Press Release

Sixtieth General Assembly

Plenary

1^st Meeting (PM)

EXPECTATIONS HIGH FOR ANTICIPATED REFORMS TO ORGANIZATION, GENERAL ASSEMBLY

PRESIDENT JAN ELIASSON SAYS AT OPENING OF SIXTIETH SESSION

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan arrived in London on Sunday, 4 September, to attend the Replenishment Meeting of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.

SECRETARY-GENERAL PRAISES CLOSE COOPERATION BETWEEN UN, SOUTH-EAST ASIA

ON TSUNAMI, HIV/AIDS, DEVELOPMENT, IN NEW YORK ADDRESS

Following is UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s address to the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN)-United Nations Summit in New York, 13 September:

UN GLOBAL ROUND TABLE RECOMMENDS WAYS TO UTILIZE

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FOR DEVELOPMENT

Security Council

5260^th Meeting (AM)

SECURITY COUNCIL EXTENDS INTERNATIONAL SECURITY FORCE IN AFGHANISTAN

UNTIL MID-OCTOBER 2006, UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTING RESOLUTION 1623 (2005)

Fifty-ninth General Assembly

Plenary

117^th Meeting (Night)

MEMBER STATES, GEARING UP FOR 60^th ANNIVERSARY SESSION, ADOPT MEASURES

TO STRENGTHEN, REVITALIZE GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Decide to Defer over 50 Agenda Items to Forthcoming Session

SECRETARY-GENERAL PRAISES POLITICAL COURAGE OF PRIME MINISTER SHARON

IN ISRAELI WITHDRAWAL FROM GAZA

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN REMARKS TO ANNUAL HOLY FAMILY CHURCH SERVICE, CITES NEED

TO STRENGTHEN UN, ‘THE INDISPENSABLE COMMON HOUSE OF OUR HUMAN FAMILY’

Following are UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s remarks at the Holy Family Church in New York, 12 September:

ACHIEVEMENT OF MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS REQUIRES CONSERVATION,

SUSTAINABLE USE OF BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY

(Reissued as received.)

UNITED NATIONS TO HOLD SYMPOSIUM ON SPACE SYSTEMS

FOR PROTECTING, RESTORING WATER RESOURCES

(Reissued as received.)