The Secretary-General arrived in Rome from Geneva in the evening of Tuesday, 4 April, to hold meetings with Italian officials and then to chair the United Nations Administrative Committee on Coordination (ACC) which brings together, twice a year, the heads of all United Nations funds, programmes and agencies.
Members Hear Statements by Iraq, Bulgaria
The Special Committee on the Charter of the United Nations and on Strengthening the Role of the Organization needed to examine the difficulties that had prevented it from making progress in recent years, its Chairman said this morning, as the Committee began its annual two-week session.
NEW YORK, 10 April (DESA) -- The Youth Unit of the Division for Social Policy and Development, Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), presented the United Nations World Youth Awards to 14 African youth organizations today at the opening of the first session of the African Youth Forum at the United Nations Conference Centre in Addis-Ababa.
(Received from a UN Information Officer.)
Following are the remarks of Secretary-General Kofi Annan upon receiving honorary citizenship of the city of Florence, Italy, on 9 April:
It was not possible to be optimistic about an early ceasefire between the warring factions in Afghanistan, John Renninger, Officer-in-Charge of the Asia and Pacific Division of the Department of Political Affairs, told the Security Council this morning, as it held an open briefing on the situation in that country.
