Press Release

Fifty-eighth General Assembly

Plenary

60^th Meeting (AM & PM)

GENERAL ASSEMBLY, IN FOUR ROUNDS OF VOTING, ELECTS 18 MEMBERS

OF ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL

HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS OFFICE CONTINUES SECURITY ASSESSMENTS IN LIBERIA

NEW YORK, 11 November (OCHA) -- Over the weekend, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Liberia fielded an inter-agency security and protection mission to assess the security situation in Gbarnga and Zorzor prior to United Nations and non-governmental organization intervention in the area.

Secretary-General Kofi Annan departed New York for Chile in the evening of Tuesday, 4 November, and arrived the following morning in Santiago, on the first leg of a four-nation visit to Latin America.

SECRETARY-GENERAL, CALLING GALAPAGOS SHOWCASE OF INTERDEPENDENCE,

WARNS AGAINST COSTLY INACTION IN FACE OF THREAT TO BIODIVERSITY

     Following is the text of a video message taped by Secretary-General Kofi Annan at the Charles Darwin Foundation, Galapagos National Park, Ecuador, yesterday:

SECRETARY-GENERAL STRONGLY CONDEMNS RIYADH TERRORIST ATTACK

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

The Secretary-General is horrified by last night's attack against a residential compound in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, that reportedly killed at least 10 innocent people and injured many others.  He condemns this terrorist act in the strongest possible terms.

SECRETARY-GENERAL CITES LATIN AMERICAN, CARIBBEAN EXPERIENCE

TO HIGHLIGHT IMPORTANCE OF UN REFORM AT SANTIAGO ROUND TABLE

Following is the text of remarks by the Secretary-General at a round table on “Renewal of the United Nations and the Global Situation” on Friday, 7 November:

SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN VISIT TO HISTORIC GUAYAQUIL, ECUADOR,

SAYS CITIES CAN BE MODELS OF DEMOCRACY, DIVERSITY

Following is the text of remarks by Secretary-General Kofi Annan upon arrival in Guayaquil, Ecuador, on Friday 7 November:

Note to Correspondents

UN UNIVERSITY TO LAUNCH KEY REPORTS ON ENVIRONMENTAL

GOVERNANCE AT SEMINAR ON 14 NOVEMBER

COMMITTEE AGAINST TORTURE HEARS FROM SECRETARY-GENERAL’S

REPRESENTATIVE AT OPENING OF THIRTY-FIRST SESSION

(Reissued as received.)

GENEVA, 10 November -- The Committee against Torture opened this morning its thirty-first session by hearing an address from Jane Connors, a Representative of the Secretary-General, and adopting its agenda.

Fifty-eighth General Assembly

Third Committee

37^th & 38^th Meetings (AM & PM)

ADDRESSING THIRD COMMITTEE, ACTING HIGH COMMISSIONER STRESSES LINK BETWEEN PROMOTION

OF HUMAN RIGHTS, POVERTY ERADICATION AND DEVELOPMENT

Issues Related to Migrants, Cambodia also Discussed