SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES CONTINUING VIGILANCE IN PROTECTING OZONE LAYER

Following is the message by Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer, on 16 September:

Life started to develop significantly on our planet only after the ozone layer was in place in the stratosphere to filter out harmful levels of sunlight.  The battle to repair this life-sustaining system is far from over.

Security Council

4607^th Meeting (PM)

SECURITY COUNCIL HONOURS MEMORY OF VICTIMS OF 11 SEPTEMBER ATTACKS,

EXPRESSES SENSE OF SOLIDARITY WITH THEIR FAMILIES

NO GREATER AFFRONT TO SPIRIT OF UNITED NATIONS THAN 11 SEPTEMBER TERRORIST ATTACKS

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL TO COMMEMORATION AT HEADQUARTERS

Following are the remarks of Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the commemoration of the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States at Headquarters on 11 September: 

SECURITY COUNCIL COMMITTEE ADDS NAME OF AN INDIVIDUAL

AND AN ENTITY TO ITS LIST

The Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1267 (1999) has added on 11 September 2002 the following individual and entity to its list (Al-Qaida section):

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

General Committee

1^st and 2^nd Meetings (AM & PM)

GENERAL COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS AGENDA FOR FIFTY-SEVENTH

SESSION TO GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Decides Not To Recommend Inclusion of Item

On ‘Representation of the Republic of China (Taiwan)’

DPI/NGO Annual Conference

AM & PM Meetings

NGO/DPI CONFERENCE CONCLUDES WITH FOCUS ON REBUILDING SOCIETIES AFTER CONFLICT

Yugoslav President and East Timorese Vice-Minister Address Closing Session

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Plenary

1^st Meeting (PM)

WITH ADMISSION OF SWITZERLAND, UNITED NATIONS FAMILY NOW NUMBERS 190 MEMBER STATES

Priorities Listed by President of Fifty-seventh

Session Include Elaboration of Anti-Terrorism Convention

SECRETARY-GENERAL CITES NEED FOR ‘MESSAGE OF HOPE’

Following is the text of remarks by Secretary-General Kofi Annan at the Holy Family Church in New York, on 9 September:

DPI/NGO Annual Conference

PM Meeting

ECONOMIC RECOVERY CALLED PRIMARY ELEMENT IN PEACE-BUILDING,

AS DPI/NGO CONFERENCE CONTINUES

Economic recovery was called the primary element in peace-building, as the Fifty-fifth Annual DPI/NGO Conference continued its session this afternoon with a panel discussion entitled "From Less Than Zero:  The Challenge of Rebuilding Economies".

Secretary-General Kofi Annan arrived in South Africa from Mozambique on Sunday, 1 September.