Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annans remarks today at the commissioning and sod-cutting of the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre in Teshie, Ghana:
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In Press Release SC/6902 of 28 July, the second paragraph of page 1 should read, as follows:
The following statement was issued today by the Office of the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:
The following is a tentative list of United Nations meetings scheduled to be held in August, including major meetings of intergovernmental organizations related to the United Nations:
Meetings continued from previous month:
3 July-4 August United Nations Administrative Tribunal, Geneva
Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan's address today in Legon, Ghana, upon receiving an honourary degree from the University of Ghana:
In accordance with the principle of alphabetical rotation, the following are the new Chairmen of the United Nations security bodies for August:
Security Council
Hasmy Agam (Malaysia) succeeds M. Patricia Durrant (Jamaica) as President of the Security Council
Military Staff Committee
The Secretary-General today appointed Anna Kajumulo Tibaijuka as the new Executive Director of the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (Habitat). She will take up her new responsibilities at the Nairobi-based agency in the next three months.
The United Nations Economic and Social Council today adopted by consensus a resolution to establish a Permanent Forum for Indigenous Issues -- an unprecedented event in the international community. Today's action was the latest step in a long process initiated in 1993, when the Vienna World Conference on Human Rights first proposed such a forum.
NEW YORK, 31 July (Department of Disarmament Affairs) -- The 1999 United Nations Disarmament Yearbook has been released. This reference work focuses on the actions and reactions of the world community to the entire range of disarmament issues. In addition, it provides an overview of regional developments as they reflect concerns at the global level.
