Press Release

SECRETARY-GENERAL HAILS WINNERS OF ENVIRONMENT PRIZE FOR COURAGE,

CREATIVITY, WILLINGNESS TO FORGE PARTNERSHIPS

Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s remarks at the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Sasakawa Environment Prize ceremony yesterday, 19 November:

SECRETARY-GENERAL UNDERLINES IMPORTANCE OF INTERNAL TRANSPARENCY, INTEGRITY

IN MESSAGE TO TRIPARTITE OVERSIGHT COORDINATION MEETING

Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message to the Sixth United Nations Tripartite Oversight Coordination Meeting delivered by Sergei Ordzhonikidze, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, today, 20 November:

GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT MARKS AFRICA INDUSTRIALIZATION DAY

WITH CALL FOR REGION’S INTEGRATION INTO GLOBAL ECONOMY

Following is the text of the message by Julian Robert Hunte (Saint Lucia), President of the General Assembly, on the occasion of Africa Industrialization Day, 20 November:

UNCTAD REPORT SAYS E-COMMERCE STRONG IN DEVELOPED COUNTRIES, WITH POSITIVE IMPACT;

OTHERS URGED TO SHOW POLITICAL WILL FOR TECHNICAL PROGRESS

(Reissued as received.)

UNCTAD REPORT INDICATES NEW INTERNET APPLICATIONS

GAINING GROUND IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

(Reissued as received.)

SECRETARY-GENERAL’S STATEMENT TO SECURITY COUNCIL MEETING

ON CONCLUSION OF UN OIL-FOR-FOOD PROGRAMME FOR IRAQ

This is the text of the statement by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the Security Council this afternoon on the conclusion of the “oil-for-food” programme for Iraq:

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SECURITY COUNCIL STRESSES NEED FOR CONTINUITY IN IRAQ RECONSTRUCTION,

WITH CONCLUSION OF ‘OIL-FOR-FOOD’ PROGRAMME ON 21 NOVEMBER

Secretary-General Expresses Pride in Orderly Handover

SECRETARY-GENERAL STRONGLY CONDEMNS DEADLY ISTANBUL BOMBINGS

Following is a statement issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

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SECURITY COUNCIL CONDEMNS BOMB ATTACKS IN ISTANBUL,

UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTING RESOLUTION 1516 (2003)

The Security Council this afternoon condemned “in the strongest terms” the bomb attacks of 15 and 20 November 2003 in Istanbul, Turkey.

LANDMARK DECISION ADOPTED BY ESCAP TO EXTEND ASIAN HIGHWAY NETWORK

BANGKOK, 20 November (UN Information Services) -- Delegates from 32 members of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) have brought the vision of an efficient, reliable regional transport network to a reality by adopting the Intergovernmental Agreement on the Asian Highway Network.