Fifty-seventh General Assembly

First Committee

5^th Meeting (AM)

WORLD TURNS AWAY FROM ‘BALANCE OF TERROR’, BUT NOW FACES DRAMATICALLY

INCREASED TERRORIST THREAT, UNITED STATES TELLS FIRST COMMITTEE

SECRETARY GENERAL'S REMARKS AT MEMORIAL SERVICE

FOR FOUNDER OF 'SEEDS OF PEACE'

Following are the remarks of Secretary-General Kofi Annan at the memorial service for John Wallach, Founder of Seeds of Peace, New York, 3 October:

Many people dream of peace in the world.  Few devote their lives, hearts and minds to trying to make that dream come true.  John Wallach was one of those few.

ROLE OF UN IS ‘TO PLACE SAFETY AND WELFARE OF HUMAN BEINGS AT CENTRE

OF EVERYTHING THAT WE DO’, SECRETARY GENERAL SAYS

Following is the text of remarks by Secretary General Kofi Annan at the inauguration today of Lee Bollinger as President of Colombia University in New York:

It is always a special honour to visit this great university.  Any institution of learning is of importance to the United Nations, but Columbia is doubly so.

PRESS STATEMENT ON UNMOVIC, MITROVICA, UNIKOM BY PRESIDENT OF SECURITY COUNCIL

Following is today’s press statement on the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC), Mitrovica and the United Nations Iraq-Kuwait Observer Mission (UNIKOM) by the President of the Security Council, Martin Belinga-Eboutou (Cameroon):

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Sixth Committee

7^th Meeting (AM)

LEGAL COMMITTEE IS TOLD OBSERVANCE OF HUMANITARIAN LAW CRITICAL

IN ERA WHEN CIVILIANS ARE INCREASINGLY TARGETS IN COMBAT

Debate also Begins on Work Toward Anti-Terrorism Convention

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Sixth Committee

8^th Meeting (PM)

WORLD COMMUNITY MUST SPEAK WITH ONE VOICE IN FIGHT AGAINST TERRORISM,

ASSEMBLY’S LEGAL COMMITTEE TOLD

UNITED NATIONS SPACE PROGRAMME, CIVIL SOCIETY GROUPS TEAM UP

TO CELEBRATE WORLD SPACE WEEK 2002 (4-10 OCTOBER)

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

First Committee

4^th Meeting (AM)

DISARMAMENT APPARENTLY 'OUT OF FASHION', BANGLADESH TELLS FIRST COMMITTEE

AS IT CONTINUES GENERAL DEBATE

Speakers Say Complacency,Narrow Self-Interest Hinder Multilateral Efforts

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Second Committee

6^th Meeting (AM)

NOBEL LAUREATE HIGHLIGHTS TWO FACES OF GLOBALIZATION

IN BRIEFING TO SECOND COMMITTEE

The past year had shown how the positive and negative sides of globalization could affect the entire world, especially poorer countries, Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz told the Second Committee (Economic and Financial) this morning.

IN YALE UNIVERSITY ADDRESS, SECRETARY-GENERAL PLEADS

CAUSE OF ‘INCLUSIVE’ GLOBALIZATION

Following is the address by Secretary-General Kofi Annan at Yale University, New Haven, 2 October 2002: