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UNCTAD REPORT INDICATES NEW INTERNET APPLICATIONS

GAINING GROUND IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

(Reissued as received.)

UNCTAD REPORT SAYS E-COMMERCE STRONG IN DEVELOPED COUNTRIES, WITH POSITIVE IMPACT;

OTHERS URGED TO SHOW POLITICAL WILL FOR TECHNICAL PROGRESS

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SECRETARY-GENERAL’S STATEMENT TO SECURITY COUNCIL MEETING

ON CONCLUSION OF UN OIL-FOR-FOOD PROGRAMME FOR IRAQ

This is the text of the statement by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the Security Council this afternoon on the conclusion of the “oil-for-food” programme for Iraq:

SECRETARY-GENERAL STRONGLY CONDEMNS DEADLY ISTANBUL BOMBINGS

Following is a statement issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

SECRETARY-GENERAL UNDERLINES IMPORTANCE OF INTERNAL TRANSPARENCY, INTEGRITY

IN MESSAGE TO TRIPARTITE OVERSIGHT COORDINATION MEETING

Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message to the Sixth United Nations Tripartite Oversight Coordination Meeting delivered by Sergei Ordzhonikidze, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, today, 20 November:

SECRETARY-GENERAL, URGING INTERNATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR GREAT LAKES

CONFERENCE, CALLS FOR WIDE, SUSTAINED PARTICIPATION

Addressing Security Council, He Emphasizes Need

For Regional Approach to Consolidate National Peace Processes

Following is the text of Secretary-GeneralKofi Annan’s statement at the meeting of the Security Council on the Great Lakes today, 20 November:

SECRETARY-GENERAL HAILS WINNERS OF ENVIRONMENT PRIZE FOR COURAGE,

CREATIVITY, WILLINGNESS TO FORGE PARTNERSHIPS

Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s remarks at the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Sasakawa Environment Prize ceremony yesterday, 19 November:

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4868^th Meeting (PM)

SECURITY COUNCIL STRESSES NEED FOR CONTINUITY IN IRAQ RECONSTRUCTION,

WITH CONCLUSION OF ‘OIL-FOR-FOOD’ PROGRAMME ON 21 NOVEMBER

Secretary-General Expresses Pride in Orderly Handover

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4867^th Meeting* (PM)

SECURITY COUNCIL CONDEMNS BOMB ATTACKS IN ISTANBUL,

UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTING RESOLUTION 1516 (2003)

The Security Council this afternoon condemned “in the strongest terms” the bomb attacks of 15 and 20 November 2003 in Istanbul, Turkey.

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4865^th Meeting (AM)

SECURITY COUNCIL APPEALS TO INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY TO SUPPORT