SECRETARY-GENERAL CALLS HUMAN TRAFFICKING ‘ONE OF THE GREATEST

HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS’ OF TODAY

Following is the message of Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the International Summit on Human Trafficking, Child Abuse, Labour and Slavery, to be delivered by Antonio Maria Costa, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Vienna and Executive Director of the Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention, Abuja, Nigeria, 2-4 August 2002:

SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES ISRAEL NOT TO TAKE ACTIONS

'INCONSISTENT WITH INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW'

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

PRESS STATEMENT ON BURUNDI, CONFLICT PREVENTION IN AFRICA

BY PRESIDENT OF SECURITY COUNCIL

Following is yesterday's statement to the press on informal consultations in the Security Council on Burundi and conflict prevention in Africa by Jeremy Greenstock (United Kingdom), President of the Security Council:

HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS CONCERNED BY SCHEDULED EXECUTION

OF TWO JUVENILE OFFENDERS IN UNITED STATES

GENEVA, 1 August (UN Information Service) -- United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson has expressed her deep concern at the scheduled executions in Texas of T.J. Jones and Toronto Patterson, respectively, on 8 and 28 August 2002 for crimes they committed when they were 17 years old.

AHEAD OF WORLD SUMMIT ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, WILDLIFE ATLAS UNDERLINES

VITAL ROLE OF ECOSYSTEMS IN REDUCING POVERTY, DELIVERING PROSPERITY

CHALLENGE OF TERRORISM FOR INTERNATIONAL SECURITY, DISARMAMENT:

GLOBAL AND REGIONAL IMPACT ASIA-PACIFIC REGIONAL MEETING

AFGHANISTAN:  LOCUST-CONTROL CAMPAIGN SUCCESSFULLY CONCLUDED

SPECIAL ENVOY FOR MYANMAR TO REVISIT YANGON, 2 - 6 AUGUST

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

Razali Ismail, the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Myanmar, will return to Yangon from 2 to 6 August 2002 to help facilitate the national reconciliation process in Myanmar.

FOLLOWING HEBREW UNIVERSITY BOMB ATTACK, SECRETARY-GENERAL REITERATES

CONDEMNATION OF ‘ALL SUCH ATTACKS’ AGAINST CIVILIANS

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

The Secretary-General is appalled by today's bomb attack at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in which seven people were killed and more than

PRESS STATEMENT ON DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO-RWANDA AGREEMENT,

MIDDLE EAST BY PRESIDENT OF SECURITY COUNCIL

Following is yesterday's statement to the press on the Democratic Republic of the Congo-Rwanda agreement and the Middle East by Jeremy Greenstock (United Kingdom), President of the Security Council:

Democratic Republic of Congo-Rwanda Agreement