Press Release

ASIAN REGIONAL MEETING TO PREPARE FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT SUMMIT

BANGKOK, 21 November (UN Information Service) -- A high-level 3 day regional meeting will take place in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, next week -- from 27-29 November -- to articulate the regional position for the world summit on sustainable development to be held in Johannesburg, South Africa, next year.

On Saturday afternoon, 17 November, Secretary-General Kofi Annan left New York for an overnight trip to Ottawa, Canada, to talk to the members of the Finance and Development Committees of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund during a private dinner.

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‘WHEN IT COMES TO VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN, THERE ARE NO GROUNDS FOR TOLERANCE’,

SECRETARY-GENERAL CONGRATULATES HUEY JOHNSON FOR EFFORTS

TO ADVANCE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Following is the message of Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the UNEP Sasakawa Environment Prize Ceremony, delivered by Klaus Töpfer, Executive Director, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), New York, on 19 November:

GREECE AND FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA

MEET UNDER SECRETARY-GENERAL’S AUSPICES

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

LAUNCHING INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY (ICT) TASK FORCE,

SECRETARY-GENERAL APPEALS FOR SUPPORT FROM PRIVATE SECTOR

Following is the text of remarks by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to today’s launching of the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Task Force:

It gives me great pleasure to formally launch the United Nations Task Force on Information and Communications Technology.

‘THIS GENERATION OF AFGHAN CHILDREN MUST BECOME HARBINGERS OF PEACE’,

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL

Following is text of remarks by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the Security Council meeting today on children and armed conflict:

APPALLED BY MURDER OF FOUR JOURNALISTS IN AFGHANISTAN, SECRETARY-GENERAL

APPEALS TO ALL PARTIES TO COMPLY WITH INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW

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

PRESS STATEMENT ON AFGHANISTAN BY PRESIDENT OF SECURITY COUNCIL

Following is today’s press statement on Afghanistan by Mignonette Patricia Durrant (Jamaica), President of the Security Council:

Security Council

4422^nd and 4423^rd Meetings* (AM & PM)

SECURITY COUNCIL REQUESTS SECRETARY-GENERAL TO LIST PARTIES

TO ARMED CONFLICT THAT RECRUIT OR USE CHILDREN

Council Unanimously Adopts Resolution 1379 (2001);