Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annans remarks at Headquarters today on the presentation of a gift -- The Peace Bell Garden -- from Japan:
Following is the text of the statement by Secretary-General Kofi Annan, delivered today at the opening of the general debate of the fifty-fifth session of the General Assembly:
The tumult and the shouting dies down - The captains and the kings depart -
(Reissued as received)
States parties to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, at their twentieth meeting, this morning elected nine members of the Human Rights Committee for four-year terms of office beginning on 1 January 2001.
The First Committee (Disarmament and International Security), in an organizational meeting this afternoon, elected two vice-chairmen and adopted its programme of work for the current session. The Chairman, Mya Than (Myanmar), was elected by acclamation on 5 September.
Hears from Foreign Ministers of Lebanon, Norway, Libya, United Kingdom, Germany, Syria, Ireland, Sweden, Bosnia and Herzegovina
GENEVA, 14 September -- The Conference on Disarmament this morning heard statements from China and the United States on the proposed US National Missile Defense System and the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty .
NEW YORK, 11 September (Department for Disarmament Affairs) -- The twelfth meeting of the Group of Interested States in Practical Disarmament Measures, took place on Monday, 11 September 2000.
