UNITED STATES, PALESTINIAN VISIONS OF MIDDLE EAST PEACE HAVE MANY COMMON POINTS,

AFRICAN MEETING ON PALESTINIAN RIGHTS TOLD

Participants Address Key Issues, Including

Suicide Bombings, Military Actions, Occupation of Territory

(Received from a UN Information Officer.)

AFRICAN NGO WORKSHOP ON PALESTINE QUESTION MEETS IN MOROCCO

RABAT, Morocco, 26 June (UN Information Service) –- The Chairman of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, Papa Luis Fall, in an address to the United Nations Workshop of African non-governmental organizations (NGOs) on the question of Palestine this morning, called for more intensified efforts by civil society organizations in support of the Palestinian people.

Special Committee on

Decolonization

10^th Meeting (AM)

DECOLONIZATION COMMITTEE APPROVES THREE TEXTS ON MILITARY INSTALLATIONS,

NUCLEAR WEAPONS, ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES IN TERRITORIES

Concluding Current Session, Committee Also Approves Mission to Tokelau

Biographical Note

NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA PRESENTS CREDENTIALS

(Based on information received from the Protocol and Liaison Service.)

Robert Guba Aisi, the new Permanent Representative of Papua New Guinea to the United Nations, presented his credentials to Secretary-General Kofi Annan on 25 June.

On Friday, 21 June, Secretary-General Kofi Annan travelled to Illinois where, that evening, he delivered the keynote address at Northwestern University’s 144^th commencement ceremonies in Evanston, just outside of Chicago.

SECRETARY-GENERAL EXPRESSES HEARTFELT CONDOLENCES TO TANZANIAN PEOPLE,

GOVERNMENT AFTER YESTERDAY’S TRAIN DISASTER

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES ‘WIDEST POSSIBLE USE’ OF COOPERATIVE EXPERIENCE

IN SERVICE OF GLOBAL COMMUNITY

Following is the message of Secretary-General Kofi Annanon the occasion of the International Day of Cooperatives, 6 July:

SECRETARY-GENERAL OUTLINES COMMON CONCERNS FOR UN, ISLAMIC CONFERENCE

IN MESSAGE TO FOREIGN MINISTERS MEETING IN KHARTOUM

Following is the message of Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the twenty-ninth session of the Islamic Conference of Foreign Ministers in Khartoum, 25-27 June, delivered on his behalf, by Assistant Secretary-General Ibrahima Fall:

‘WE MUST NEVER FORGET’ CHERNOBYL TRAGEDY’S HUMAN DIMENSION, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL

TO LAUNCH OF WEB SITE ON CATASTROPHE’S LONG-TERM CONSEQUENCES

SALUTING INTERNATIONAL DAY IN SUPPORT OF TORTURE VICTIMS, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS

TERMS OF CONVENTION REMAIN ‘TRUE AND RELEVANT’ AS EVER

Following is the message of Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, 26 June: