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CONFERENCE ON DISARMAMENT HEARS STATEMENTS STRONGLY CONDEMNING

TERRORIST ATTACKS ON UNITED STATES

Adopts Annual Report and Concludes 2001 Session

(Reissued as received.)

ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY GENERAL CONFERENCE BEGINS ANNUAL SESSION

VIENNA, 17 September 2001 (IAEA) -- Ministers and high-level governmental representatives from the International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) 132 member States are meeting in Vienna this week for the forty-fifth regular session of the General Conference.  The Conference opened today, 17 September, and is scheduled to conclude 21 September 2001 at the Austria Centre Vienna.

PRESS STATEMENT ON FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA BY PRESIDENT OF SECURITY COUNCIL

Following is today's statement by the President of the Security Council, Jean-David Levitte (France) on the Council's meeting with Mr. Nebojsa Covic, Deputy Prime Minister of Serbia (Federal Republic of Yugoslavia):

NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT PROGRESS EVEN MORE IMPORTANT AFTER TERRORIST ATTACK

ON UNITED STATES SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL TO ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY MEETING

Following is the message of Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the forty-fifth General Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), delivered by Steinar Bjornsson, Deputy-Director, United Nations Office at Vienna, on 17 September:

CHAIRMAN OF COMMITTEE ON RELATIONS WITH HOST COUNTRY EXPRESSES OUTRAGE

AT LAST WEEK’S TERRORIST ATTACKS

Following is the text of today’s press statement by Sotirios Zacheos, Chairman of the Committee on Relations with the Host Country:

General Committee

Fifty-sixth Session

1^st, 2^nd & 3^rd Meetings (AM, PM & Night)

GENERAL COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS 188-ITEM GENERAL ASSEMBLY AGENDA,

INCLUDING PROPOSAL FOR CONVENTION AGAINST HUMAN CLONING

HOST COUNTRY IN MOURNING, BUT WITH ITS SPIRIT INTACT,

SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS UNITED NATIONS STAFF

“Our host city is deeply wounded.  Our host country is in mourning, but its magnificent spirit is not broken”, Secretary-General Kofi Annan told United Nations staff this morning at a special meeting to pay tribute to the memory of victims of recent terrorist violence in the United States.

PEACE A DREAM DEFERRED THIS YEAR, SECRETARY-GENERAL REMARKS AT PEACE BELL CEREMONY

Following is the text of remarks made by Secretary-General Kofi Annan at the annual ceremony of the ringing of the Peace Bell, held today at Headquarters:

Security Council

4372^nd Meeting* (PM)

SECURITY COUNCIL EXTENDS MANDATE OF UNMEE UNTIL 15 MARCH 2002

The Security Council this afternoon extended the mandate of the United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE), at unchanged troop and military observer levels, until 15 March 2002.

‘OUR PLACE IS BESIDE THOSE IN DISTRESS’, SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS STAFF

AT SPECIAL MEETING FOR TERROR VICTIMS

Following is the text of remarks to staff made today by Secretary-General Kofi Annan at a special meeting in tribute to the memory of the victims of the terrorist acts that struck the United States:

Dear friends,