Press Release

Fifty-eighth General Assembly

Fifth Committee

26^th Meeting (AM)

INSTITUTE FOR DISARMAMENT RESEARCH, LOGISTICS BASE AT BRINDISI

AMONG ISSUES ADDRESSED, AS BUDGET COMMITTEE ADOPTS SEVEN TEXTS

Fifty-eighth General Assembly

Plenary

73^rd Meeting (AM & PM)

INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS HONOURED AS GENERAL ASSEMBLY

MARKS FIFTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF UNIVERSAL DECLARATION

HUMANITARIAN ENVOY NOTES PROGRESS IN COTE D’IVOIRE

ABIDJAN, 10 December (UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs) -- “It is important that the parties to the conflict in Côte d’Ivoire now move forward and work together in order for the whole country to return to normality”, said Carolyn McAskie, the Humanitarian Envoy of the Secretary-General for the crisis in Côte d’Ivoire. 

COUNTRIES GATHER TO SIGN ON TO TOUGH NEW TREATY AGAINST CORRUPTION,

BEGINNING 9 DECEMBER IN MÉRIDA, MEXICO

(Reissued as received)

MÉRIDA, MEXICO, 8 December (UN Department of Public Information) -- More than 120 governments, most of them represented at the ministerial level, will meet in the southern Mexican city of Mérida for a signing conference for the first legally binding international agreement to attack corruption.

OPEN, INCLUSIVE INFORMATION SOCIETY THAT EMPOWERS ALL PEOPLE

SHOULD BE GENEVA SUMMIT LEGACY, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL

Following are Secretary-GeneralKofi Annan’s remarks at the official welcome ceremony for the World Summit on the Information Society, hosted by Pascal Couchepin, President of Switzerland, in Geneva, 9 December:

SECRETARY-GENERAL ALARMED BY DETERIORATING HUMANITARIAN SITUATION

IN DARFUR REGION OF SUDAN

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL SHOCKED BY TERROR ATTACK IN MOSCOW

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES FULL ENFORCEMENT OF NEW MERIDA CONVENTION,

SEEN AS MAJOR VICTORY IN STRUGGLE AGAINST CORRUPTION

WIN-WIN OUTCOMES POSSIBLE IF APPROACH TO MIGRATION IS RATIONAL, COMPASSIONATE,

SECRETARY-GENERAL ANNAN TELLS NEW GLOBAL COMMISSION

Following are the remarks made by Secretary-General Kofi Annan, at the launch of the Global Commission on International Migration today in Geneva:

ICT HAS TREMENDOUS POTENTIAL TO IMPROVE HEALTH, EDUCATION, GOVERNANCE, SAYS

SECRETARY-GENERAL IN MESSAGE AT LAUNCH OF GHANA-INDIA KOFI ANNAN CENTRE