DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS REPORTS OF ‘INTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUP’

HELPFUL IN ‘GROUNDING’ UNITED NATIONS DECISION-MAKING

Following is the text of remarks by Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette at a meeting at United Nations Headquarters in New York today of the International Crisis Group:

Fifty-eighth General Assembly

Plenary

25^th & 26^th Meetings (AM & PM)

UNPRECEDENTED POLITICAL WILL REQUIRED TO REORIENT UNITED NATIONS AND ACHIEVE

DEVELOPMENT TARGETS, SPEAKERS TELL GENERAL ASSEMBLY

CORRECTION

In Press Release GA/10168, issued on 7 October, the statement by Syria on page 19 should read:

SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES WORLD BODY TO CONTINUE SERVING HUMANITY, CONFRONT GLOBAL

THREATS, CONSIDER FURTHER CHANGE, IN UNITED NATIONS DAY MESSAGE

Following is the message of Secretary-General Kofi Annan on United Nations Day, 24 October:

These are difficult times, for the world and for the United Nations.

Fifty-eighth General Assembly

Second Committee

6^th & 7^th Meetings (AM & PM)

UNDER-SECRETARY-GENERAL LAUDS EFFECTIVENESS OF MICROCREDIT AS SECOND COMMITTEE

TAKES UP IMPLEMENTATION OF DECADE FOR ERADICATION OF POVERTY

Millions, Particularly Women, Lifted out of Extreme Poverty, Delegates Told

Security Council

4838^th Meeting (PM)

OFFICIALS OF TRIBUNALS FOR RWANDA, FORMER YUGOSLAVIA BRIEF SECURITY COUNCIL;

DESCRIBE STRATEGIES FOR CONCLUDING TRIALS BY 2008 DEADLINE

Fifty-eighth General Assembly

Sixth Committee

4^th Meeting (AM)

LEGAL COMMITTEE DISCUSSES PROBLEM OF SANCTIONS AFFECTING ‘THIRD STATES’,

POTENTIAL PROVISION OF ASSISTANCE

Report Received from Special Group on Charter; Observer

Status in General Assembly Recommended for Four Organizations

AS DIFFICULT TIMES STRAIN GLOBAL SYSTEM, SECRETARY-GENERAL LOOKS TO UN ASSOCIATION

OF UNITED STATES TO ‘DO WHAT YOU DO BEST’ –- TELL UN STORY

Following are Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s remarks at a dinner hosted by the United Nations Association – USA and the Business Council for the United Nations in New York on 8 October:

Fifty-eighth General Assembly

Plenary

27^th Meeting (AM)

Fifty-eighth General Assembly

First Committee

5^th Meeting (AM)

NEW DISARMAMENT APPROACHES IMPERATIVE IN CHANGED POLITICAL CLIMATE

FIRST COMMITTEE TOLD, AS GENERAL DEBATE CONTINUES

DISPLACED PEOPLE CONTINUE TO ARRIVE IN TOTOTA, LIBERIA

NEW YORK, 9 October (Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs) -- On Tuesday, 7 October, an inter-agency mission visited Totota and Kakata in Liberia to examine the relocation of internally displaced persons in irregular shelters and assess new population movements into Totota.