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THROUGH GLOBAL COMPACT, BUSINESS CAN JOIN WITH OTHERS TO FIND SOLUTION TO POVERTY,

SOCIAL INJUSTICE, SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS CEREMONY LAUNCHING COMPACT IN EGYPT

Following is the message by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the ceremony launching the Global Compact in Egypt, delivered by S. Iqbal Riza, Chef de Cabinet, Executive Office of the Secretary-General, in Cairo today:

SECRETARY-GENERAL ANNOUNCES FACT-FINDING TEAM HAS ARRIVED IN BAGHDAD

The following statement by Secretary-GeneralKofi Annan was issued by the Spokesman on 7 February:

Note to Correspondents

CONFERENCE AT UNITED NATIONS HEADQUARTERS ON 11 FEBRUARY TO EXAMINE

HOW INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CAN IMPROVE LIVES OF OLDER PEOPLE

A conference on “Caring Communities for the 21st Century:  Imagining the Possible -- Age of Connectivity:  Harnessing the Generations” will take place on Wednesday, 11 February at United Nations Headquarters (Conference Room 2) from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

UNITED NATIONS TEAM ARRIVES AT INDONESIAN QUAKE SCENE

NEW YORK, 9 February (OCHA) -- Following the series of earthquakes that hit Papua province in Indonesia, a team from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) arrived in Nabire on 8 February.  The team is supporting local authorities in assessing damages and needs.

Fifty-eighth General Assembly                              

AD HOC COMMITTEE ON ELABORATION OF UN CONVENTION AGAINST TRANSNATIONAL

ORGANIZED CRIME CONCLUDES SESSION IN VIENNA

(Reissued as received.)

Commission for Social Development                          

Forty-Second Session                                       

UN STRONGLY COMMITTED TO WORKING WITH LIBERIANS TO ESTABLISH RULE OF LAW, PROMOTE

TRANSPARENCY, PURSUE JUSTICE, SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS RECONSTRUCTION CONFERENCE

Following is the text of opening remarks, as delivered by Secretary-General Kofi Annan at the International Reconstruction Conference on Liberia, in New York today:

SECRETARY-GENERAL APPALLED AT ‘INDISCRIMINATE ACT OF TERRORISM’ IN MOSCOW SUBWAY

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL ‘DEEPLY CONCERNED’ ABOUT INCREASING VIOLENCE IN HAITI

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

The Secretary-General has been closely following the situation in Haiti and is deeply concerned about the increasing violence.  Yesterday’s events in the city of Gonaives constitute a further escalation in the violence that is affecting the country.