Following is the text of the Executive Summary and Conclusion of the High- level Meeting on the Global Compact, which was held on 26 July at United Nations Headquarters:
NEW YORK, 20 July -- United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan will bring together leaders from global business, international labour and civil society organizations who will pledge their commitment to universally accepted human rights, labour and environmental principles.
NEW YORK, 20 July -- United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan will bring together leaders from global business, international labour and civil society organizations who will pledge their commitment to universally accepted human rights, labour and environmental principles.
Secretary-General Kofi Annan will welcome Baby 6 billion on 12 October, the day the United Nations has chosen, based on expert projections, to mark this unprecedented population milestone. At a ceremony in Sarajevo's Kosovo Hospital, the Secretary-General will greet a newborn baby symbolically designated as the 6 billionth world citizen.
Kofi Annan, of Ghana, is the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations. The first Secretary-General to be elected from the ranks of United Nations staff, he began his term on 1 January 1997.
The humanitarian community faces a major challenge today from the increase in the number of natural disasters, and by a recent upsurge in armed conflict, according to Secretary-General Kofi Annan in his 1999 report on the work of the Organization, which is being released today.
