Press Release

SEABED COUNCIL BEGINS DETAILED EXAMINATION OF NEW CODE

FOR POLYMETALLIC SULPHIDES, COBALT-RICH CRUSTS

(Reissued as received.)

SEABED COUNCIL BEGINS SUBSTANTIVE DEBATE ON DRAFT RULES TO GOVERN

PROSPECTING OF NEWLY DISCOVERED RICH MINERALS

(Reissued as received.)

SECRETARY-GENERAL OUTRAGED BY BANGLADESH BOMB ATTACKS,

APPEALS FOR CALM IN FACE OF ‘BRAZEN AND COWARDLY ACTS’

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

NGOS CREATE INTERACTIVE WEBSITE TO DISCUSS 2005 SUMMIT

OF WORLD LEADERS AT UNITED NATIONS IN SEPTEMBER

NEARLY ONE MILLION FACE HUMANITARIAN CRISIS IN SOMALIA

LEAST DEVELOPED COUNTRIES IN AFRICA NEED URGENT GLOBAL ASSISTANCE,

AS FOOD INSECURITY DEEPENS

DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL INTRODUCES NEW UNDP ADMINISTRATOR

AT HEADQUARTERS PRESS CONFERENCE

Following is Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette’s introduction to the press of Kemal Derviş, Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), on 16 August:

SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN VIDEO MESSAGE, URGES YOUTH TO HOLD LEADERS

TO ANTI-POVERTY PLEDGES

Following is UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s video message for youth on the Millennium Development Goals, broadcast 15 August:

SECRETARY-GENERAL SADDENED BY DEATHS OF 17 SPANISH MILITARY IN AFGHANISTAN

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

INTERNATIONAL SEABED AUTHORITY COUNCIL DEFERS DETAILED DISCUSSION ON NEW REGULATIONS

Delegations to Examine Explanatory Notes from Legal and Technical Commission

(Reissued as received.)