GENUINE DEMOCRACY AT HOME, EFFECTIVE MULTILATERALISM ABROAD SUREST PATHS

TO PEACE, DEVELOPMENT SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN SANTIAGO ADDRESS

Following is the text of Secretary-GeneralKofi Annan’s address to Chilean Parliamentarians in Santiago, 6 November:

UNITED NATIONS HUMAN RIGHTS EXPERT WELCOMES CANADIAN INITIATIVE

ON ACCESS TO LOW-COST DRUGS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

(Reissued as received.)

GENEVA, 7 November (UN Information Service) -- Canada has taken an important step towards improving the right to health in developing countries by introducing draft legislation to make it easier for poor countries to import generic, lower-cost drugs, a United Nations human rights expert said today.

SECRETARY-GENERAL CONGRATULATES CANADA FOR RATIFICATION

OF UN LAW OF SEA CONVENTION

The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

Fifty-eighth General Assembly

General Committee

4^th Meeting (AM)

GENERAL COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS DEFERRAL OF QUESTION OF COMORIAN ISLAND

OF MAYOTTE TO GENERAL ASSEMBLY’S FIFTY-NINTH SESSION

Background Release

COMMITTEE AGAINST TORTURE TO HOLD THIRTY-FIRST SESSION

AT PALAIS DES NATIONS FROM 10 TO 21 NOVEMBER

Experts Scheduled to Consider Reports

From Colombia, Morocco, Latvia, Lithuania, Yemen and Cameroon

(Reissued as received.)

FOLLOWING ARE SUMMARIES OF STATEMENTS MADE TO TODAY’S SECOND COMMITTEE (ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL).  A COMPLETE SUMMARY OF TODAY’S MEETING WILL APPEAR AFTER THE MEETING’S CONCLUSION AS PRESS RELEASE GA/EF/3061.

Background

Fifty-eighth General Assembly

Second Committee

27^th & 28^th Meetings (AM & PM)

DELEGATES IN SECOND COMMITTEE UNDERSCORE NEED TO BOOST FUNDING FOR UN-HABITAT,

IMPLEMENT PROGRAMME FOR LEAST DEVELOPED COUNTRIES

Committee Tackles Two Topics, Concludes International Trade and Development Debate

Disarmament Commission

2003 Organizational Session

257^th Meeting (AM)

DISARMAMENT COMMISSION HOLDS ORGANIZATIONAL SESSION;

WILL MEET AT HEADQUARTERS 5 - 23 APRIL 2004

The Disarmament Commission, in its 2003 organizational session held this morning, adopted the agenda for its 2004 substantive session, to be held in New York from 5 to 23 April, and elected its Bureau.

Fifty-eighth General Assembly

Fourth Committee

20^th Meeting (AM)

SPEAKERS CONDEMN ISRAEL’S HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATION IN OCCUPIED TERRITORIES, CALL

FOR INTERNATIONAL DISENGAGEMENT FORCE, AS FOURTH COMMITTEE CONTINUES DEBATE

Fifty-eighth General Assembly

Sixth Committee

23^rd Meeting (AM)

LEGAL COMMITTEE, ENDING SESSION, RECOMMENDS THAT GENERAL ASSEMBLY

DEFER FOR TWO YEARS CONSIDERATION OF HUMAN CLONING

Action on Pending Drafts Not Taken; Texts Approved on Effects of Sanctions

On Third States, Backlog of Two Publications, International Law Commission Report