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THROUGH GLOBAL COMPACT, BUSINESS CAN JOIN WITH OTHERS TO FIND SOLUTION TO POVERTY,

SOCIAL INJUSTICE, SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS CEREMONY LAUNCHING COMPACT IN EGYPT

Following is the message by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the ceremony launching the Global Compact in Egypt, delivered by S. Iqbal Riza, Chef de Cabinet, Executive Office of the Secretary-General, in Cairo today:

Commission for Social Development                          

Forty-second Session                                       

Commission for Social Development                          

Forty-Second Session                                       

SECRETARY-GENERAL APPALLED AT ‘INDISCRIMINATE ACT OF TERRORISM’ IN MOSCOW SUBWAY

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

AD HOC COMMITTEE ON ELABORATION OF UN CONVENTION AGAINST TRANSNATIONAL

ORGANIZED CRIME CONCLUDES SESSION IN VIENNA

(Reissued as received.)

Security Council                                           

Economic and Social Council                                

2004 Organizational Session                                

4^th Meeting (PM)

SECRETARY-GENERAL ‘DEEPLY CONCERNED’ ABOUT INCREASING VIOLENCE IN HAITI

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

The Secretary-General has been closely following the situation in Haiti and is deeply concerned about the increasing violence.  Yesterday’s events in the city of Gonaives constitute a further escalation in the violence that is affecting the country.

LANDOWNERSHIP IN RUSSIAN FEDERATION:  HOWGOODLAND

ADMINISTRATION CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE

(Reissued as received.)

SECRETARY-GENERAL ‘PROFOUNDLY SADDENED’ AT LOSS OF LIFE

FROM EARTHQUAKE IN INDONESIA

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