Press Release

Security Council

4846^th Meeting (AM)

‘WE MEET AT A LOW POINT’, UNDER-SECRETARY-GENERAL PRENDERGAST

TELLS SECURITY COUNCIL IN LATEST BRIEFING ON MIDDLE EAST

International Community Must Reassert Its Role, Help Implement Road Map,

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES DECLARATION ON IRAN’S NUCLEAR PROGRAMME

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

Fifty-eighth General Assembly

Second Committee

Panel Discussion on “International

 Cooperation in Tax Matters”

MULTILATERAL APPROACH BEST WAY TO TACKLE CAPITAL FLIGHT, TAX EVASION,

MONEY-LAUNDERING, ATTORNEY TELLS SECOND COMMITTEE PANEL DISCUSSION

Delegates Hear Expert Views on International Cooperation in Tax Matters

UNITED STATES, UNITED NATIONS NEED EACH OTHER IN RELATIONSHIP OF 'PRODUCTIVE

INTERDEPENDENCE', SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS IN HEINZ FOUNDATION LECTURE

Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan's Heinz Foundation Distinguished Lecture at the University of Pittsburgh, 21 October 2003:

Thank you, Mr. Johnson [Bill Johnson, Chairman of Heinz], for those very kind words.

General Assembly Plenary

Tenth Emergency Special Session

22^nd Meeting (Night)

GENERAL ASSEMBLY, IN RESUMED EMERGENCY SESSION, DEMANDS ISRAEL STOP CONSTRUCTION

OF WALL, CALLS ON BOTH PARTIES TO FULFIL ROAD MAP OBLIGATIONS

Fifty-eighth General Assembly

Second Committee

15^th & 16^th Meeting (AM & PM)

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT EFFORTS OF SMALL ISLAND STATES HURT BY SHORTFALL IN

INTERNATIONAL ASSISTANCE, SPEAKERS TELL SECOND COMMITTEE

Some Projects Increase Vulnerability, Say Speakers, Urging New Consensus

UN UNDERTAKES FIRST HUMANITARIAN MISSION TO VOINJAMA, LIBERIA, IN FOUR YEARS

Fifty-eighth General Assembly

Third Committee

17^th & 18^th Meetings (AM & PM)

SITUATION OF WAR-AFFECTED CHILDREN REMAINS ‘GRAVE AND UNACCEPTABLE’,

SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE TELLS THIRD COMMITTEE

General Assembly Plenary

Tenth Emergency Special Session

21^st Meeting (PM)

SPEAKERS IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY EMERGENCY SESSION CONDEMN ISRAEL’S CONSTRUCTION

OF ‘SECURITY BARRIER’, EXPANSIONIST POLICIES

FAO ISSUES DESERT LOCUST ALERT

Mauritania, Niger, Sudan, Neighbouring Countries at Risk

ROME, 20 October (FAO) -- Desert locust outbreaks in Mauritania, the Niger and the Sudan may locally threaten crops, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said on Monday, issuing an alert to inform affected governments and the international donor community.