Press Release

UNITED NATIONS OVERSIGHT OFFICE REPORTS POTENTIAL SAVINGS

OF $37 MILLION IDENTIFIED IN WORK OF ORGANIZATION

Annual Survey for 12 Months from 1 July 2002 Describes

Impact on Accountability, Efficiency and Quality of Management

Background Release

HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE TO HOLD 79TH SESSION IN GENEVA FROM 20 OCTOBER TO 7 NOVEMBER

Experts to Review Situation in Philippines,

Russian Federation, Equatorial Guinea, Latvia, Sri Lanka

(Reissued as received.)

Security Council

4845^th Meeting (AM)

SECURITY COUNCIL CALLS ON COUNTER-TERRORISM COMMITTEE TO HELP

INCREASE MEANS AVAILABLE TO STATES TO COMBAT TERRORISM

Committee Chair Briefs Council,

Fifty-eighth General Assembly

First Committee

10^th Meeting (PM)

DISARMAMENT ‘DOUBLE STANDARDS’, SMALL ARMS THREAT AMONG ISSUES RAISED,

AS FIRST COMMITTEE CONCLUDES GENERAL DEBATE

LIBERIA:  HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE SCALING UP

Security Council

4843^rd Meeting (AM)

‘REMARKABLE’ GAINS MADE IN TIMOR-LESTE SINCE UN SUPPORT MISSION ESTABLISHED,

BUT UN PRESENCE NEEDED BEYOND END OF MANDATE, SECURITY COUNCIL TOLD

SECRETARY-GENERAL CALLS SPACE FLIGHT A STEP FORWARD FOR HUMANKIND

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

Fifty-eighth General Assembly

First Committee

9^th Meeting (PM)

NON-PROLIFERATION FRAMEWORK BESET BY CRISIS OF IDENTITY, RELEVANCE,

EFFECTIVENESS, DISARMAMENT COMMITTEE TOLD

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: