UNEP and Iraqi Environment Ministry to Assess Key Polluted Sites

(Reissued as received.)

NAIROBI/GENEVA, 14 September (UNEP) -- Environmental “hot spots” in Iraq are to be investigated as part of a long-term plan to clean up the country after well over a decade of instability and conflict, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) announced today.

SECURITY COUNCIL EXTENDS ETHIOPIA-ERITREA MISSION UNTIL 15 MARCH 2005,

UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTING RESOLUTION 1560 (2004)

Concerned at the lack of progress in the border demarcation between Ethiopia and Eritrea, the Security Council this morning approved a six-month mandate extension of the United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE).

International Conference

in Support of the Palestinian People

AM Meeting

Civil Society Conference Presented with Action Plan to Support

Palestinian Rights Through International Law

 

Also Discusses Role of Civil Society

In Alleviating Suffering, Promoting End of Israeli Occupation

‘HERE TODAY WE ARE ONE’, A SINGLE HUMAN FAMILY UNITED, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL

IN REMARKS AT ANNUAL INTERFAITH SERVICE

Following are Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s remarks at the annual Interfaith Service of Commitment to the Work of the United Nations at St. Bartholomew’s Church, New York, 14 September:

‘Decentralization:  The new dimension of peace, democracy and development’

to be addressed at Florence meeting 17-21 September

‘BLUE FLAG’ FLYING IN IRAQ, BUT LIGHT FOOTPRINT UNAVOIDABLE

IN CURRENT SECURITY SITUATION, SECURITY COUNCIL TOLD

Secretary-General’s Special Representative Briefs Council,

Says UN Mission Committed to Assisting Fair, Credible Electoral Process

COMMITTEE ON RIGHTS OF CHILDREN OPENS THIRTY-SEVENTH SESSION

Hears Statement by Chief of Treaty and Commission Branch of Office

Of High Commissioner for Human Rights; Adopts Agenda, Programme of Work

(Reissued as received.)

UN EXPERT DEPLORES UZBEKISTAN’S LACK OF COOPERATION

 

WITH UN HUMAN RIGHTS MECHANISMS

 

(Reissued as received.)

GENEVA, 13 September (UN Information Service) -- The Special Rapporteur on torture of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights made the following statement today:

IN MESSAGE TO CIVIL SOCIETY CONFERENCE, SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES FREEZE ON ISRAELI

SETTLEMENTS, RESTRUCTURING OF PALESTINIAN SECURITY TO CONFRONT TERROR GROUPS

Following is the message by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the United Nations International Conference of Civil Society in Support of the Palestinian People, delivered today by Kieran Prendergast, Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs:

Secretary-General deeply saddened by loss of life,

 

injuries, destruction from hurricane Ivan

 

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