Press Release

ENTIRE SOCIETIES NEED TO GET INVOLVED IN COUNTERING DRUG ABUSE, UN COMMISSION

ON NARCOTIC DRUGS TOLD, AS IT BEGINS 47TH SESSION

SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN MESSAGE TO ANNUAL DIPLOMACY LECTURE, PRAISES SENATOR

JESSE HELMS FOR FOSTERING STRONGER RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN US, UN

Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s video message to the first Helms International Diplomacy Lecture in Washington, D.C., 15 March:

JOSE ANTONIO OCAMPO TO SERVE AS UN FOCAL POINT FOR BOLIVIA

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL ‘STRONGLY CONDEMNS’ DOUBLE SUICIDE BOMBING IN ASHDOD, ISRAEL

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

Human Rights Committee

Eightieth Session

2166^th & 2167^th Meetings (AM & PM)

HUMAN RIGHTS BODY OPENS SESSION, REVIEWS COLOMBIA’S HUMAN RIGHTS RECORD

The United Nations expert panel monitoring the efforts of world governments to ensure respect for civil liberties, promote self-determination, and safeguard fundamental freedoms kicked off its first substantive session of 2004 today in New York.

COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS BEGINS HIGH-LEVEL SEGMENT

Foreign Ministers of Ireland, Germany, Paraguay,

And Senior Official from Nigeria Deliver Statements

(Reissued as received.)

Fifty-eighth General Assembly                              

TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF RWANDA GENOCIDE SHOULD PROMPT REMORSE, RESOLVE

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL TO OTTAWA SYMPOSIUM

Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message to the Symposium on the Media and the Rwanda Genocide at Carleton University School of Journalism and Communication in Ottawa, 13 March:

Commission on the Status of Women                          

Forty-eighth Session                                       

16^th Meeting (PM)

VIENNA MEETING CALLS FOR ENHANCED EFFORTS AGAINST TERRORISM

UN, OSCE Agree to Expand Joint Counter-Terrorism Activities

(Reissued as received.)