Sotirios Zackheos, Permanent Representative of Cyprus to the United Nations, was this afternoon elected Chairman of the Fourth Committee (Special Political and Decolonization). He has previously chaired the Committee on Relations with the Host Country.
Raimundo Gonzalez, who was this afternoon elected Chairman of the First Committee (Disarmament and International Security) for the General Assembly's fifty-fourth session, is Director of Special Political Affairs (Disarmament and International Security) in Chile's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Following are the remarks of Secretary-General Kofi Annan upon ringing the Peace Bell at a Headquarters ceremony on 14 September:
Following are the remarks made by Secretary-General Kofi Annan at the Church of the Holy Family in New York on 13 September:
The following statement by Secretary-General Kofi Annan was issued by his Spokesman on 12 September:
The following was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today reappointed Carol Bellamy, the Executive Director of the United Nations Childrens Fund (UNICEF), to a second five-year term as head of the agency.
The Security Council this morning extended the mandate of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) for a further three months until 14 December.
