'EXCITING BUT CHALLENGING JOURNEY' LIES AHEAD, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL

ON FOURTH ANNIVERSARY OF ADOPTION OF ICC STATUTE

SECRETARY-GENERAL WEIGHS SUCCESSES, FAILURES OF DECADE OF HUMANITARIAN ACTION

Following is the message of Secretary-General Kofi Annan to participants in the panel discussion on “Challenges for Humanitarian Assistance in the Last Decade and into the Future.”  The message was delivered on the Secretary-General’s behalf by Kenzo Oshima, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator:

INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SEMINAR ON MIDDLE EAST PEACE DISCUSSES

LESSONS LEARNED IN PAST DECADE

Six Speakers Address Second Session

PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY MUST ‘DE-LEGITIMIZE TERRORISM’; ISRAEL MUST STOP

SETTLEMENT ACTIVITY IN PALESTINIAN TERRITORY, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL

WORLD SUMMIT ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT A ‘TEST FOR MULTILATERALISM

AND THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY’, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL

Following are Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s remarks to the "Friends of the Chair" of the Preparatory Committee of the World Summit on Sustainable Development:

DPI INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SEMINAR ON PEACE IN MIDDLE EAST OPENS IN COPENHAGEN

Speakers Call for Vigorous Third-Party Mediation and ‘End-Game’ Plan

CONCERNED AT RECENT DEVELOPMENTS BETWEEN MOROCCO, SPAIN, SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES

PARTIES TO SEEK PEACEFUL RESOLUTION

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

Fifty-sixth General Assembly

Plenary

108^th Meeting (AM)

MAIN COMMITTEE CHAIRMEN, VICE PRESIDENTS ELECTED

FOR FIFTY-SEVENTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY SESSION

Economic and Social Council

2002 Substantive Session

27^th and 28^th Meetings (AM & PM)

HUMAN RIGHTS HIGH COMMISSIONER SAYS ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL

HAS SIGNIFICANT ROLE IN ADVANCING RIGHTS OF MOST VULNERABLE

Security Council

4575^th Meeting (AM)

RESPONSE TO ANGOLA’S SERIOUS HUMANITARIAN CRISIS MUST BE SHARED BY INTERNATIONAL

COMMUNITY, ANGOLAN AUTHORITIES, UNDER-SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS COUNCIL