Biographical Note

NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF AUSTRALIA PRESENTS CREDENTIALS

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

John Dauth, the new Permanent Representative of Australia to the United Nations, presented his credentials to Secretary-General Kofi Annan today. 

                Following is the text of a statement made today by Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

We are all traumatized by this terrible tragedy.  We do not know yet how many people have been killed or injured, but inevitably the number will be high.  Our first thoughts and prayers must be for them and for their families.  I wish to express my profound condolences to them, and to the people and Government of the United States.

PRESS STATEMENT BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT

ON TERRORIST ATTACKS IN UNITED STATES

Following is the text of today’s press statement on the terrorist attacks in the United States by the President of the Security Council, Jean-David Levitte (France):

Secretary-General Kofi Annan and Mrs. Nane Annan arrived in Sweden from Africa in the morning of Wednesday, 5 September.

SECRETARY-GENERAL FOCUSES ON AIDS, POVERTY, PROTECTION OF ENVIRONMENT

IN SPEECH TO NGOS

Following is the text of a statement made by Secretary-General Kofi Annan in New York this morning to the fifty-fourth Department of Public Information/Non-Governmental Organization (DPI/NGO) Conference:

MESSAGE FROM SECRETARY-GENERAL ON INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PEACE

11 September 2001

Following is the text of a message from Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the occasion of International Day Of Peace (11 September):

The International Day of Peace is a day on which we try to imagine a world quite different from the one we know.

We try to picture those who wage war laying down their arms and talking out their differences.

Security Council

4368^th Meeting (AM)

SECURITY COUNCIL WELCOMES SUCCESSFUL EAST TIMOR ELECTIONS

The Security Council this morning warmly welcomed the successful staging of the elections for East Timor’s first Constituent Assembly on 30 August.

Security Council

4367^th Meeting (AM)

SECURITY COUNCIL HEARS DETAILS OF FREE AND FAIR ELECTIONS IN EAST TIMOR

Today in Dili, the Independent Electoral Commission announced the final certified results for the election held on 30 August and declared that the criteria for a free and fair election had been met, Jean-Marie Guéhenno, Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, told the Security Council this morning.

Security Council

4366^th Meeting (AM)

COUNCIL TERMINATES PROHIBITION ON ARMS SALES TO YUGOSLAVIA

Unanimously Adopts Resolution 1367

The Security Council this morning terminated the prohibitions preventing the sale or supply of arms and related material to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. It did this by unanimously adopting resolution 1367.

                                                      Note No. 5678

10 September 2001

DPI TRAINING PROGRAMME FOR BROADCASTERS, JOURNALISTS