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Note to Correspondents

NEW GUIDES JOIN TOUR OPERATION AT UNITED NATIONS HEADQUARTERS

Background Release                                         

HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE TO HOLD 80THSESSION IN NEW YORK

FROM 15 MARCH TO 2 APRIL 2004

UNITED NATIONS RESPONDS TO MADAGASCAR CYCLONE

Commission on the Status of Women                          

Forty-eighth Session                                       

13^th Meeting (AM)

SECRETARY-GENERAL CALLS FOR REDEDICATION TO MISSION OF HALTING,

REVERSING GLOBAL TB INCIDENCE, IN MESSAGE ON WORLD DAY

Following is Secretary General Kofi Annan’s message on the occasion of World TB Day, observed 24 March:

SPECIAL COURT FOR SIERRA LEONE VITAL PART OF COUNTRY’S HEALING PROCESS,

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN MESSAGE TO OPENING

Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message for the opening of the buildings of the Special Court for Sierra Leone, delivered by Hans Correll, Legal Counsel of the United Nations, in Freetown, 10 March:

CHALLENGES OF TODAY’S ‘GLOBAL VILLAGE’ –- FEAR, WANT, ENVIRONMENTAL DEGREDATION

MUST BE ADDRESSED TOGETHER SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL AT OTTAWA CEREMONY

Following are Secretary-General’s Kofi Annan’s remarks on receiving honorary degrees from CarletonUniversity and the University of Ottawa, in Ottawa on 9 March:

President Van Loon, Rector Patry, Distinguished Members of the Diplomatic Corps, Ladies and gentlemen,

SECRETARY-GENERAL PRAISES ‘STRONG AND INVALUABLE’ PARTNERSHIP

BETWEEN CANADA, UN AT OTTAWA WELCOME CEREMONY

Following are Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s remarks at a welcome ceremony hosted by the Governor-General in Ottawa, 8 March:

I am deeply moved by those kind words, and by this warm welcome.

Nane and I always look forward to visiting Canada, even though we don’t come here often enough.

AMSTERDAM Conference Examines Links Between Reproductive Rights, Culture

Note to Correspondents

LIONS CLUBS INTERNATIONAL HOLDS 26^TH ANNUAL DAY WITH UNITED NATIONS ON 12 MARCH

Lions Clubs International members from around the world will meet at United Nations Headquarters on 12 March to mark the twenty-sixth annual “Lions Day with the United Nations”, an event sponsored by the Department of Public Information.  The theme of this year’s programme is “Innovation”.