UNITED NATIONS GIVES $11 MILLION FOR AFGHANISTAN DROUGHT

UN MOVES AID SOUTH OF LITANI IMMEDIATELY AFTER CESSATION OF HOSTILITIES

United Nations Force in Lebanon Reports on Status of Ceasefire

NAQOURA, 14 August (UNIFIL) -- The cessation of hostilities, in accordance with United Nations Security Council resolution 1701, came into effect at 0800 hours local time today.

Ad Hoc Committee on Convention

on Persons with Disabilities

1^st Meeting (AM)

Opening Eighth Session, Committee Negotiating convention on rights of disabled

persons expected to adopt completed text in two weeks

 

Humanitarian factsheet on lebanon

 

The following has been prepared by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA):

Political Developments

Secretary-General announces agreement on time

 

for cessation of hostilities in middle east

The following statement by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan was made in New York on 12 August:

Secretary-General increasingly alarmed at ongoing violence in sri lanka

 

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

The Secretary-General is increasingly alarmed at the ongoing violence in Sri Lanka.

SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN MESSAGE TO AIDS CONFERENCE, STRESSES IMPORTANCE

 

OF REDRESSING PAST FAILURES IN FIGHT AGAINST PANDEMIC

 

SEABED COUNCIL EXAMINES LEGAL, TECHNICAL COMMISSION REPORT

 

‘IT IS ABSOLUTELY VITAL THAT THE FIGHTING NOW STOP’, SECRETARY-GENERAL

TELLS SECURITY COUNCIL MEETING ON LEBANON

Following is the text of the statement by the UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the Security Council on 11 August: