SECRETARY-GENERAL STRESSES VITAL ROLE OF GLOBAL PARTNERSHIPS IN MESSAGE

TO AFRICARE DINNER HONOURING BILL AND MELINDA GATES

Following is the message to be delivered this evening by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the 2003 Africare Bishop Walker Dinner in Washington, D.C.:

Fifty-eighth General Assembly

Third Committee

7^th Meeting (PM)

THIRD COMMITTEE FOCUSES ON CORRUPTION, ORGANIZED CRIME, AS DEBATE BEGINS

ON ILLICIT DRUGS, CRIMINAL JUSTICE ISSUES

UNODC Executive Director Highlights Use of Modern Technology

In Money Laundering, Large-Scale Fraud, Attacks on Computer Systems

SECRETARY-GENERAL CONDEMNS LATEST TERRORIST INCIDENTS IN IRAQ,

REMAINS ‘GREATLY CONCERNED’ AT SECURITY SITUATION

This is the text of a statement today by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

Committee on the Inalienable Rights

of the Palestinian People

274^th Meeting (AM)

BUILDING OF SEPARATION WALL, CONTINUING SETTLEMENT ACTIVITIES HARMFUL

TO CHANCES OF ACHIEVING PEACE, PALESTINE RIGHTS COMMITTEE TOLD

Palestine Observer Says Recent Quartet Statement

Not Reflective of Tense, Serious Nature of Discussion

Committee on Relations

with Host Country

218^th Meeting (PM)

UNITED STATES DELEGATE SAYS DIPLOMATIC PARKING PROGRAMME IN NEW YORK SUCCESSFUL,

WITH FAR FEWER TICKETS ISSUED

UN Host Country Committee Hears Complaints of Continuing

Problems; Action Promised if Missions Report to Authorities

PRESS STATEMENT BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT ON LIBERIA

Following is the text of a press statement on Liberia delivered today by the President of the Security Council, John Negroponte (United States):

LIBERIA:  NON-ESSENTIAL MISSIONS ON HOLD

New York, 8 October (Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs) -- Although the situation in Monrovia has stabilized, there are reports of fighting between Government troops and rebel factions in Nimba and Bong Mines in north/central Liberia.  Agencies are exercising caution in operating outside of Monrovia, and non-essential missions are on hold, for now. 

PRESS STATEMENT BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT ON BURUNDI

This is the text of a statement on Burundi delivered today by the President of the Security Council, John Negroponte (United States):

Security Council members welcome the signing on 8 October of the Pretoria Protocol on political, defence and security power-sharing between the Transitional Government of Burundi and the CNDD-FDD.

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: