Press Release

Following is the text of the lecture by Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Global Ethics, entitled “Do We Still Have Universal Values?”, delivered today at Tübingen University, Germany:  

Let me start by thanking Professor Küng –- not only for that very kind introduction, but also for inviting me here to give this lecture.  I was deeply touched when, eighteen months ago in Berlin, he handed me a note asking me to do this as a birthday gift for him, at any time after his 75^th birthday on 19 March 2003.

12/12/2003

Press Release SG/SM/9074 ECO/48

SECRETARY-GENERAL EXPRESSES GRATITUDE FOR GERMAN SUPPORT OF GLOBAL COMPACT; CALLS

ON BUSINESS, NGOS, GOVERNMENTS TO TAKE STAND FOR INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION

Following is the text of the toast by Secretary-General Kofi Annan at the Global Compact dinner hosted by German Chancellor Schroeder in Berlin on

11 December:

12/12/2003

Press Release AFR/795 REC/137

PAN-AFRICAN IMPLEMENTATION AND PARTNERSHIP CONFERENCE

ON WATER ENDS WITH ACTION PLAN FOR CONTINENT

(Reissued as received.)

12/12/2003

Press Release PI/1546

World Summit on the Information Society

3^rd Plenary Meeting (PM)

WSIS:  PROMOTION OF ICTS CAN HELP WORLD ATTAIN MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS

Participants Stress ICTs Must Be Harnessed to Ensure

Sustainable Development, Inclusive Information Society Based on Human Rights

(Reissued as received.)

12/12/2003

Press Release SC/7950*

Security Council

4879^th Meeting** (AM)

NARROW WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITY EXISTS TO PUT MIDDLE EAST PEACE PROCESS

BACK ON TRACK, SPECIAL COORDINATOR TELLS SECURITY COUNCIL

12/12/2003

Press Release PAL/1972

                                                            PAL/1972*

12/12/2003

Press Release SG/SM/9075 DEV/2450

ANTI-POVERTY GOALS CANNOT BE MET WITHOUT TRUE GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIP,

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN MESSAGE TO MARRAKESH CONFERENCE

Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message to the High-Level Conference on South-South Cooperation in Marrakesh, 16 December:

12/12/2003

Press Release PI/1551

UN ICT TASK FORCE PROPOSED AS FORUM FOR DISCUSSING INTERNET GOVERNANCE

(Received from a UN Information Officer.)

GENEVA, 12 December -- Talal Abu-Ghazaleh, the Vice-Chairman of the United Nations Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Task Force, today told the closing meeting of the World Summit on the Information Society that the Task Force should host the debate on Internet governance.

12/12/2003

Press Release PI/1552 SAG/204

GLOBAL INFORMATION SOCIETY SUMMIT SPURS SOLIDARITY,

ALLIANCES BUT HARD WORK, ACTION AHEAD

GENEVA, 12 December 2003 (ITU) -- The World Summit on the Information Society closed on an optimistic note of consensus and commitment, but Yoshio Utsumi, Secretary-General of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and Summit cautioned that the meeting was only the start of a long and complex process.

12/12/2003

Press Release IK/411

GOVERNING COUNCIL OF UNITED NATIONS COMPENSATION COMMISSION

TO HOLD FIFTIETH SESSION FROM 16 TO 18 DECEMBER

(Reissued as received.)

GENEVA, 12 December -- The Governing Council of the United Nations Compensation Commission will hold its fiftieth session from 16 to 18 December 2003 under the Presidency of Ambassador Michael Steiner (Germany).