Press Release

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);

Fifty-sixth General Assembly                                GA/SPD/228

Fifty-sixth General Assembly

Fourth Committee

19^th Meeting (AM)

MEDIA COVERAGE OF TERRORIST ATTACKS, UN RADIO PROJECT AMONG ISSUES DISCUSSED

AS FOURTH COMMITTEE CONTINUES CONSIDERATION OF INFORMATION QUESTIONS

GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT, AT LAUNCH OF ICT TASK FORCE,

STRESSES NEED TO NARROW DIGITAL DIVIDE

Following is the speech by General-Assembly President Han Seung-soo (Republic of Korea) at today’s Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Task Force launching ceremony:

I am pleased and honoured to be present here today at the inauguration of the ICT Task Force.

Fifty-sixth General Assembly

Third Committee

46^th Meeting (PM)

ZAMBIA CALLS ON DONOR COUNTRIES TO INCREASE FUNDING FOR UNHCR,

AS THIRD COMMITTEE CONTINUES DEBATE ON REFUGEES