INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT ‘INSTRUMENT OF JUSTICE, NOT EXPEDIENCY’,

SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS TO BEIJING LAW SYMPOSIUM

Following is the message of Secretary-GeneralKofi Annan to the Symposium on the Comparative Study of International Criminal Law and the Rome Statute in Beijing, 15 October:

SECRETARY-GENERAL PAYS TRIBUTE TO CONTRIBUTION OF POLISH PEACEKEEPERS,

IN MESSAGE TO 30TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION IN WARSAW

Following is the message of Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the thirtieth anniversary of Poland’s first contribution to United Nations peacekeeping, as delivered today in Warsaw by Colin Glennie, United Nations Resident Coordinator in Poland:

SOME 38 COUNTRIES WORLDWIDE FACING ‘SERIOUS FOOD SHORTAGES’, FAO REPORTS

ROME, 15 October (FAO) -- As of August 2003, the number of countries facing serious food shortages throughout the world stands at 38, with 23 in Africa, eight in Asia, five in Latin America and two in Europe.  In many of these countries, food shortages are being compounded by the effect of the HIV/AIDS pandemic on food production, marketing and transport.

SECRETARY-GENERAL CONDEMNS DEADLY GAZA ATTACK ON DIPLOMATS

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

Fifty-eighth General Assembly

Second Committee

Briefing on “Prospects for Economic Growth

and Future of Development Cooperation”

WORLD NEEDS UNITED NATIONS ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL SECURITY COUNCIL,

SAYS NOBEL LAUREATE IN KEYNOTE ADDRESS TO SECOND COMMITTEE

Professor Calls for Increased

United Nations Role in International Financial Issues

Fifty-eighth General Assembly

Second Committee

11^th Meeting (PM)

SHORTFALL IN DEVELOPMENT AID, DEBT RELIEF THWARTING ECONOMIC GROWTH

IN DEVELOPING WORLD, DELEGATES TELL SECOND COMMITTEE

Huge Subsidies to Producers in Developed Countries Also to Blame, Speakers Say

Fifty-eighth General Assembly

Third Committee

11^th & 12^th Meetings (AM & PM)

GENDER EQUALITY, VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN PRESENT CONTINUING CHALLENGES,

THIRD COMMITTEE TOLD, AS DEBATE OPENS ON WOMEN’S ISSUES

Fifty-eighth General Assembly

First Committee

8^th Meeting (PM)

THREAT POSED BY NON-COMPLIANCE WITH NON-PROLIFERATION REGIME

FOCUS OF DEBATE IN DISARMAMENT COMMITTEE

The threat posed by non-compliance with the global nuclear non-proliferation regime and the reasons underlying recent, well-publicized cases dominated debate this afternoon in the First Committee (Disarmament and International Security).

Fifty-eighth General Assembly

Fourth Committee

7^th Meeting (AM)

FOURTH COMMITTEE REASSERTS SELF-DETERMINATION AS RIGHT

FOR PEOPLES IN NON-SELF-GOVERNING TERRITORIES

Text Says No Other Principle in Decolonization; Action Also Taken

After Debate on Work of United Nations Committee on Effects of Atomic Radiation

SECRETARY-GENERAL HAILS INAUGURATION OF NATIONAL TRANSITIONAL

GOVERNMENT AS ‘TURNING POINT’ FOR LIBERIA

Following is the message of Secretary-GeneralKofi Annan on the inauguration of the National Transitional Government of Liberia, as delivered today in Monrovia by Jacques Paul Klein, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Liberia: