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GA/SHC/3782
12/10/2004
Press Release
GA/SHC/3782

Fifty-ninth General Assembly

Third Committee

9th & 10th Meetings (AM & PM)


THIRD COMMITTEE BEGINS DISCUSSION OF WOMEN’S ADVANCEMENT, CONCLUDES


REVIEW OF CRIME PREVENTION, INTERNATIONAL DRUG CONTROL


Power, Protection of Law Critical to Efforts

Of Those Championing Women’s Equality, Committee Told


(Issued on 13 October 2004)

SG/SM/9537
12/10/2004
Press Release
SG/SM/9537

Audit bodies have crucial role helping countries reach anti-poverty goals,


says Secretary-General in message to Budapest meeting

 


Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message to the Eighteenth Congress of the International Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions (INTOSAI), delivered by Dileep Nair, Under-Secretary-General for Internal Oversight Services, in Budapest, 12 October:

SG/SM/9531-AFG/265
12/10/2004
Press Release
SG/SM/9531
AFG/265

democracy firmly taking root, Secretary-General tells afghan people in message


following their country’s first presidential election

 


The following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s address to the people of Afghanistan on the occasion of their first presidential election as delivered by Special Representative to the Secretary-General Jean Arnault today, 12 October 2004:

SG/SM/9533
12/10/2004
Press Release
SG/SM/9533

Secretary-General saddened by death of Major-General Lalit Mohan Tewari

 

of India, former UN force Commander in Lebanon


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


The Secretary-General is saddened to learn of the sudden passing of Major-General Lalit Mohan Tewari (India).