Press Release

BEST WAY TO REMEMBER THOSE LOST IN WAR IS TO ‘REDEDICATE OURSELVES TO THE CAUSE

OF PEACE’, SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS WORLD VETERANS FEDERATION

Following is the message of Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the twenty-fourth General Assembly of the World Veterans Federation, to be held in Johannesburg, South Africa, on 1 December:

STATES PARTIES APPEAL FOR WIDER ADHERENCE TO AMENDED

PROTOCOL II ON PROHIBITION OF MINES

(Reissued as received.)

Round-up of Session

COMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS CONCLUDES THIRTY-FIRST SESSION

Issues Final Conclusions on Reports of Republic of Moldova,

Yemen, Guatemala, Russian Federation, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea

(Reissued as received.)

GROUP OF EXPERTS CONCLUDES NEGOTIATIONS ON A PROTOCOL ON EXPLOSIVE REMNANTS OF WAR

(Reissued as received.)

PEACE, END TO OCCUPATION, SECURITY FOR ISRAELIS ALL POSSIBLE, SECRETARY-GENERAL

SAYS ON INTERNATIONAL DAY OF SOLIDARITY WITH PALESTINIANS

Following is the message of Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the occasion of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, 29 November:

HUMANITARIAN EFFORTS MAKING HEADWAY IN LIBERIA

NEW YORK, 28 November (OCHA) -– Humanitarian efforts to reach people in need throughout Liberia continued this week, passing two milestones.  For the first time in 14 years, electricity was supplied to central Monrovia, and when a humanitarian flight landed in Voinjama, a distant border town, it marked the first time the airfield had been used in more than a decade.

SECRETARY-GENERAL’S REPORT SAYS ISRAEL NOT IN COMPLIANCE

WITH GENERALASSEMBLY RESOLUTION ON WEST BANK ‘BARRIER’

NEW YORK, 28 November -- The Secretary-General today released his report, requested by the General Assembly, on the Government of Israel’s compliance with the Assembly’s resolution A/ES - 10/13 of 21 October 2003, which demands that Israel stop and reverse construction of a barrier in the occupied Palestinian territory.

SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN MESSAGE TO NOBEL PEACE LAUREATES, URGES THEM

TO MAKE THEIR VOICES HEARD IN REVIEW OF GLOBAL SECURITY

Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message to the Fourth World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates, delivered by Shalini Dewan, Director, United Nations Information Centre, Rome, today, 28 November:

TREATY ON HAZARDOUS CHEMICALS, PESTICIDES TRADE TO BECOME LAW; ROTTERDAM

CONVENTION EFFECTIVE 24 FEBRUARY NEXT

(Reissued as received)

HUMANITARIAN PRINCIPLES OF CONVENTIONAL WEAPONS CONVENTION ‘TIMELESS’,

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL, AS STATES PARTIES BEGIN GENEVA MEETING

Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message to the meeting of the States Parties to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, delivered by Sergei Ordzhonikidze, Director-General, United Nations Office in Geneva, in Geneva, 27 November: