SECRETARY-GENERAL OFFERS DEEP CONDOLENCES TO FAMILIES, GOVERNMENTS

FOLLOWING CRASH OF UN MISSION HELICOPTER IN SIERRA LEONE

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

israel’s gaza wthdraWAl could be bridge towards resuming meaningful

peace process, says Secretary-General to capetown meeting

Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s statement to the United Nations African Meeting in Support of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, delivered by Peter Hansen, Commissioner-General, United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), in Cape Town, 29 June:

UNEP RECOMMENDS GLOBAL ACTION TO HALT DECLINE OF COLD-WATER CORAL REEFS

(Reissued as received.)

OKINAWA, 28 June (UNEP) -- Representatives from governments, non-governmental organizations, intergovernmental organizations and the world’s leading coral reef experts are meeting starting today in Okinawa, Japan, for a week of discussions and activities on protecting the world’s precious coral reefs.

Secretary-General urges full implementation of landmark

un treaty against transnational organized crime

Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message to the first session of the Conference of the Parties to the Untied Nations Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime delivered by Antonio Maria Costa, Director-General, United Nations Office at Vienna, in Vienna, 28 June:

PRESS STATEMENT BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT

ON HANDOVER OF SOVEREIGNTY TO IRAQ

Following is the press statement on Iraqi sovereignty delivered today by Security Council President Lauro L. Baja (Philippines):

SECRETARY-GENERAL welcomes IRAQ ‘back into family

of independent and sovereign nations’

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

Secretary-General’s Advisory Boardon Disarmament Matters to meet

in Geneva, 30 June - 2 July 2004, in forty-third session

CAPACITY-BUILDING WORKSHOP ON UN PROGRAMME OF ACTION

ON ILLICIT TRADE IN SMALL ARMS HELD IN TUNIS

REPUBLIC OF KOREA DELEGATE URGES GENERAL ASSEMBLY AD HOC COMMITTEE

TO CONCLUDE DRAFT TREATIES ON INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM

Humanity Deserves No Less, He Stresses

In Wake of Korean National’s Beheading by Terrorists in Iraq

un office reports disruption of humanitarian aid in democratic republic of congo