Security Council

4368^th Meeting (AM)

SECURITY COUNCIL WELCOMES SUCCESSFUL EAST TIMOR ELECTIONS

The Security Council this morning warmly welcomed the successful staging of the elections for East Timor’s first Constituent Assembly on 30 August.

MILLENNIUM SUMMIT, FORUM PROVIDE MOMENTUM FOR TRUE PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN

CIVIL SOCIETY, UNITED NATIONS, GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT STATES

Following is the text of a statement made yesterday by General Assembly President Harri Holkeri (Finland) to the annual meeting of the World Federation of United Nations Associations:

Secretary-General Kofi Annan and Mrs. Nane Annan arrived in Sweden from Africa in the morning of Wednesday, 5 September.

Resumed Fifty-fifth General Assembly

Plenary

112^th Meeting (PM)

ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT CALLS FOR INTEGRATED APPROACH TO WORK OF UNITED NATIONS,

AS HE CLOSES FIFTY-FIFTH ASSEMBLY SESSION

SECRETARY-GENERAL FOCUSES ON AIDS, POVERTY, PROTECTION OF ENVIRONMENT

IN SPEECH TO NGOS

Following is the text of a statement made by Secretary-General Kofi Annan in New York this morning to the fifty-fourth Department of Public Information/Non-Governmental Organization (DPI/NGO) Conference:

GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT STRESSES ROLE OF CIVIL SOCIETY

IN MILLENNIUM FOLLOW-UP PROCESS

Following is the full text of the address by General Assembly President Harri Holkeri to the fifty-fourth DPI/NGO Conference:

Security Council

4366^th Meeting (AM)

COUNCIL TERMINATES PROHIBITION ON ARMS SALES TO YUGOSLAVIA

Unanimously Adopts Resolution 1367

The Security Council this morning terminated the prohibitions preventing the sale or supply of arms and related material to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. It did this by unanimously adopting resolution 1367.

DPI/NGO Fifty-fourth Annual Conference

AM Meeting

‘EVERYONE STANDS TO GAIN’ WHEN GOVERNMENTS, NGOS WORK TOGETHER,

SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS OPENING SESSION OF DPI/NGO CONFERENCE

Statement by Secretary-General on conclusion of World Conference Against Racism,

Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance

Following is the statement by Secretary-General Kofi Annan at the conclusion of the World Conference Against Racism, Durban, 8 September:

TRUE MEASURE OF DURBAN WILL BE DIFFERENCE IT MAKES IN LIVES OF VICTIMS,

HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS TELLS CLOSING OF RACISM CONFERENCE