NEW SCIENTIFIC REPORT CONFIRMS SUCCESS OF MONTREAL PROTOCOL BUT WARNS OZONE LAYER

WILL REMAIN VULNERABLE FOR NEXT DECADE

16 September: International Ozone Day

Save Our Sky: Protect Yourself, Protect Ozone Layer

(Reissued as received.)

STRENGTHENING OF NUCLEAR NON-PROLIFERATION REGIME MORE CRITICAL THAN EVER,

SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS

Following is the message by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the Forty-Sixth General Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), delivered by Jayantha Dhanapala, Under-Secretary-General for Disarmament Affairs, in Vienna today:

‘HUMAN SECURITY’ DEPENDS NOT ONLY ON PEACE OF ARMS BUT ON SOCIO-ECONOMIC WELL-BEING,

GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT SAYS

Following is the text of an address by General Assembly President Jan Kavan (Czech Republic) on 15 September (United Nations Sunday) at the Cathedral of

Saint John the Divine in New York:

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES OPENING OF DIRECT TALKS

FOR SETTLEMENT OF SRI LANKAN CONFLICT

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

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GENERAL ASSEMBLY WELCOMES NEW PARTNERSHIP FOR AFRICA’S DEVELOPMENT

AS SERIOUS COMMITMENT TO ADDRESSING CONTINENT’S ASPIRATIONS

Declaration on Development Partnership Adopted Unanimously

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ASSEMBLY HOLDS HIGH-LEVEL PLENARY MEETING TO CONSIDER SUPPORT

FOR NEW PARTNERSHIP FOR AFRICA’S DEVELOPMENT

Speaker’s Include Secretary-General, Presidents

of Nigeria, South Africa, Algeria, Senegal, Ghana, Gabon

‘UN REMAINS STRONGLY COMMITTED’ TO ERADICATION

OF LANDMINE THREAT, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS

The following message by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the Fourth Meeting of the States Parties to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction, was delivered today in Geneva by Sergio Vieira de Mello, High Commissioner for Human Rights:

                                                            GA/SM/291

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INEQUITABLE DISTRIBUTION OF GLOBALIZATION’S BENEFITS IS FERTILE SOIL

FOR EXTREMISTS, SAY SPEAKERS IN ASSEMBLY’S GENERAL DEBATE

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AFRICA’S DEVELOPMENT, MIDDLE EAST, UN REFORM AMONG ISSUES

DISCUSSED, AS GENERAL ASSEMBLY CONTINUES DEBATE