concluding trials by 2008

Say Courts Resolved to Meet Council Deadlines, but Obstacles

Include Underfunding, Lack of Cooperation in Apprehending Fugitives

Fifty-ninth General Assembly

Third Committee

51^st & 52^nd Meetings (AM & PM)

third committee approves draft resolutions on children’s rights,

self-determination, new international humanitarian order

In Seven Separate Recorded Votes,

Delegates Reject Amendments to Omnibus Text on Rights of Child

Fifty-ninth General Assembly

Plenary

60^th Meeting (AM)

GENERAL ASSEMBLY URGES STATES TO FURTHER INTEGRATE PUBLIC HEALTH INTO NATIONAL

DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES, AS IT CONCLUDES DEBATE ON MILLENNIUM SUMMIT REVIEW

Also Hears Introduction of Draft Resolution,

Speakers on Occupied Territories of Azerbaijan

Special Representative of Secretary-General deeply

 

concerned at escalating violence in Darfur

 

Following is the text of a statement by the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Sudan on the latest upsurge of violence in Darfur:

UNIFEM, INSTRAW SIGN AGREEMENT FOR INCREASED COLLABORATION, COOPERATION

 

TO PROMOTE GENDER EQUALITY, WOMEN’s EMPOWERMENT

 

Secretary-General Kofi Annan arrived in Nairobi, Kenya, in the evening of Wednesday, 17 November 2004.