Security Council

4374^th Meeting* (PM)

SECURITY COUNCIL EXTENDS SIERRA LEONE MISSION UNTIL 31 MARCH 2002,

UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTING RESOLUTION 1370 (2001)

The Security Council this afternoon extended the mandate of the United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL) for six months starting 30 September 2001.

MULTIMEDIA WEB SITE LAUNCHED IN COMMEMORATION OF FORTIETH ANNIVERSARY

OF DAG HAMMARSKJÖLD’S DEATH

On 18 September 1961, Dag Hammarskjöld, the second Secretary-General of the United Nations, died in a plane crash in Ndola, Northern Rhodesia, with 15 others.

Committee on Inalienable Rights

of the Palestinian People

258^th Meeting (AM)

PALESTINIAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE ELECTS NEW CHAIRMAN,

REVIEWS RECENT MIDEAST DEVELOPMENTS

The Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People this morning elected by acclamation Papa Louis Fall (Senegal) as its Chairman for a one-year term.  Mr. Fall replaced Acting Chairman Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla (Cuba).

SECRETARY-GENERAL SADDENED BY ASSASSINATION OF KEY AFGHAN LEADER,

SAYS ACT OF TERRORISM FURTHER COMPLICATES EFFORTS TO END CONFLICT

NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT PROGRESS EVEN MORE IMPORTANT AFTER TERRORIST ATTACK

ON UNITED STATES SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL TO ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY MEETING

Following is the message of Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the forty-fifth General Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), delivered by Steinar Bjornsson, Deputy-Director, United Nations Office at Vienna, on 17 September:

PRESS STATEMENT ON FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA BY PRESIDENT OF SECURITY COUNCIL

Following is today's statement by the President of the Security Council, Jean-David Levitte (France) on the Council's meeting with Mr. Nebojsa Covic, Deputy Prime Minister of Serbia (Federal Republic of Yugoslavia):

ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY GENERAL CONFERENCE BEGINS ANNUAL SESSION

VIENNA, 17 September 2001 (IAEA) -- Ministers and high-level governmental representatives from the International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) 132 member States are meeting in Vienna this week for the forty-fifth regular session of the General Conference.  The Conference opened today, 17 September, and is scheduled to conclude 21 September 2001 at the Austria Centre Vienna.

CHAIRMAN OF COMMITTEE ON RELATIONS WITH HOST COUNTRY EXPRESSES OUTRAGE

AT LAST WEEK’S TERRORIST ATTACKS

Following is the text of today’s press statement by Sotirios Zacheos, Chairman of the Committee on Relations with the Host Country:

Round-up

CONFERENCE ON DISARMAMENT HEARS STATEMENTS STRONGLY CONDEMNING

TERRORIST ATTACKS ON UNITED STATES

Adopts Annual Report and Concludes 2001 Session

(Reissued as received.)

SECRETARY-GENERAL HOPES COMMITMENT BY PRESIDENT ARAFAT

WILL LEAD TO CESSATION OF VIOLENCE

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