Press Release

SECRETARY-GENERAL STRONGLY CONDEMNS RIYADH TERRORIST ATTACK

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

The Secretary-General is horrified by last night's attack against a residential compound in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, that reportedly killed at least 10 innocent people and injured many others.  He condemns this terrorist act in the strongest possible terms.

Fifty-eighth General Assembly

Fifth Committee

18^th Meeting (AM)

MORE STREAMLINED, FLEXIBLE BUDGETARY PROCESS NEEDED,

SAY SPEAKERS IN FIFTH COMMITTEE DEBATE

SECRETARY-GENERAL CITES LATIN AMERICAN, CARIBBEAN EXPERIENCE

TO HIGHLIGHT IMPORTANCE OF UN REFORM AT SANTIAGO ROUND TABLE

Following is the text of remarks by the Secretary-General at a round table on “Renewal of the United Nations and the Global Situation” on Friday, 7 November:

HEAD OF UN HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS OFFICE VISITS NORTHERN UGANDA,

SAYS ‘DEEPLY SHOCKED’ BY ‘WAR AGAINST CHILDREN’

SECRETARY-GENERAL, CALLING GALAPAGOS SHOWCASE OF INTERDEPENDENCE,

WARNS AGAINST COSTLY INACTION IN FACE OF THREAT TO BIODIVERSITY

     Following is the text of a video message taped by Secretary-General Kofi Annan at the Charles Darwin Foundation, Galapagos National Park, Ecuador, yesterday:

SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN VISIT TO HISTORIC GUAYAQUIL, ECUADOR,

SAYS CITIES CAN BE MODELS OF DEMOCRACY, DIVERSITY

Following is the text of remarks by Secretary-General Kofi Annan upon arrival in Guayaquil, Ecuador, on Friday 7 November:

Secretary-General Kofi Annan departed New York for Chile in the evening of Tuesday, 4 November, and arrived the following morning in Santiago, on the first leg of a four-nation visit to Latin America.

Fifty-eighth General Assembly

Second Committee

Panel Discussion on “Globalization”

IN SECOND COMMITTEE PANEL DISCUSSION, TOP ECONOMIST CALLS FOR MORE SENSIBLE,

MODEST, HUMANE APPROACH TO GLOBALIZATION

COMMITTEE AGAINST TORTURE HEARS FROM SECRETARY-GENERAL’S

REPRESENTATIVE AT OPENING OF THIRTY-FIRST SESSION

(Reissued as received.)

GENEVA, 10 November -- The Committee against Torture opened this morning its thirty-first session by hearing an address from Jane Connors, a Representative of the Secretary-General, and adopting its agenda.

Fifty-eighth General Assembly

Second Committee

31^st Meeting (PM)

ISRAEL STILL DESTROYING OCCUPIED TERRITORIES, SECOND COMMITTEE

DELEGATES SAY AT CONCLUSION OF DEBATE ON ARAB SOVEREIGNTY