ADDRESS BY DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF UNOG AT MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR THOSE KILLED

IN ATTACK ON UNITED NATIONS IN BAGHDAD

GENEVA, 29 August (UN Information Service) -- Following is the address by Sergei Ordzhonikidze, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, at the memorial service held today at the Palais des Nations for those killed and wounded in the attack on United Nations headquarters in Baghdad on 19 August 2003:

‘WE PRAY FOR THE RECOVERY OF THE INJURED, AND WE MOURN THOSE WHO HAVE DIED’,

SAYS DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL AT MEMORIAL CEREMONY IN GENEVA

Following is the statement delivered by Louise Fréchette, Deputy Secretary-General, at the Palais des Nations on the occasion of the ceremony for the victims of the attack of the United Nations Office in Baghdad:

ALMATY PLAN FOR LANDLOCKED COUNTRIES ANTICIPATES CANCUN TRADE MEETING

(Received from a UN Information Officer.)

ALMATY, KAZAKHSTAN, 29 August -- Wrapping up an international ministerial conference on the needs of low-income landlocked countries which he termed “a grand success”, United Nations High Representative Anwarul Chowdhury said that the toughest negotiations earlier in the week had to do with improved trade status for these nations.

Conference on Facilitating Entry into Force of Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty To Be Held In Vienna, 3 – 5 September

UNEP SENDS ADVISOR TO PAKISTAN OIL SPILL SITE

(Reissued as received.)

NAIROBI/BANGKOK, 28 August (UNEP) -- The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has dispatched one of its emergency response specialists to Pakistan to assist the authorities to assess the damage caused by oil spilled from the tanker MT Tasman Spirit.

The UNEP Executive Director Klaus Toepfer said this followed a request for assistance from the Pakistan Government.

REPRESENTATIVES OF GREECE, FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA MEET

UNDER AUSPICES OF SECRETARY-GENERAL

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL PRAISES GLOBAL UNION FEDERATION FOR PROMOTING PRINCIPLES

OF GLOBAL COMPACT, IN MESSAGE TO NORWAY CONGRESS

Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message to the Third Congress of the International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers’ Unions in Stavanger, Norway, 28-30 August:

UN COMMITTED TO HELPING LANDLOCKED DEVELOPING COUNTRIES OVERCOME OBSTACLES

TO DEVELOPMENT SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL TO ALMATY CONFERENCE

FREE, PEACEFUL IRAQ WILL IN TIME BE FITTING MEMORIAL TO LOST COLLEAGUES

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN MESSAGE TO OSLO SERVICE

Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message for the memorial service honouring victims of the bombing of the United Nations mission in Iraq, delivered by Terje Roed-Larsen, Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, in Oslo, 28 August:

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