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GA/AB/3641
29/10/2004
Press Release
GA/AB/3641

Fifty-ninth gaga

Fifth Committee

17th Meeting (AM)


UN staff representativeS tell Budget Committee

 

concerns ignored in management reform effort

 


Emphasize Respect for Secretary-General’s Vision, Goals,

But Cannot Support Erosion of Staff Rights, Dissolution of Oversight


(Issued on 1 November 2004.)

SG/SM/9566-AFG/266
28/10/2004
Press Release
SG/SM/9566
AFG/266

Secretary-General Deeply Dismayed at Abduction of three UN staff in Afghanistan


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


The Secretary-General today learned with deep regret and dismay that three international staff contracted by the UN Development Programme were abducted from a UN vehicle at approximately 1:00 in the afternoon, local time, in Kabul, Afghanistan.

SG/SM/9565
28/10/2004
Press Release
SG/SM/9565

There has never been more pressing need to engage in constructive debate, heal

 

divisions, Secretary-General tells national institute of social sciences


Following are Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s remarks on receiving the National Institute of Social Sciences Gold Medal on 27 October in New York:


Thank you, Arthur [Ross], for those kind words.

SC/8229
28/10/2004
Press Release
SC/8229

Press Statement by Security Council President on Great Lakes Region of Africa

 


Following is the text of the statement to the press delivered on 27 October by Security Council President Adam Thomson (United Kingdom):


Members of the Security Council heard a briefing by the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for the Great Lakes, Mr. Ibrahima Fall, on the preparatory process of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region.