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Committee on NGOs

28^th & 29^th Meetings (AM & PM)

NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE OPENS 2003 RESUMED SESSION,

RECOMMENDS CONSULTATIVE STATUS FOR 44 ORGANIZATIONS

Fifty-eighth General Assembly

Second Committee

39^th Meeting (PM)

SECOND COMMITTEE DEFERS ACTION ON DRAFTS OVER TRANSLATION HITCH

The Second Committee (Economic and Financial) adjourned its meeting this afternoon before acting on any draft resolutions, after the representatives of France and the Russian Federation objected that the texts had not been translated into all six official United Nations languages.

TOP SOUTH-EAST EUROPEAN OFFICIALS MEET TO DISCUSS LAW

ENFORCEMENT AND ANTI-TRAFFICKING STRATEGIES

(Reissued as received.)

Secretary-General Kofi Annan arrived in Geneva on Monday morning, 8 December.

Let me start by thanking Professor Küng –- not only for that very kind introduction, but also for inviting me here to give this lecture.  I was deeply touched when, eighteen months ago in Berlin, he handed me a note asking me to do this as a birthday gift for him, at any time after his 75^th birthday on 19 March 2003.

ANTI-POVERTY GOALS CANNOT BE MET WITHOUT TRUE GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIP,

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN MESSAGE TO MARRAKESH CONFERENCE

Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message to the High-Level Conference on South-South Cooperation in Marrakesh, 16 December:

SECRETARY-GENERAL EXPRESSES GRATITUDE FOR GERMAN SUPPORT OF GLOBAL COMPACT; CALLS

ON BUSINESS, NGOS, GOVERNMENTS TO TAKE STAND FOR INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION

Following is the text of the toast by Secretary-General Kofi Annan at the Global Compact dinner hosted by German Chancellor Schroeder in Berlin on

11 December:

Security Council

4880^th Meeting (PM)

SECURITY COUNCIL, IN PRESIDENTIAL STATEMENT, EXPRESSES SUPPORT FOR ‘STANDARDS

FOR KOSOVO’, WELCOMES LAUNCH OF REVIEW MECHANISM

The Security Council this afternoon expressed support for the “Standards for Kosovo”, presented on 10 December in Pristina, after hearing a briefing yesterday from Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, Jean-Marie Guéhenno.

Security Council

4879^th Meeting** (AM)

NARROW WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITY EXISTS TO PUT MIDDLE EAST PEACE PROCESS

BACK ON TRACK, SPECIAL COORDINATOR TELLS SECURITY COUNCIL

UN INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION CELEBRATES

TENTH SESSION OF ITS GOVERNING CONFERENCE

(Reissued as received.)

The first week of December, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) celebrated the tenth session of its General Conference, the highest governing body of the agency of 171 member States.