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SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN MESSAGE TO ANNUAL DIPLOMACY LECTURE, PRAISES SENATOR

JESSE HELMS FOR FOSTERING STRONGER RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN US, UN

Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s video message to the first Helms International Diplomacy Lecture in Washington, D.C., 15 March:

ENTIRE SOCIETIES NEED TO GET INVOLVED IN COUNTERING DRUG ABUSE, UN COMMISSION

ON NARCOTIC DRUGS TOLD, AS IT BEGINS 47TH SESSION

TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF RWANDA GENOCIDE SHOULD PROMPT REMORSE, RESOLVE

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL TO OTTAWA SYMPOSIUM

Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message to the Symposium on the Media and the Rwanda Genocide at Carleton University School of Journalism and Communication in Ottawa, 13 March:

THE AMERICAS REAFFIRM REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH CONSENSUS

United States in Lone Dissent

(Reissued as received.)

SANTIAGO (CHILE), 11 March (UNFPA) -- By a nearly unanimous decision, countries in Latin America and the Caribbean today reaffirmed support for the population and reproductive health action plan adopted at Cairo 10 years ago.

Committee on the Inalienable Rights                        

Of the Palestinian People                                  

277^th Meeting (AM)

ARRANGEMENTS BEING MADE TO READ CONTENTS OF RWANDA ‘BLACK BOX’,

FOUND AT UN HEADQUARTERS

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

SIXTIETH SESSION OF COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS TO BE

HELD IN GENEVA, 15 MARCH – 23 APRIL

VIENNA, 12 March (UN Information Service) -- The sixtieth session of the Commission of Human Rights will be held in Geneva from 15 March to 23 April 2004.  On the agenda is also the Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, and the follow-up to the World Conference on Human Rights, held in Vienna in 1993.

‘INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY MUST JOIN FORCES AGAINST TERRORISM’, SAYS EXECUTIVE

DIRECTOR OF UNODC IN STATEMENT ON TERRORIST ATTACKS IN SPAIN

(Reissued as received.)

VIENNA, 12 March (UN Information Service) -- Following is a statement by Antonio Maria Costa, Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) on the occasion of terrorist attacks in Madrid, Spain, on 11 March:

ROAD MAP REMAINS ‘MOST PRACTICAL WAY’ TO ACHIEVE ASPIRATIONS OF ISRAELIS,

PALESTINIANS, SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS PALESTINIAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE

Following is today’s statement by Secretary-General Kofi Annan at the opening of the 2004 session of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People:

VIENNA MEETING CALLS FOR ENHANCED EFFORTS AGAINST TERRORISM

UN, OSCE Agree to Expand Joint Counter-Terrorism Activities

(Reissued as received.)