SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES WORLD BODY TO CONTINUE SERVING HUMANITY, CONFRONT GLOBAL

THREATS, CONSIDER FURTHER CHANGE, IN UNITED NATIONS DAY MESSAGE

Following is the message of Secretary-General Kofi Annan on United Nations Day, 24 October:

These are difficult times, for the world and for the United Nations.

AS DIFFICULT TIMES STRAIN GLOBAL SYSTEM, SECRETARY-GENERAL LOOKS TO UN ASSOCIATION

OF UNITED STATES TO ‘DO WHAT YOU DO BEST’ –- TELL UN STORY

Following are Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s remarks at a dinner hosted by the United Nations Association – USA and the Business Council for the United Nations in New York on 8 October:

SECRETARY-GENERAL CONDEMNS LATEST TERRORIST INCIDENTS IN IRAQ,

REMAINS ‘GREATLY CONCERNED’ AT SECURITY SITUATION

This is the text of a statement today by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

SECRETARY-GENERAL STRESSES VITAL ROLE OF GLOBAL PARTNERSHIPS IN MESSAGE

TO AFRICARE DINNER HONOURING BILL AND MELINDA GATES

Following is the message to be delivered this evening by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the 2003 Africare Bishop Walker Dinner in Washington, D.C.:

PRESS STATEMENT BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT ON BURUNDI

This is the text of a statement on Burundi delivered today by the President of the Security Council, John Negroponte (United States):

Security Council members welcome the signing on 8 October of the Pretoria Protocol on political, defence and security power-sharing between the Transitional Government of Burundi and the CNDD-FDD.

PRESS STATEMENT BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT ON LIBERIA

Following is the text of a press statement on Liberia delivered today by the President of the Security Council, John Negroponte (United States):

Security Council

4838^th Meeting (PM)

OFFICIALS OF TRIBUNALS FOR RWANDA, FORMER YUGOSLAVIA BRIEF SECURITY COUNCIL;

DESCRIBE STRATEGIES FOR CONCLUDING TRIALS BY 2008 DEADLINE

Committee on Relations

with Host Country

218^th Meeting (PM)

UNITED STATES DELEGATE SAYS DIPLOMATIC PARKING PROGRAMME IN NEW YORK SUCCESSFUL,

WITH FAR FEWER TICKETS ISSUED

UN Host Country Committee Hears Complaints of Continuing

Problems; Action Promised if Missions Report to Authorities

Fifty-eighth General Assembly

Third Committee

7^th Meeting (PM)

THIRD COMMITTEE FOCUSES ON CORRUPTION, ORGANIZED CRIME, AS DEBATE BEGINS

ON ILLICIT DRUGS, CRIMINAL JUSTICE ISSUES

UNODC Executive Director Highlights Use of Modern Technology

In Money Laundering, Large-Scale Fraud, Attacks on Computer Systems

Committee on the Inalienable Rights

of the Palestinian People

274^th Meeting (AM)

BUILDING OF SEPARATION WALL, CONTINUING SETTLEMENT ACTIVITIES HARMFUL

TO CHANCES OF ACHIEVING PEACE, PALESTINE RIGHTS COMMITTEE TOLD

Palestine Observer Says Recent Quartet Statement

Not Reflective of Tense, Serious Nature of Discussion