GOVERNING COUNCIL OF UNITED NATIONS COMPENSATION COMMISSION

APPROVES AWARDS OF $315 MILLION

(Reissued as received.)

FORTY-NINTH SESSION OF UNITED NATIONS COMPENSATION COMMISSION GOVERNING

COUNCIL TO BE HELD FROM 16 TO 18 SEPTEMBER

(Reissued as received.)

GENEVA, 12 September (UN Information Service) -- The Governing Council of the United Nations Compensation Commission will hold its forty-ninth session from 16 to 18 September 2003 under the Presidency of Ambassador Michael Steiner (Germany).

FOREIGN MINISTERS OF SECURITY COUNCIL PERMANENT MEMBERS, SECRETARY-GENERAL

TO MEET ON IRAQ 13 SEPTEMBER IN GENEVA

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

‘WE PRAY FOR THE RECOVERY OF THE INJURED, AND WE MOURN THOSE WHO HAVE DIED’,

SAYS DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL AT MEMORIAL CEREMONY IN GENEVA

Following is the statement delivered by Louise Fréchette, Deputy Secretary-General, at the Palais des Nations on the occasion of the ceremony for the victims of the attack of the United Nations Office in Baghdad:

SECRETARY-GENERAL STRONGLY CONDEMNS TERRORIST ATTACK IN NAJAF, IRAQ

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

ADDRESS BY DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF UNOG AT MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR THOSE KILLED

IN ATTACK ON UNITED NATIONS IN BAGHDAD

GENEVA, 29 August (UN Information Service) -- Following is the address by Sergei Ordzhonikidze, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, at the memorial service held today at the Palais des Nations for those killed and wounded in the attack on United Nations headquarters in Baghdad on 19 August 2003:

FREE, PEACEFUL IRAQ WILL IN TIME BE FITTING MEMORIAL TO LOST COLLEAGUES

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN MESSAGE TO OSLO SERVICE

Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message for the memorial service honouring victims of the bombing of the United Nations mission in Iraq, delivered by Terje Roed-Larsen, Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, in Oslo, 28 August:

ORGANIZED CRIME TO BE GROWING PROBLEM IN IRAQ,

UNODC FACT-FINDING MISSION REPORTS

(Reissued as received.)

VIENNA, 27 August (UN Information Service) -- A four-member team from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) recently returned from a two-week fact-finding mission in Iraq.

FAREWELL FOR SERGIO VIEIRA DE MELLO

GENEVA, 26 August (UN Information Service) -- The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights is hosting a celebration of Sergio Vieira de Mello’s life on Thursday 28 August at 19:00 hrs at the Geneva International Conference Centre at 15 Rue Varembé.  Friends, colleagues and acquaintances are warmly invited to attend this event which is open to all. 

PRESS STATEMENT ON IRAQ/KUWAIT BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT

Following is the statement to the press on Iraq/Kuwait delivered today by Security Council President Fayssal Mekdad (Syria):

Members of the Security Council heard a briefing from Yuli Vorontsov, the High-Level Coordinator, on the thirteenth report of the Secretary-General in accordance with paragraph 14 of Security Council resolution 1284 (1999).