Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Plenary

50^th Meeting (AM)

GENERAL ASSEMBLY WELCOMES DECLARATION OF SOUTH AMERICA AS

ZONE OF PEACE AND COOPERATION

Support Also Expressed for Continuation of United Nations

Guatemala Mission as Assembly Considers Situation in Central America

DELIVERING SADAT MEMORIAL LECTURE, SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES PALESTINIANS, ISRAELIS

TO EMULATE LATE EGYPTIAN LEADER’S COURAGE ‘BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE’

Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s Anwar Sadat Memorial Lecture at the University of Maryland, 13 November 2002:

Thank you, Mrs. Sadat and dear friends,

SECRETARY-GENERAL APPEALS FOR ADDITIONAL RESOURCES TO SUPPORT

POST-CONFLICT PEACE-BUILDING IN SIERRA LEONE

Following is the message of Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the Consultative Group Meeting for Sierra Leone, delivered by Hédi Annabi, Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, Paris, 13 November:

SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES TRADE MINISTERS TO PROPOSE –- ‘WITHOUT DELAY’ -- LONG-TERM

SOLUTION TO PROBLEM OF DELIVERING AFFORDABLE MEDICINES TO WORLD'S POOR

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

‘WORLD HAS RARELY NEEDED THE UN AS MUCH AS IT DOES TODAY’, SECRETARY-GENERAL

TELLS GUESTS AT VISIONARIES AWARDS DINNER

Following are remarks by Secretary-General Kofi Annan at the United Nations Association of the United States of America (UNA-USA) International Visionaries Awards Dinner, Washington, D.C., 12 November:

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Third Committee

47^th and 48^th Meetings (AM & PM)

BURDEN OF HOSTING REFUGEES, CHRONIC UNHCR BUDGET SHORTAGES HIGHLIGHTED,

AS THIRD COMMITTEE CONTINUES DISCUSSION ON REFUGEES

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Second Committee

IMPLEMENTATION OF MILLENNIUM GOALS WOULD BE BEST NEWS IN CENTURIES FOR POOR

COUNTRIES, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL'S EXECUTIVE COORDINATOR

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Second Committee

33^rd Meeting (AM)

UNDER-SECRETARY-GENERAL STRESSES NEED TO LINK TARGETS, TIMETABLES

OF JOHANNESBURG WITH COUNTRY-SPECIFIC PROGRAMMES

Make Agenda 21 Happen, International Community

Urged in Second Committee Debate on Environment, Sustainable Development

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Plenary

49^th Meeting (PM)

DELEGATES SAY MOBILIZATION OF TRANSBOUNDARY, TRANSNATIONAL CAPACITIES

CRUCIAL IN WAR AGAINST HIV/AIDS

SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES FORMER LATIN AMERICAN PRESIDENTS TO ‘HELP

STRENGTHEN THE DEMOCRATIC AGENDA’ THROUGHOUT CONTINENT

Following are the remarks of Secretary-General Kofi Annan at his meeting with former Latin American Presidents, New York, 12 November:

It is a great pleasure to welcome you to United Nations Headquarters -– or should I say, welcome back to the United Nations.