Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Third Committee

47^th and 48^th Meetings (AM & PM)

BURDEN OF HOSTING REFUGEES, CHRONIC UNHCR BUDGET SHORTAGES HIGHLIGHTED,

AS THIRD COMMITTEE CONTINUES DISCUSSION ON REFUGEES

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Second Committee

33^rd Meeting (AM)

UNDER-SECRETARY-GENERAL STRESSES NEED TO LINK TARGETS, TIMETABLES

OF JOHANNESBURG WITH COUNTRY-SPECIFIC PROGRAMMES

Make Agenda 21 Happen, International Community

Urged in Second Committee Debate on Environment, Sustainable Development

DELIVERING SADAT MEMORIAL LECTURE, SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES PALESTINIANS, ISRAELIS

TO EMULATE LATE EGYPTIAN LEADER’S COURAGE ‘BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE’

Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s Anwar Sadat Memorial Lecture at the University of Maryland, 13 November 2002:

Thank you, Mrs. Sadat and dear friends,

SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES TRADE MINISTERS TO PROPOSE –- ‘WITHOUT DELAY’ -- LONG-TERM

SOLUTION TO PROBLEM OF DELIVERING AFFORDABLE MEDICINES TO WORLD'S POOR

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL APPEALS FOR ADDITIONAL RESOURCES TO SUPPORT

POST-CONFLICT PEACE-BUILDING IN SIERRA LEONE

Following is the message of Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the Consultative Group Meeting for Sierra Leone, delivered by Hédi Annabi, Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, Paris, 13 November:

SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES FORMER LATIN AMERICAN PRESIDENTS TO ‘HELP

STRENGTHEN THE DEMOCRATIC AGENDA’ THROUGHOUT CONTINENT

Following are the remarks of Secretary-General Kofi Annan at his meeting with former Latin American Presidents, New York, 12 November:

It is a great pleasure to welcome you to United Nations Headquarters -– or should I say, welcome back to the United Nations.

TRANSCRIPT OF PRESS CONFERENCE BY SECRETARY-GENERAL KOFI ANNAN

AT UN HEADQUARTERS, 12 NOVEMBER 2002

The Secretary-General:  I would like to announce to you this morning the appointment of Catherine Bertini as the new Under-Secretary-General for Management, succeeding Joseph Connor, who will be leaving us after eight years of outstanding service as head of the Department of Management.

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Fifth Committee

25^th Meeting (AM)

FIFTH COMMITTEE CONSIDERS POST STRUCTURE OF SECRETARIAT

The focus of attention of the Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) this morning was on the post structure of the Secretariat as the Committee concluded its consideration of a series of reports related to the programme budget for the biennium 2002-2003.

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Second Committee

32^nd Meeting (PM)

AMID REVITALIZING PROCESS, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL MOVING AHEAD IN EFFORTS

TO UNITE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY, SECOND COMMITTEE TOLD

SEMINAR ON POLICY AWARENESS IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, 15 NOVEMBER

The third and final high-level United Nations seminar for 2002 on “Policy Awareness and Security Issues on Information Technology” is to be held this week.