Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Plenary

13^th Meeting (PM)

PERVASIVE THREATS TO PEACE, DEVELOPMENT HIGHLIGHTED BY SPEAKERS

AS ASSEMBLY CONTINUES GENERAL DEBATE

As the General Assembly continued its general debate this afternoon, speakers highlighted the various obstacles threatening the achievement of peace and development, including foreign occupation, conflicts, trade imbalances and HIV/AIDS.

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Plenary

12^th Meeting (AM)

IRAQ’S ‘COURAGEOUS DECISION’ ON WEAPONS INSPECTORS MUST LEAD TO LIFTING

OF SANCTIONS, ALGERIA’S PRESIDENT TELLS GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Other Speakers Also Welcome Iraq’s Announcement,

SPURRED BY HIV/AIDS, TUBERCULOSIS CLAIMS LIVES OF 600,000 AFRICANS EACH YEAR,

DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS AT EXHIBIT LAUNCH

Following is the text of remarks by Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette at the launch of the World Health Organization exhibition "Poverty and Health:  Challenges to Development in Africa", on 16 September:

NEW SCIENTIFIC REPORT CONFIRMS SUCCESS OF MONTREAL PROTOCOL BUT WARNS OZONE LAYER

WILL REMAIN VULNERABLE FOR NEXT DECADE

16 September: International Ozone Day

Save Our Sky: Protect Yourself, Protect Ozone Layer

(Reissued as received.)

SECRETARY-GENERAL CONFIDENT THAT EAST TIMOR’S NEW INSTITUTIONS

WILL SAFEGUARD DEMOCRATIC INDEPENDENCE

The following message by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the UNITAR conference on UNTAET was delivered by Marcel Boisard, Executive Director, United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) in Tokyo today:

‘UN REMAINS STRONGLY COMMITTED’ TO ERADICATION

OF LANDMINE THREAT, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS

The following message by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the Fourth Meeting of the States Parties to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction, was delivered today in Geneva by Sergio Vieira de Mello, High Commissioner for Human Rights:

STRENGTHENING OF NUCLEAR NON-PROLIFERATION REGIME MORE CRITICAL THAN EVER,

SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS

Following is the message by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the Forty-Sixth General Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), delivered by Jayantha Dhanapala, Under-Secretary-General for Disarmament Affairs, in Vienna today:

SECRETARY-GENERAL CITES ‘SYMBIOTIC RELATIONSHIP’ BETWEEN GLOBAL GOALS ON POVERTY,

NEW PLAN FOR AFRICA’S DEVELOPMENT, IN STATEMENT TO GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Following is the statement of Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the meeting of the General Assembly devoted to the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) in New York on 16 September:

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES OPENING OF DIRECT TALKS

FOR SETTLEMENT OF SRI LANKAN CONFLICT

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

MINISTERS FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF SECURITY COUNCIL'S FIVE PERMANENT

MEMBERS, SECRETARY-GENERAL MEET, DISCUSS RANGE OF ISSUES

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