GOAL OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS FREE WORLD STILL ‘A LONG WAY OFF’,

SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS HIROSHIMA PEACE MEMORIAL CEREMONY

Following is the text of the message by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the Peace Memorial Ceremony in Hiroshima today, delivered by Nobuyasu Abe, Under-Secretary-General for Disarmament Affairs:

Secretary-General’s message for ‘celebrate humanity’

campaign by international Olympic committee

Following is the text of a video message by Secretary-General Kofi Annan for the “Celebrate Humanity” Campaign by the International Olympic Committee:

The greatest moment of a swimming race is not when one swimmer begins to pull ahead of the pack, or when one touches the wall in victory.

Biographical Note

SECRETARY-GENERAL APPOINTS ROBERT C. ORR AS ASSISTANT SECRETARY-GENERAL

FOR POLICY COORDINATION AND STRATEGIC PLANNING

Note to Correspondents

INTERNATIONAL DAY OF WORLD’S INDIGENOUS PEOPLE

TO BE OBSERVED ON 9 AUGUST AT UN HEADQUARTERS

Each year, the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples (9 August) is observed at United Nations Headquarters with a ceremony and a cultural presentation.  This year’s observance will take place at 1:15 p.m. on Monday, 9 August, in the General Assembly Lobby (46th Street and First Avenue).

VITIT MUNTARBHORN APPOINTED UN SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON SITUATION

OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF KOREA

(Reissued as received.)

Committee on the Inalienable Rights                        

 of the Palestinian People                                 

280^th Meeting (AM)

Meeting of States Parties to Women’s                 

 Anti-Discrimination Convention                      

1^st Meeting (AM)

STATES PARTIES TO WOMEN’S ANTI-DISCRIMINATION CONVENTION

ELECT 11 EXPERTS TO MONITORING COMMITTEE

SECRETARY-GENERAL CALLS FOR PROMOTION OF SOLIDARITY BETWEEN GENERATIONS,

IN MESSAGE ON INTERNATIONAL YOUTH DAY

Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message on International Youth Day, observed 12 August:

JOINT EFFORTS, INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY CAN MAKE CRITICAL DIFFERENCE IN RESPONDING

TO REGION’S ASPIRATIONS, SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS PACIFICISLANDS FORUM SUMMIT

Security Council