Secretary-General says choice of South Africa for 2010 World Cup exciting day

for Africans and for ‘all speakers of the universal language of football’

Following are UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s remarks at the unveiling of the 2010 FIFA World Cup emblem in Berlin, 7 July:

Review Conference

on Illicit Small Arms Trade

13^th & 14^th Meetings (AM & PM)

UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE AIMED AT STRENGTHENING GLOBAL EFFORT AGAINST ILLICIT

SMALL ARMS TRADE ENDS WITHOUT AGREEMENT ON FINAL DOCUMENT

 

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL DISCUSSES SUSTAINED

 

ECONOMIC GROWTH FOR SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT

 

(Reissued as received)

China, Singapore, Sri Lanka sign UN Convention on Use of Electronic Communications

in International Contracts

 

PROVIDING FOR YOUNG PEOPLE MORAL OBLIGATION, COMPELLING ECONOMIC NECESSITY,

 

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN WORLD POPULATION DAY MESSAGE

 

Following is UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message on World Population Day, observed on 11 July:

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan arrived in Monrovia, Liberia, from Sierra Leone, on Monday evening, 3 July.

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan arrived in Banjul, the Gambia, on Friday afternoon, 30 June, to attend the annual African Union Summit.

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL HOLDS DIALOGUE WITH EXECUTIVE SECRETARIES

 

OF REGIONAL COMMISSIONS

 

(Reissued as received)

On Wednesday, 5 July, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan travelled from Monrovia in Liberia to Yamassoukro, Côte d’Ivoire.

Security Council

5482^nd Meeting (AM)

Successful Democratic Republic of Congo elections will mark beginning, not end,

of long process of recovery, Security Council told