DEMOCRACY CANNOT BE IMPOSED FROM ABROAD, BUT INTERNATIONAL EFFORTS CAN ENCOURAGE, ASSIST SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL TO MONGOLIA CONFERENCE

Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message to the Fifth International Conference of New or Restored Democracies, delivered by Danilo Türk, Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs, in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, 10-12 September:

IN MESSAGE TO WTO CONFERENCE, SECRETARY-GENERAL CALLS ON TRADE MINISTERS

TO ADDRESS NEEDS OF WORLD’S POOREST

Following is the message by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the Fifth Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization in Cancun, delivered today by Rubens Ricupero, Secretary-General, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development:

The rhetoric of global trade is filled with promise.

SECURITY COUNCIL COMMITTEE ADDS TWENTY INDIVIDUALS

TO AL-QAIDA SECTION OF ITS CONSOLIDATED LIST

The Al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Committee on 9 September 2003 added the names of the following twenty individuals to its consolidated list (Al-Qaida section):

*Name: 1: MOHAMAD NASIR 2: ABAS 3: na 4: na

Note to Correspondents

ARRANGEMENTS FOR MEETING OF P5 AT FOREIGN MINISTERS’ LEVEL

(Reissued as received.)

DPI/NGO Annual Conference

AM & PM Meetings

FIFTY-SIXTH DPI/NGO CONFERENCE CONCLUDES AT HEADQUARTERS;

DRAWS RECORD 2,000 CIVIL SOCIETY REPRESENTATIVES

International Criminal Court

Assembly of States Parties

Second Session

3^rd Meeting (AM)

ESTABLISHMENT OF BAR CONSIDERED BY STATES PARTIES

TO INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT

The second session of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, taking place from 8 to 12 September in New York, this morning considered the establishment of an International Criminal Bar.

QUESTIONS OF INTERPRETATION AND APPLICATION OF 1971 MONTREAL CONVENTION

ARISING FROM AERIAL INCIDENT AT LOCKERBIE

Cases of Libyan Arab Jamahiriya v. United Kingdom, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya v.

United States of America Removed from Court’s List at Joint Request of Parties

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Background Release

COMMITTEE ON RIGHTS OF CHILD TO HOLD THIRTY-FOURTH SESSION

IN GENEVA FROM 15 SEPTEMBER TO 3 OCTOBER

Reports from San Marino, Canada, New Zealand, Pakistan,

Madagascar, Brunei Darussalam, Singapore, Bangladesh, Georgia to Be Reviewed

(Reissued as received.)

Round-Up of Session

CONFERENCE ON DISARMAMENT CONCLUDES 2003 SESSION

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GENEVA, 9 September (UN Information Service) -- The Conference on Disarmament, the world’s sole multilateral forum for disarmament negotiations, today concluded the third and last part of its 2003 session after adopting its annual report.

SECRETARY-GENERAL CONDEMNS TERROR ATTACKS IN ISRAEL

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

The Secretary-General condemns today’s two terror attacks by suicide bombers near Tel Aviv and in Jerusalem, in which at least 12 people were killed and many others injured.  He conveys his deepest condolences to the families of the victims and to the Government of Israel.