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GENERAL ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON DISABILITY CONVENTION TO MEET

AT UN HEADQUARTERS, 23 AUGUST – 3 SEPtEMBER

NEW YORK, 19 August (UN Department of Public Information) -- The United Nations committee that is drafting the first-ever international convention on the rights of persons with disabilities will continue its work at a two-week session that starts on Monday at United Nations Headquarters.

IN MESSAGE TO VOLUNTEER CONFERENCE, SECRETARY-GENERAL PRAISES

CONTRIBUTION OF SHARON CAPELING-ALAKIJA

Following is the text of the message by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the eighteenth Volunteer Conference of the International Association for Volunteer Effort (IAVE), delivered today in Barcelona by Gillian Sorensen, Senior Adviser, United Nations Foundation:

REMARKS BY SECRETARY-GENERAL INTRODUCING BRAZILIAN

CULTURE MINISTER GILBERTO GIL AT CONCERT

Following are the remarks delivered in Geneva today by Secretary-General Kofi Annan when he introduced Brazilian Culture Minister Gilberto Gil at the concert marking the first anniversary of the attack on United Nations headquarters in Baghdad:

un family stands by families, loved ones of baghdad victims, Secretary-General

says in message on first anniversary of attack

Following is the message by Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the first anniversary of the attack on United Nations Headquarters in Baghdad, on 19 august 2004:

‘We will long feel the pain, but our sense of mission is intact’, Secretary-General

says on anniversary of attack on un Baghdad headquarters

Following is the text of remarks, as delivered today by Secretary-General Kofi Annan at the ceremony in Geneva marking the first anniversary of the attack on the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad:

Haiti can count on UN for help in regaining peace, stability, prosperity,

Secretary-General says in message for Brazil-Haiti football match

Following is the text of the video message by Secretary-General Kofi Annan, translated from French, on the occasion of the Brazil-Haiti football match in Port-au-Prince on 18 August:

Nations Unies ap di nou onè respè!  [Greetings to everyone from the United Nations!]

PRESS STATEMENT BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT ON KUWAITI, THIRD COUNTRY NATIONALS

Following is today’s press statement by Security Council President Andrey Denisov (Russian Federation) on Kuwaiti and third country nationals:

PRESS STATEMENT BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT ON FIRST ANNIVERSARY

OF BOMBING OF UN BAGHDAD OFFICE

Following is today’s press statement by Andrey Denisov (Russian Federation), President of the Security Council, on the first anniversary of the bombing of the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad:

UNITED NATIONS IN VIENNA OBSERVES FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF UN BAGHDAD TRAGEDY

(Reissued as received.)

VIENNA, 19 August (UN Information Service) -- A ceremony to commemorate the first anniversary of the bombing of the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad took place at the United Nations Office at Vienna (UNOV) today.  Simultaneous ceremonies were held in Amman, Geneva and New York.

ON ANNIVERSARY OF TRAGEDY IN BAGHDAD, GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT

RECALLS ‘COURAGE AND CONVICTION’ OF STAFF

The following statement was issued today in Johannesburg, South Africa by General Assembly President, Julian R. Hunte, on the observance of the first anniversary of the bombing of the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad: