DPI TO HOST INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SEMINAR IN COPENHAGEN ON QUESTION OF PEACE

STEP UP HIV/AIDS PREVENTION EFFORTS THAT WORK,

UNITED NATIONS POPULATION FUND URGES

New Report Highlights Fund’s Work to Protect Women and Young People

BARCELONA, 9 July (UNFPA) -— Much more must be done to enable young people and women to protect themselves against HIV infection, Suman Mehta, HIV/AIDS Coordinator for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), said at the

XIV International AIDS Conference here.

AT EIGHTH GENERAL MEETING OF UNITED NATIONS, ORGANIZATION OF ISLAMIC

CONFERENCE, SECRETARY-GENERAL OUTLINES COMMON GOALS

Following is the message of Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the General Meeting of the United Nations and the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), delivered on his behalf in Vienna on 9 July by Antonio Maria Costa, Director-General, United Nations Office at Vienna:

Fifty-sixth General Assembly

Plenary

107^th Meeting (AM)

GENERAL ASSEMBLY ADOPTS RESOLUTION ENDORSING MONTERREY CONSENSUS

Text Commits to Strengthen United Nations

In Revamp of International Financial System

‘GREAT STAMINA, IRON POLITICAL WILL’ REQUIRED TO BUILD SUCCESSFUL

AFRICAN UNION, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS

Following is the address, as delivered today, by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the 38^th Summit of the Organization of African Unity in Durban, South Africa:

INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION:  MANY QUESTIONS, FEW ANSWERS

Coordination Meeting on International Migration 11-12 July

PRESS STATEMENT ON IRAQ BY PRESIDENT OF SECURITY COUNCIL

Following is today’s press statement on Iraq by Jeremy Greenstock (United Kingdom), President of the Security Council:

Fifty-sixth General Assembly

Plenary

106^th Meeting (AM)

GENERAL ASSEMBLY ELECTS JAN KAVAN (CZECH REPUBLIC) PRESIDENT

OF FIFTY-SEVENTH SESSION

Adopts Resolution Amending Rules of Procedure

Governing Timing of Election of President, Other Assembly Officers

Fifty-sixth General Assembly

Plenary

106^th Meeting (AM)

GENERAL ASSEMBLY ELECTS JAN KAVAN (CZECH REPUBLIC) PRESIDENT

OF FIFTY-SEVENTH SESSION

Adopts Resolution Amending Rules of Procedure

Governing Timing of Election of President, Other Assembly Officers

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES REPATRIATION OF PRISONERS OF WAR TO MOROCCO,

CALLS FOR EARLY RELEASE OF REMAINING POWS

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