SG/SM/8533

DAY OF PALESTINIAN SOLIDARITY `A DAY OF MOURNING

AND A DAY OF GRIEF’, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL

Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s statement on International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, delivered on his behalf by S. Iqbal Riza, Under-Secretary-General and Chef de Cabinet, New York, 29 November:

Committee on the Inalienable Rights

of the Palestinian People

268^th Meeting (AM)

SOLIDARITY DAY WITH PALESTINIANS ‘A DAY OF MOURNING AND A DAY OF GRIEF’

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL, AS HEADQUARTERS OBSERVES INTERNATIONAL DAY

Speakers Call for International Action to Halt Israeli Aggression;

Stress Independent Palestinian State Only Guarantee of Israeli Security

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):

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Plenary

62^nd Meeting (AM)

STRENGTHENED, MORE EFFICIENT ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL CITED,

AS GENERAL ASSEMBLY TAKES UP COUNCIL'S 2002 REPORT

The Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) was strengthening its role and making its work more efficient, its President, Ivan Šimonović (Croatia), told the General Assembly this morning, as it discussed the Council’s report for 2002.

MARKING HUMAN RIGHTS DAY, SECRETARY-GENERAL CALLS FOR VISION

TO BRING ABOUT NEW EQUILIBRIUM IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Globalization, Terrorism, Universality of Human Rights

Part of Shift in Interaction between States, Peoples, He Says

Following is the text of the message issued by Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the occasion of Human Rights Day, 10 December:

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.