SECRETARY-GENERAL CONDEMNS MOMBASA TERRORIST ATTACKS

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

MULTIFACETED, INTEGRATED, PROACTIVE DISASTER MANAGEMENT URGENTLY NEEDED,

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN MESSAGE TO BUDAPEST MEETING

Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message to the high-level meeting on Sustainable Flood Management, delivered on his behalf by Klaus Toepfer, Executive Director, United Nations Environment Programme, in Budapest,

30 November to 1 December:

SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN MESSAGE FOR FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF OTTAWA CONVENTION,

LOOKS TO TOTAL ELIMINATION OF LANDMINES, CONTINUED CARE FOR VICTIMS

This is the text of a message by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the ceremony in Ottawa marking the fifth anniversary of the opening for signature of the Ottawa Convention banning anti-personnel landmines (delivered on his behalf by Martin Barber, Chief, United Nations Mine Action Service):

PRESIDENT OF UNITED NATIONS SECURITY COUNCIL AND CHAIRMAN

OF MILITARY STAFF COMMITTEE IN DECEMBER

In accordance with the principle of alphabetical rotation, the following are the President of the United Nations Security Council and the Chairman of the Military Staff Committee for December:

Security Council

                                                                  SG/SM/8534

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN DECEMBER 2002

The following is a tentative list of United Nations meetings scheduled to be held in December, including major meetings of intergovernmental organizations related to the United Nations:

Meetings continued from previous month:

3 September-20 December      Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions, New York

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Plenary

63^rd Meeting (PM)

ASSEMBLY IS TOLD WORLD COMMUNITY MUST WORK HARDER FOR ISRAELI

WITHDRAWAL FROM TERRITORIES, CREATION OF PALESTINIAN STATE

Debate Begins on ‘Question of Palestine’; Israeli Delegate Says

End of Terrorism Must be Price of Political Process, Not Its Reward

                                                                  UNEP/129

SECRETARY-GENERAL REQUESTS COMMENTS FROM CYPRUS LEADERS ON SUGGESTED

BASIS FOR AGREEMENT ON COMPREHENSIVE SETTLEMENT

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

The Secretary-General yesterday sent letters to the Greek Cypriot leader, H.E. Mr. Glafcos Clerides, and the Turkish Cypriot leader, H.E. Mr. Rauf Denktash.