Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annans address this evening to the seventeenth National Convention of the Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee in Arlington, Virginia:
Committee to Review Reports of 7 States Parties
Eighteen Additional Speakers Address Efforts to Implement Platform for Action Adopted at 1995 Beijing Women's Conference
The following statement was issued today by the Office of the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:
Proposed Programme Addresses Fissile Material, Nuclear Disarmament, Prevention of Outer Space Arms Race
The Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) and the United Nations Department of Public Information will jointly launch a world map of women in politics at a press conference today at the United Nations Headquarters.
It was a sad and sobering reality that women continued to be deprived of basic and fundamental rights because of measures imposed in certain countries, the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly was told this afternoon.
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:
The Secretary-General notes that there has been some progress overnight towards finalizing the outcome of the Beijing plus five process. He welcomes the spirit of cooperation shown by delegations.
Following is the address of Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette on United Nations Peacekeeping - a changing landscape, to the Canadian Institute of International Affairs and the United Nations Association of Canada in Ottawa on 8 June:
