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31/01/2001
Security Council Extends Unifil Mandate to 31 July
31/01/2001
Secretary-General Appoints Alan Doss as Deputy Special Representative in Sierra Leone
30/01/2001
- UN Secretary-General Offers Global Plan on Development Finances; Reforms Are Pressed for in Crisis Prevention, Global Tax Loopholes, Market Access and National Financial and Legal Infrastructures
30/01/2001
In Address to World Economic Forum, Secretary-General Says Globalization Must Work for All
30/01/2001
Secretary-General Calls for Commitment to Tolerance and Empathy in Stockholm Address
29/01/2001
East Timorese Leader Commends Untaet’s "Timorization Policy in Day-long Security Council Debate on Territory
29/01/2001
Secretary-General Appoints Registrar for International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
26/01/2001
Thirty-two Non-governmental Organizations Approved for Association with Department of Public Information
26/01/2001
Security Council Takes up Report on Diamonds, Arms in Sierra Leone; Expert Panel Says Council Sanctions Broken "with "Impunity -- Speakers Call for New Measures to Stem Illicit Traffic; Liberia Target of "Unsubstantiated "Allegations,
25/01/2001
European Launch of UN Millennium World Drug Report; Executive Director Pino Arlacchi Concludes Tour of Capitals
25/01/2001
Secretary-General Praises "Remarkable "Partnership Between UN, Japan at Opening of UN House in Tokyo
24/01/2001
Security Council, Concerned by Rising Tension in Central African Republic, Says Lack of Dialogue, Economic Crisis Obstacles to Reconciliation; Presidential Statement Commends Peace-building Support Office, Calls on Member States to Fulfil Commitments Mad
24/01/2001
Security Council, Unanimously Adopting Resolution 1336 (2001), Extends Mandate of Angola Sanctions Monitoring Mechanism for Three Months; Requests Written Addendum to Final Report by 19 April
24/01/2001
Secretary-General Calls on Governments to Do Their Part in Bridging Digital Divide
24/01/2001
Secretary-General Calls for Firm and Concerted Action at Conference on Disarmament to Overcome Last Session’s Stalemate
23/01/2001
President of General Assembly Visits Singapore, East Timor, Indonesia
22/01/2001
Security Council Extends Deadline for Nominations of International Tribunal Judges
22/01/2001
Secretary-General Very Concerned About Reports of Civilians Deliberately Targeted and Killed in Afghanistan
19/01/2001
UN Drug Report Sees Hope on Horizon
19/01/2001
Security Council Hears Briefing on Kosovo Situation
19/01/2001
Secretary-General, at Africa-france Summit, Says African Development Not A Lost Cause -- Focuses on Need for Improved Governance, Education, as Well as Debt Relief and Market Access
17/01/2001
Secretary-General Welcomes 15 January Creation of "East African "Community
17/01/2001
Deputy Secretary-General Tells Security Council That Strength and Promise of United Nations Peacekeeping Lies in Collaborative Approach
17/01/2001
UN Environment Programme Confirms Uranium 236 Found in Depleted Uranium Penetrators
17/01/2001
New United Nations Demographic Yearbook Published Statistics for 1998 Compiled and Compared
17/01/2001
Cooperation Among Security Council, Secretariat, Troop Contributors Stressed During Day-long Security Council Debate -- 37 Speakers, Including 21 Troop Contributors, Address Council
16/01/2001
Membership of Principal United Nations Organs in 2001
15/01/2001
United Nations Member States
15/01/2001
Council Extends UN Prevlaka Mandate for Six Months Unanimously Adopts Resolution 1335 (2001)
15/01/2001
- Developments Throughout Africa, Renewed Violence in Middle East Among Key Issues for Security Council in 2000 -- Adopts Resolution on HIV/AIDS, Responds to Brahimi Report, Holds Debates on Women and Security, Children in Armed Conflict
15/01/2001
Secretary-General Praises Tireless Efforts, Extraordinary Ontribution of Bernard Kouchner in Kosovo
15/01/2001
Secretary-General Praises Effectiveness of Group of 77 in Remarks to Ceremonial Meeting in New York
12/01/2001
Depleted Uranium Sites in Kosovo Detailed by United Nations Environment Programme
12/01/2001
Security Council Statement Reaffirms Council’s Commitment to Peace in Somalia
11/01/2001
New Web Site Available on United Nations Year of Dialogue Among Civilizations
11/01/2001
Secretary-General, in Remarks to World Affairs Councils of America, Highlights Importance of UN, United States Relationship
10/01/2001
Secretary-General Reiterates Call for Reconciliation in Myanmar
08/01/2001
Committee on the Rights of Child to Hold Twenty-sixth Session at Geneva, 8 - 26 January -- Experts to Examine Reports from Latvia, Liechtenstein, Ethiopia, Egypt, Lithuania, Lesotho, Saudi Arabia, Palau and Dominican Republic
08/01/2001
United Nations Environment Programme Samples from Depleted Uranium Sites in Kosovo Now Being Analysed in Five Laboratories
08/01/2001
Chairpersons and Vice-chairpersons of Security Council Sanctions Committee Elected for 2001
03/01/2001
Number of Signatories to International Criminal Court Statute Encouraging, Secretary-General Says -- Following Is the Text of A Statement Issued Today by the Office of the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan
03/01/2001
Women’s Anti-discrimination Committee to Hold 24th Session at Headquarters 15 January - 2 February -- Reports of Eight States Parties Will Be Reviewed
03/01/2001
Tentative Schedule of Meetings of United Nations Bodies in January 2001
03/01/2001
New Chairmen of United Nations Security Bodies in January
02/01/2001
Security Council Committee Concerning Afghanistan Considers List of Organizations Providing Humanitarian Assistance
02/01/2001
Secretary-General Commends Conclusion of Ghana’s Electoral Process
28/02/2001
Secretary-General Expresses Alarm Concerning Taliban Edict Ordering Destruction of Statues and Non-islamic Shrines
27/02/2001
With 22 Million Dead 36 Million Infected, Importance of HIV/AIDS Cannot Be Overstated, Says Deputy Secretary-General at Headquarters Consultation
27/02/2001
General Assembly Approves List of Civil Society Participants for June HIV/AIDS Special Session
27/02/2001
Daily Life for Majority of World’s Women Remains Difficult Struggle, Says Secretary-General in Messsage on International Women’s Day
26/02/2001
Outer Space Scientific and Technical Subcommittee Concludes Thirty-eighth Session in Vienna - Discusses Implementation of Unispace Iii Recommendations, Applications of Satellite Remote Sensing of the Earth and Space Debris
26/02/2001
High Commissioner for Human Rights Introduces Logo for World Conference Against Racism
26/02/2001
Commission for Social Development Concludes Thirty-ninth Session
23/02/2001
General Assembly Adopts Resolution on Title and Arrangements for June 2001 Special Session on HIV/AIDS
23/02/2001
UN Relief and Works Agency Launches New Emergency Appeal, as Situation in West Bank and Gaza Continues to Deteriorate
23/02/2001
Security Council Demands Disengagement in Democratic Republic of Congo, Urges Adoption of Complete Withdrawal Plans by 15 May; Resolution 1341 (2001) Adopted Unanimously; Council Intends to Monitor Progress with May Mission to Region
23/02/2001
Thirty Speakers Address Security Council on Angola Sanctions Violations; Conflict Diamonds, Penalties for Violators Among Issues Raised; Sanctions Committee Chair Introduces Monitoring Mechanism Report
22/02/2001
Expert Panel Examines Roles of United Nations System in Alleviating Hardships in Palestinian Territories
22/02/2001
Palestinian Seminar Concludes in Vienna - Speakers Call for End to Israeli Restrictive Measures, Donor Assistance to Palestinian Economy
22/02/2001
Asian Preparatory Meeting for World Conference on Racism Adopts Declaration, Action Programme
22/02/2001
Security Council Meets on Peace Process in Democratic Republic of Congo; Secretary-General Notes Recent Progress, Calm on Confrontation Line - Foreign Minister of Zimbabwe Cites ’Renewed ’Hope for Peace, Warns Against ’Minimalist Concept O
22/02/2001
Secretary-General Outlines Principles for UN Efforts in Promoting Democracy in Message to Community of Democracies Seminar
22/02/2001
Secretary-General Notes Recent Progress in Democratic Republic of Congo, but Says Great Challenges Ahead, in Statement to Security Council
22/02/2001
Secretary-General Tells Special Committee Its Efforts Have Led to Progress on Decolonization
21/02/2001
UN Secretary-General Calls on Governments to Take up AIDS Challenge Seeks Global Commitment to Reverse AIDS Spread
21/02/2001
Asian Preparatory Meeting for World Committee Against Racism Begins in Tehran
21/02/2001
Security Council Addresses Comprehensive Approach to Peace-building in Presidential Statement - Statement Deals with, Among Others, Integrated Strategy, Interrelationship Among Peacekeeping, Peacemaking, Peace-building
21/02/2001
UN Secretary-General Calls on Governments to Take up AIDS Challenge - Seeks Global Commitment to Reverse AIDS Spread
21/02/2001
Human Trafficking One of Most Egregious Human Rights Violations, Says Secretary-General in Message to Abuja Conference
20/02/2001
United Nations Seminar on Assistance to Palestinian People Opens in Vienna
20/02/2001
Secretary-General Notes Worrying Decline in Assistance to Palestinian People
19/02/2001
United Nations Seminar on Assistance to the Palestianian People Vienna, 20 and 21 February 2001
19/02/2001
Press Briefing by UN Coordinator for Middle East Peace Process
19/02/2001
Cannabis Is North America’s Most Abused Drug, Says International Narcotics Control Board Report 2000
19/02/2001
Border Closures and Other Restrictions Cause Concern About Palestinian Authority’s Capacity to Continue Functioning, Secretary-General States
19/02/2001
Secretary-General Expresses Concern About Middle East Incident
15/02/2001
Assembly Calls for Assistance to Bolivia in Aftermath of Flooding, Decides on NGO Participation Arrangements at Upcoming Special Session on Children
15/02/2001
Millennium Summit Targets Cannot Be Met Without Resources for Development, Secretary-General Tells Panel
14/02/2001
Under-secretary-General for Peacekeeping Briefs Security Council on Kosovo; Describes Progress towards Province-wide Elections; Council Members Stress Concerns on Recent Violence in Mitrovica, Need to Ensure Participation of All Ethnic Groups in Electora
14/02/2001
- *reissued for Technical Reason Secretary-General Urges Security Council to Seize New Opportunity for Peace in Democratic Republic of Congo
13/02/2001
High-level Event on Development Financing Can Mark Turning Point for Poor, Says Secretary-General in Statement to Preparatory Committee
13/02/2001
Urbanization of Poverty One of New Millennium’s Biggest Global Challenges, Says Secretary-General in Message to UN Commission on Human Settlements
12/02/2001
Deputy Secretary-General Describes Challenges of Globalization in Address to Ottawa Leadership Forum
12/02/2001
Secretary-General Appoints New Special Adviser for Strategic Planning
12/02/2001
Commission on Social Development Meets at Headquarters, 13 - 23 February; Theme: Enhancing Social Protection in Globalizing World
09/02/2001
- Background Release United Nations Seminar on Assistance to Palestinian People --
09/02/2001
President of Russia Meets with UNOV Director-General
09/02/2001
Security Council Sends Nominations for Former Yugoslavia Tribunal Judges to General Assembly
09/02/2001
In Address at Memorial Service, Secretary-General Honours United Nations Staff Members Killed on Mission in Mongolia
09/02/2001
Secretary-General Asks UN Emergency Relief Coordinator to Go to Afghanistan
08/02/2001
Secretary-General Urges Security Council to Seize New Opportunity for Peace in Democratic Republic of Congo
08/02/2001
Secretary-General Lists Main Points of United Nations Discussions with Regional Organizations on Peace-building
08/02/2001
Secretary-General Congratulates New Israeli Prime Minister, Expresses Sincere Hope Search for Peace Will Continue
07/02/2001
Press Briefing by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson (6 Feb)
06/02/2001
Peace-building Done Well A Powerful Deterrent to Violent Conflict, Secretary-General Tells Security Council
06/02/2001
Preparatory Process for May Least Developed Countries Conference Must Engender Sense of Hope, Says General Assembly President
06/02/2001
"Empowering Youth to Fight Racism"; A Proposal for A Special Event on 21 March 2001 with the United Nations
06/02/2001
Japan’s Contribution to UN Programmes of Promoting Astronomy and Basic Space Science in Developing Countries Marks Tenth Year Anniversary
06/02/2001
Outer Space Scientific and Technical Subcommittee to Hold Thirty-eighth Session in Vienna, 12-23 February 2001; to Discuss Implementation of Unispace Iii Recommendations, Applications of Satellite Remote Sensing of the Earth and Space Debris
06/02/2001
UN Outer Space Body to Hold Symposia on Terrestrial Hazards from Outer Space Objects, and on Emerging Applications of Global Navigation Satellite Systems
05/02/2001
Democratic Republic of Congo President Assures Council of His Commitment to Lusaka Agreement
05/02/2001
Moment of Opportunity "Must Be "Seized by Democratic Republic of Congo, Says Secretary-General in Statement to Security Council
05/02/2001
Secretary-General Says Public Attention on Importance of Disarmament Issues Must Be Roused
02/02/2001
New Permanent Representative of India Presents Credentials
02/02/2001
New UN Public Service Announcement Targets Trafficking of Women
02/02/2001
Secretary-General Welcomes Greater Attention on Conflict Prevention
02/02/2001
Secretary-General and Swedish Prime Minister Encourage Middle East Parties to Continue Peace Process
01/02/2001
Secretary-General Expresses Hope That Healing Process Can Begin Following Lockerbie Verdict
01/02/2001
Tentative Schedule of Meetings of United Nations Bodies in February 2001
01/02/2001
Security Council to Establish Working Group on Peacekeeping Issues
30/03/2001
Secretary-General Gravely Concerned at Escalation of Violence in Israel and Palestinian Territories; Calls for Urgent Resumption of Dialogue
30/03/2001
Member States Critical of Delay in Promised Payments from United States, in Fifth Committee; Under-secretary-General Provides Information on Human Resources Reforms
30/03/2001
UNIS Vienna Launches New Web Site
30/03/2001
Outer Space Legal Subcommittee to Hold Fortieth Session in Vienna, 2-12 April 2001 -- to Discuss Space Law, Draft Convention of the International Institute for Unification of Private Law and the Concept of the "Launching "State
29/03/2001
- UN Narcotics Commission Commends Progress Made in Meeting Drug Control Goals -- Calls for Stepped-up Efforts to Reduce Demand for Illicit Drugs, Places Four New Synthetic Substances Under Treaty Control
29/03/2001
Broader Social Roles for Business Will Complement Search for Profit, Secretary-General Tells Swiss Business Community
28/03/2001
Draft Resolution on Middle East Situation Rejected by Security Council -- Vote on Text by Non-aligned States Is Nine in Favour, Four Abstaining, One Against (united States)
28/03/2001
Secretary-General Urges Israelis and Palestinians to Return to Path of Peace
27/03/2001
General Assembly President, in Message on World Tuberculosis Day, Urges Focus on Education, Awareness to Fight Deepening Epidemic
27/03/2001
World Community Must Address Mental Health Concerns Openly, Honestly, Says Secretary-General in Message on World Health Day
26/03/2001
Transcript of Press Conference by Secretary-General Kofi Annan at Headquarters, 22 March 2001
26/03/2001
Secretary-General Says Work for Peace Must Engage Everyone
26/03/2001
Voluntary Cooperation Is Cornerstone of Global Weather Forecasting, General Assembly President Says in Message on World Meteorological Day
26/03/2001
"Basketball Without Borders": Nba Stars to Conduct Camp for Kids from Former Yugoslavia -- United Nations Drug Control Programme (undcp), Fiba, the National Basketball Association (nba), Benetton and Blu Team up for Basketball Camp
26/03/2001
- Committee on Elimination of Racial Discrimination Concludes Fifty-eighth Session
23/03/2001
Financial Stability for United Nations within Reach, When United States Arrears Paid, Under-secretary-General Tells Fifth Committee
23/03/2001
Press Conference by Secretary-General, New York Headquarters, 22 March
23/03/2001
Security Council States Determination to Intensify Efforts to Implement September 2000 Summit Commitments
23/03/2001
Security Council Condemns Attempts by So-called Croat National Congress to Establish Self-rule in Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Presidential Statement Supports Actions of High Representative; Wolfgang Petritsch Tells Council ?nationalist Message Is Losing Gr
23/03/2001
Cultivation of Sense of Neighbourhood, Attention to Root Causes and Political Will Needed for Effective Conflict Prevention, Secretary-General Says
22/03/2001
’Every Issue Is A "Women’s "Issue, and Women Should Get Involved in All Areas of Human ’Concerns, Says Deputysecretary-General
22/03/2001
General Assembly President’s Message for World Poetry Daygeneral Assembly President’s Message for World Poetry Day
22/03/2001
General Assembly President’s Message for World Day for Water
22/03/2001
Unca Prize for UN Coverage 2001 -- the Unca/ranan Lurie Prize for Political Cartoons, 2001
22/03/2001
Security Council Presidential Statement Welcomes New Agreements Between Georgian and Abkhaz Sides
22/03/2001
Security Council Condemns Extremist Violence, Terrorist Activities in Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Southern Serbia -- Adopts Resolution 1345 (2001) Unanimously; Also Calls on Kosovo Albanian Political Leaders to Condemn Violence
22/03/2001
Secretary-General Welcomes New Funding Round by United Nations Foundation
21/03/2001
Deputy Secretary-General Addresses Expanded Concept of Peacekeeping in Address to Paasikivi Society in Helsinki
21/03/2001
General Assembly President Stresses Need for Racial Equality, Tolerance on International Day for Elimination of Racial Discrimination
21/03/2001
UN in Vienna Seeking Nominees for Civil Society Award
21/03/2001
Journalism Fellowships to Cover UN Small Arms Conference in New York
21/03/2001
UN Holds Workshop on Data Analysis for Educators and Scientists from Western Asia
20/03/2001
New Web Site Shows How Un’s Work Benefits People
20/03/2001
Security Council Hears Calls for Middle East Observer Force -- However, Israel States Establishing Force Would Sanction Terrorism
20/03/2001
Secretary-General Praises Partnerships to Address Digital Divide
20/03/2001
Violence by Albanian Extremists Threat to Regional Security, Secretary-General States
20/03/2001
- Round-up Women’s Commission Suspends Session; Adopts Resolutions on Palestinian Women, Hostage-taking, Discrimination in Afghanistan, and Gender Mainstreaming
19/03/2001
General Assembly Adopts Resolution on IAEA, Adds Agenda Item on Selection of Judges for Rwanda Tribunal
19/03/2001
Clear, Sound Procurement Contracts Needed to Avoid Financial Claims on Organization, Budget Committee Told
19/03/2001
Security Council Calls for End to Ethnic Violence in Kosovo, Support for Effort towards Province-wide Elections -- Presidential Statement Also Welcomes Legal Framework Working Group; Kosovo Special Representative Says Province Violence Unacceptably High
16/03/2001
Deputy Secretary-General Notes Special Problems Posed by Ethnic Conflicts, in Opening Remarks to Seminar on Aland Islands Settlement
16/03/2001
- UN Narcotics Commission to Review World Drug Control Issues -- Will Meet in Vienna from 20 to 29 March
16/03/2001
Security Council Hears Calls for End to Violence in Occupied Territories; Many Speakers Also Support Observer Mission to Region
16/03/2001
Secretary-General Expresses Hope That All Peoples Can Unite in Celebrating Full Diversity of Language
16/03/2001
Secretary-General Praises India’s Peacekeeping Contributions in Remarks at New Delhi Training Centre
16/03/2001
Major Challenge: How to Make Civilization Work for World’s People, Says Secretary-General to Indian Chambers of Commerce Federation
16/03/2001
Women’s Commission Considers Decision on Human Rights Communications Methods and Implementation of Beijing Action Plan and Special Session Document
15/03/2001
A Photo Project Dedicated to the UN Year of Dialogue Among Civilizations
15/03/2001
United Nations and Mtv Join to Help Young Adults Fight Against Racism
15/03/2001
Secretary-General Calls for Break in Political Stalemate Over Environmental Issues
14/03/2001
Dallas Mavericks Eduardo Nàjera Named UNDCP Goodwill Ambassador for Sports Against Drugs
14/03/2001
Open Communication and Advocacy Needed to Overcome HIV/AIDS Pandemic, Commission on Status of Women Told
14/03/2001
Gender Perspective Needed in Development of Policies to Counter Racial Discrimination, Commission on Status of Women Told
14/03/2001
Commission on Status of Women Reviews Its System-wide Medium-term Plan and Proposed Work Programme of Special Adviser on Gender Issues
13/03/2001
Webcast and Final Report of UN World Television Forum 2000 Available Online
13/03/2001
Secretary-General Salutes Pakistan’s UN Contributions, Offers Support for Efforts to Establish Democracy, in Toast at Islamabad Banquet
13/03/2001
Secretary-General Says Day for Elimination of Racial Discrimination Celebrates Steps World Has Taken to Free Itself from Racial Hatred
13/03/2001
Access to Safe Water Fundamental Human Need, Basic Human Right, Says Secretary-General in Message on World Water Day
13/03/2001
Commission Hears Introduction of Resolutions on Hostage-taking, Palestinian Women, HIV/AIDS, Discrimination in Afghanistan and Gender Mainstreaming
09/03/2001
Women Can Be Powerful Force for Peace and Reconciliation and Must Be Integrated More Effectively in Peace Processes Worldwide, Says Deputy Secretary-General
09/03/2001
Despite Contribution to Peace, "Women Are All Too Often Absent or Poorly Represented in Formal Peace "Taks, Deputy Secretary-General Says
09/03/2001
International Women’s Day Statement by General Assembly President
09/03/2001
Statement to Press by Security Council President on Occasion of International Women’s Day
09/03/2001
Security Council Demands That Liberia Immediately Cease Support for Sierra Leone’s Ruf and Other Armed Rebel Groups; Resolution 1343 (2001) Adopted Unanimously; Council Also Demands That Liberia Cease Import of Sierra Leone Rough Diamonds
09/03/2001
UN High Commissioner for Refugees Asks Security Council to Strengthen Mission in Sierra Leone; Says More Troops and Revised Mandate Are Keys to Country’s Future
09/03/2001
Secretary-General Deeply Concerned at Rapidly Deteriorating Flood Situation in Mozambique; Appeals to Governments and Private Sector to Respond Urgently
09/03/2001
Resource Mobilization and Resolution of Debt Problem Among Actions Needed to Improve Status of Women, Commission Told
09/03/2001
Commission Panel on Women and AIDS Discusses Relations Between Men and Women, Need for Treatment Access, and Question of AIDS Testing
08/03/2001
Security Council Meets to Review Commitments of September 2000 Summit; Secretary-General Cites Council’s ’Crisis of ’Credibility
08/03/2001
Security Council, in Presidential Statement, Condemns Violence by Ethnic Albanian Extremists in Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia; Foreign Minister of Former Yugoslav Republic Briefs Council
08/03/2001
Secretary-General Cites Security Council’s "Crisis of "Credibility as Council Meets to Follow up 2000 Summit Declaration
08/03/2001
Women’s Empowerment Seen as Crucial to Success of Development Strategies and Fight Against HIV/AIDS, Commission on Status of Women Told
08/03/2001
Commission on Status of Women Considers Work Programme for Period 2002-2006
07/03/2001
French Soccer Champion Zinedine Zidane to Be Appointed UNDP Goodwill Ambassador
07/03/2001
Commission on Status of Women Opens Forty-fifth Session at Headquarters
07/03/2001
Role of Technology Must Be Key Facet of Strategy to Eliminate Discrimination, Commission on Status of Women Told
06/03/2001
New Permanent Representative of Portugal Presents Credentials
06/03/2001
In Presidential Statement, Security Council Strongly Condemns Recent Attacks in Burundi, Also Condemns Deliberate Targeting of Civilian Population
06/03/2001
United Nations to Send Inter-agency Mission to West Africa
06/03/2001
- Background Release Commission on Status of Women to Meet at Headquarters, 6 - 16 March; Thematic Issues: Hiv/aids; Gender, All Forms of Discrimination
02/03/2001
Multiple Crises in Middle East Require "Statesmanship and "Vision, Secretary-General Tells Palestinian Rights Committee - Committee Adopts Work Programme, Elects Officers; Palestine’s Permanent Observer Stresses Need for Observer Mission
02/03/2001
Economic and Social Crisis, Security Crisis, and Crisis in Confidence in Middle East Must Be Addressed Simultaneously, Secretay-General Tells Committee
02/03/2001
Secretary-General Asks United States Geographers to Work with Him to Tackle Climate Change Problems, Environmental Degradation and Sustainable Development
01/03/2001
Tentative Schedule of Meetings of United Nations Bodies in March 2001
01/03/2001
Secretary-General Appoints New Special Adviser for Strategic Planning
01/03/2001
Secretary-General Gravely Concerned at Violence in Border Area of Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
30/04/2001
Mandela, Annan, Gates Urge World to Say Yes for Children; Unprecedented Global Campaign Seeks Millions of Pledges
30/04/2001
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan Appeals to Donors for Large-scale Mobilization in Fight Against Aids; Commitments to Global Fund Are Urged in Speech to Foundations
30/04/2001
Deputy Secretary-General Calls for Greater Assistance for Chernobyl Victims
30/04/2001
Focusing on DPI Role in Furthering Millennium Declaration Goals, Committee on Information to Meet at Headquarters 30 April - 11 May
30/04/2001
Security Coundil Extends Mandate of Western Sahara Mission Until 30 June, Unanimously Adopting Resolution 1349 (2001)
30/04/2001
Security Council Forwards Names of 64 Judges for Former Yugoslavia Tribunal to General Assembly, Unanimously Adopting Resolution 1350 (2001)
30/04/2001
Secretary-General Greatly Distressed at Murders of Six Human Workers in Democratic Republic of Congo
30/04/2001
Secretary-General Appeals to Comoros Parties to Adhere to Framework Reconciliation Agreement
27/04/2001
Deputy Secretary-General Describes Vision, Accomplishments of "New United Nations, in New York Address
27/04/2001
Fight Against Infectious Diseases Will Require Will Power, Resources and Capacities, Assembly President Tells African Leaders Summit
27/04/2001
Message from General Assembly President on Anniversary of Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster
27/04/2001
United Nations and Oecd Hold Joint Workshop on Governance, Poverty Reduction and Gender Equality
27/04/2001
Secretary-General Proposes Global Fund for Fight Against HIV/AIDS and Other Infectious Diseases at African Leaders Summit
26/04/2001
In Presidential Statement, Security Council Says Lack of Progres
26/04/2001
Secretary-General Calls for Greater Assistance for Chernobyl Victims
25/04/2001
Transcript of Press Conference by Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette at Headquarters, 24 April 2001
25/04/2001
- United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan Calls for Large-scale Mobilization in Fight Against AIDS -- Key Priorities and Funding Objectives Are Set Out in Speech to Oau Summit on AIDS
25/04/2001
Unscear Vienna Meeting Focuses on Chernobyl Accident
25/04/2001
In Presidential Statement, Security Council Says Lack of Progress on Key Issues Regarding Conflict in Abkhazia, Georgia, Is Unacceptable
24/04/2001
Civilian Protection Must Be Regular, Central Aspect of UN Peace Operations, Deputy Secretary-General Says, in Statement to Security Council
24/04/2001
World Book and Copyright Day Acknowledges Intellectual, Artistic Property Has Right to Protection Says General Assembly President
24/04/2001
Fifty-second Volume of United Nations Yearbook Published Covering Organization’s Major Activities in 1998
24/04/2001
Council Hears Calls to End Impunity for Perpetrators of Genocide and Gross Rights Violations, as It Discusses Protection of Civilians in Conflict
23/04/2001
Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights to Hold Twenty-fifth Session, 23 April - 11 May -- Committee Will Consider Reports of Venezuela, Honduras, China: Hong Kong, Republic of Korea and Bolivia
23/04/2001
Secretary-General Congratulates Head of WHO on Global Leadership Award
20/04/2001
Secretary-General "Delighted by Pharmaceutical ’Companies Withdrawal of Legal Action Against South African Government
20/04/2001
Secretary-General Cites "Catalytic "Role of ESCAP in Making Globalization Positive Force, in Message to Bangkok Conference
19/04/2001
New Permanent Representative of Zimbabwe Presents Credentials
19/04/2001
New Permanent Representative of Syria Presents Credentials
19/04/2001
Secretary-General, in Message to Kiev Conference on Chernobyl Disaster, Says Solidarity, Transparency Needed to Cope with Industrial Accidents
18/04/2001
New Permanent Representative of South Africa Presents Credentials
17/04/2001
Security Council Committee Names Ruf Members Subject to Expulsion from Liberia
17/04/2001
UN Leaders Describe Free Press as Essential for Development, in Joint World Press Freedom Day Message
17/04/2001
Secretary-General Calls on Governments to Show Utmost Restraint in Middle East
17/04/2001
Deputy Secretary-General Speaks to Swiss Parliament Committees on United Nations of Today and of Tomorrow
17/04/2001
- Media Advisory United Nations to Hold First Special Session on HIV/AIDS, 25-27 June 2001 -- Governments Will Convene to Plan Intensified Action to Combat the Global Epidemic
17/04/2001
Outer Space Legal Subcommittee Concludes Fortieth Session in Vienna, 2-12 April 2001 -- Discussed Space Law, Draft Unidroit Convention and Protocol on Matters Specific to Space Property and the Concept of the "Launching "State
12/04/2001
Secretary-General Calls for Full Implementation of Sharm El Sheikh Understandings and End to Middle East Violence
12/04/2001
Secretary-General Says Benefits of Space Exploration Should Not Be Limited to Privileged Few
10/04/2001
Kosovo Serbs to Participate in Working Group on Substantive Autonomy, Security Council Told
10/04/2001
Secretary-General, in Message to Havana Inter-parliamentary Conference, Says "Parliamentary "Vision Complements United ’Nations Own
09/04/2001
"Culture "Matters - at Heart of Population and Development Attitudes, Commission on Population and Development Told
09/04/2001
UN Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette Meets with President Kabbah
09/04/2001
General Assembly President Draws Attention to Importance of Mental Health, in Message on World Health Day
09/04/2001
"Culture "Matters - at Heart of Population and Development Attitudes, Commission on Population and Development Told
06/04/2001
Secretary-General Announces Steps by Leading Drug Companies to Improve AIDS Treatment Access to Developing Countries
05/04/2001
United Nations Issues Wall Chart on Population, Environment and Development
05/04/2001
Population and Development Commission Briefed on Secretariat’s Work in Population Field, Upcoming United Nations Conferences
05/04/2001
Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Tells Council of Pr
04/04/2001
Secretary-General’s Statement on Term of High Commissioner for Human Rights
04/04/2001
Secretary-General Encourages Continuation of Troop Withdrawal from Democratic Republic of Congo
03/04/2001
Secretary-General Commends Federal Republic of Yugoslavia for Arrest of Slobodan Milosevic
02/04/2001
Security Council Extends Sierra Leone Mission’s Mandate for Six Months, Increases Troop Strength to 17,500; Resolution 1346 (2001) Adopted Unanimously
02/04/2001
Security Council Forwards Nominations for Rwanda Tribunal Judges to General Assembly Adopting Resolution 1347 (2001) Unanimously
02/04/2001
Secretary-General Salutes Yale University on 300th Anniversary, as UN Postal Administration Issues Commemorative Cancellation
02/04/2001
UN Conferences Provided ?dynamic Blueprints for Progress on Key ’Issues, Secretary-General Tells Commission on Human Rights
02/04/2001
Dialogue ’Vital to Success of UN Missions, Says Secretary-General in Remarks to Seminar of Special Representatives
31/05/2001
Council, Examining Report of Its Great Lakes Mission, Sees "Window of "Opportunity in Democratic Republic of the Congo; Several Speakers Express Concern Over Burundi Situation
31/05/2001
Secretary-General Highlights Remaining Challenges in Democratic Republic of Congo Peace Process
30/05/2001
New Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation Presents Credentials
30/05/2001
Secretary-General Calls for Restraint, Statesmanship in Middle East, in Message to Emergency Meeting of Islamic Conference
30/05/2001
Public Sector Corruption Weakens Democracy, Encourages Organized Crime, Says Secretary-General in Message to Global Forum
30/05/2001
In Wake of Yesterday’s Coup Attempt, Secretary-General Calls on People of Central African Republic to Respect Democratic Institutions
29/05/2001
Basketball Star Vlade Divac to Coach Kids at Un/nba Sports Camp; Austrian Airlines to Co-sponsor Multi-ethnic Project
28/05/2001
Secretary-General Welcomes Sudan Government Decision to Halt Air Attacks in Nuba Mountains, Southern Sudan
25/05/2001
"Illegal Economy and Money Laundering": to Be Theme of Russia/un Meeting in St. Petersburg (5-6 June)
25/05/2001
"Let Us Be Good Stewards of the Earth We "Inherited Secretary-General Urges in Salute to World Environment Day
24/05/2001
International Organizations Join Forces in Fight Against Drug Trafficking Through the Mail Network
24/05/2001
Secretary-General Dismayed at Reports of Taliban Proposal to Order "Identity "Labels for Non-muslim Afghans
24/05/2001
Secretary-General Salutes Participants at Havana Regional Seminar on Decolonization
23/05/2001
Much Can Be Done to Assist Non-self-governing Territories, Assembly President Says in Message for Week of Solidarity
23/05/2001
Humanitarian Action in 2001: A Mid-year Review for 19 Complex Emergencies
23/05/2001
Secretary-General Urges Speedy Signature, Ratification of Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants
22/05/2001
High Commissioner for Human Rights Tells Preparatory Meeting Its Work Is Vital for World Conference Against Racism
22/05/2001
Secretary-General Gives Commencement Address at Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University: "Containing Climate Change: A Global "Challenge
22/05/2001
Problem of Invasive Alien Species Must Be Addressed, Says Assembly President, in Message Marking International Day for Biological Diversity
21/05/2001
New Permanent Representative of Mongolia Presents Credentials
21/05/2001
Assembly Approves Ngos for Participation in Special Assembly Session on HIV/AIDS
21/05/2001
Prof. Hamid Ghodse of the Islamic Republic of Iran Re-elected President of International Narcotics Control Board
21/05/2001
Untv Documentaries Garner More Awards with U.s. Festival Success; First Place "Gold Camera "Award Goes to "Armed to the "Teeth Second Place "Silver Screen "Award Given to "Legacies of "War
18/05/2001
Secretary-General’s Message for the International Day for Biological Diversity, 22 May 2001
18/05/2001
- Corruption: Central Theme of Crime Commission Meeting
18/05/2001
- International Narcotics Control Board to Focus on High Tech Challenges to Drug Law Enforcement
18/05/2001
Poverty Biggest Enemy of Health in Developing World, Secretary-General Tells World Health Assembly
16/05/2001
Ethiopia and Eritrea Must Provide UN Mission with Unrestricted Access and Freedom of Movement, Security Council Tells Parties
16/05/2001
Without Conservation, Economic Growth Cannot Be Sustained, Secretary-General States
16/05/2001
Secretary-General States That Full Implementation of Mitchell Report Recommendations Could Help Restart Middle East Peace Negotiations
16/05/2001
Secretary-General Welcomes Conclusion of Provisional Self-government Agreement in Kosovo
15/05/2001
- Need for Parity Among All Official UN Languages Stressed, as Committee on Information Concludes Session
15/05/2001
Integrated, Regional Approach Needed to Counter Instability, Insecurity in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea, Security Council Told
15/05/2001
Secretary-General, in Message to Conference of States Parties to Chemical Weapons Convention, Urges Swift Implementation of Treaty Provisions
15/05/2001
At Inaugural Ceremony of Third United Nations Conference on Least Developed Countries, Secretary-General Says Conference May Be ’Last Chance of Better ’Life for 600 Million People
15/05/2001
’Best ’Hope for Least Developed Countries Would Be New Round of Global Trade Negotiations, Secretary-General Tells Special Event on Poverty Eradication
15/05/2001
Secretary-General Welcomes Formation of National Unity Government in Former Yugolsav Republic of Macedonia
15/05/2001
In Brussels, Secretary-General Urges Non-governmental Organizations to Campaign for Genuinely Open Markets
14/05/2001
Third UN Conference on Least Developed Countries in Brussels, 14 - 20 May; to Confront Economic Isolation of "Poorest of the "Poor
14/05/2001
- Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Concludes Twenty-fifth Session; Issues Concluding Observations on Situation in Venezuela, Honduras, Special Administrative Region of Hong Kong, Republic of Korea, Bolivia, and Togo
14/05/2001
Secretary-General Thanks Us President Bush for Commitment to Global Fight Against HIV/AIDS
14/05/2001
Secretary-General Tells Western Asian States They Can Count on His Support in Their Work for Stability, Prosperity and Peace
14/05/2001
Concluding Its Resumed Session, Commission on Status of Women Expresses "Profound "Concern Over Impact of HIV/AIDS
10/05/2001
New Permanent Representative of Tunisia Presents Credentials
10/05/2001
Two United Nations Documentaries Honoured at World Media Festival in Hamburg, Germany; Awards for Documentaries Go to "Armed to the "Teeth and "Legacies of "War
09/05/2001
New Permanent Observer of the Holy See Presents Credentials
09/05/2001
Secretary-General Says Olympic Truce Can Offer Window of Time to Open Dialogue and Pause to Relieve Suffering
08/05/2001
Secretary-General Expresses Profound Sadness at Death of Judge Laity Kama, First President of Rwanda Criminal Tribunal
08/05/2001
Secretary-General Expresses Concern Over Developments in Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
08/05/2001
Greece and Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Meet Under Secretary-General’s Auspices
07/05/2001
Ciba Textiles to Co-sponsor UN Basketball Camp for Kids from Former Yugoslavia
07/05/2001
UN Embraces New Information Technology, but Use of Traditional Mediums Has Not Diminished, Committee on Information Told; Live Radio Broadcasts, Press Releases, Parity in Languages Among Issues Addressed by Interim Head of Public Information Department
07/05/2001
Need for Language Parity Stressed, as Committee on Information Discusses Enhancement of UN Web Site
07/05/2001
Secretary-General Expresses Hope That United States Will Remain Engaged in United Nations Human Rights Work
07/05/2001
Secretary-General Shocked by Light Sentences Handed Down in Indonesian Court Case Concerning Killing of UNHCR Staff
07/05/2001
- Corruption to Be Central Theme of Upcoming UN Crime Commission Meeting; 40-member Body Will Hold 10th Session in Vienna from 8 to 17 May
04/05/2001
United States and UN Begin New Century with Greater Mutual Understanding and Appreciation, Secretary-General Tells Council of American Ambassadors
04/05/2001
In Interconnected World All People Must Have Access to Internet Says Secretary-General, in World Telecommunication Day Message
04/05/2001
Economic and Social Council Elects Members to 18 Organizations; United States Not Re-elected to Human Rights Commission
04/05/2001
Press Freedom Powerful Instrument to Fight Racism, Intolerance Says General Assembly President on World Press Freedom Day
04/05/2001
UN Observance of World Press Freedom Day Focuses on Relation Between Racism and Press Freedom
04/05/2001
Security Council Condemns Illegal Exploitation of Democratic Republic of Congo’s Natural Resources; Following Day-long Debate, Presidential Statement Notes Terrible Toll Conflict Is Taking
04/05/2001
Families, Volunteers Play Indispensable Role in Enriching Community Life, Says Secretary-General on International Day of Families
03/05/2001
United Nations to Hold First Special Session on HIV/AIDS, 25-27 June 2001; Governments Will Convene to Plan Intensified Action to Combat the Global Epidemic
03/05/2001
Widespread Support Expressed in Committee on Information for UN Pilot Project for International Radio Broadcasting
02/05/2001
UN Information Department Should Be Proud of Achievements in Face of Limited Resources, Committee on Information Told at Opening Meeting
02/05/2001
Milos Alcalay Elected as Chairman of Committee on Information
02/05/2001
Bridging Digital Divide Between Industrialized and Developing Countries Stressed in Committee on Information Debate
02/05/2001
Knowledge and Technology for More Sustainable Basis for Development Exist, Secretary-General Tells Bucharest Summit
02/05/2001
Secretary-General Calls for National Leadership and Local Involvement in Fight Against HIV/AIDS, at Conference of Council on Foundations
02/05/2001
Secretary-General Urges Ecosoc and Bretton Woods Bodies to Keep Needs and Aspirations of the Poor at Top of Their Agenda
02/05/2001
Secretary-General Welcomes Israeli Measures in Palestinian Territories, but Says Decisive Aspect Will Be Implementation
02/05/2001
Free Press Can Act as Voice of People Against Tyranny and Oppression, Secretary-General Says in Message on World Press Freedom Day
02/05/2001
Secretary-General Says New Us Defence Policy, Including Plans for Missile Defences, Impacts on Global Security and Strategic Stability
29/06/2001
Secretary-General Welcomes Transfer of Former President Milosevic to International Criminal Tribunal
29/06/2001
Secretary-General Pays Tribute to 2001 Population Award Winners
29/06/2001
Reports from Eight Countries to Be Reviewed at Three-week Session of UN Committee on Elimination of Discrimination Against Women; New York Meeting Will Review Implementation of Convention by Andorra, Guinea, Singapore, Guyana, Netherlands, Viet Nam, Swed
29/06/2001
Economic and Social Council to Hold 2001 Substantive Session, Geneva, 2-27 July
29/06/2001
General Assembly President Calls on Member States to Implement International Agreements on Protection of UN Personnel; Staff Meeting on Security Is Told Message Must Be Sent That Humanitarian Workers Cannot Be Attacked with Impunity
29/06/2001
UNODC Executive Director Appoints New Spokesperson
29/06/2001
Examining Implications of HIV/AIDS for UN Peacekeeping Operations, Council Warns of Potential Risk to Stability, Security; in Presidential Statement S/prst/16, Council President Stresses Pandemic’s Potentially Damaging Impact on ’Peacekeepers H
29/06/2001
Iraq Claims Full Compliance with Security Council Resolutions; Foreign Affairs Minister Says All Obligations Met; Other Speakers, Challenging Assertion, Say Suffering of Iraqi People, Though Regrettable, Is Fault of Government
29/06/2001
Secretary-General, at Staff Security Summit, Urges States to Ratify Treaty on Safety of United Nations and Associated Personnel; Statement Deplores Deaths Since 1992 of Hundreds of Peacekeepers and 200 Civilians; Says Violence Must Not Be Allowed to Dete
28/06/2001
King of Swaziland Describes A "Nation of "Dying as General Assembly Moves to Conclusion of Special Session on HIV/AIDS Pandemic; Many Speakers Echo Concern at Devastation of Disease, Stressing Need for Adequate Funding of Massive Global Action
28/06/2001
With Unanimous Adoption of "Battle "Plan for Fight Against HIV/AIDS, Assembly Concludes Historic Three-day Special Session
28/06/2001
General Assembly President Submits Declaration on AIDS to Member States
28/06/2001
Declaration of Commitment First Global "Battle "Plan Against AIDS, General Assembly President Tells Special Session
28/06/2001
Secretary-General Welcomes Beginnings of Political Dialogue in Central African Republic
28/06/2001
Secretary-General Welcomes Announcement by Revolutionary Armed Forces of Columbia of Release of Soldiers, Police; Underscores Call to Parties to Conclude Agreements on Respect for Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law
28/06/2001
Secretary-General Clarifies Position on Cambodian Government Responsibility for Trials of Former Khmer Rouge Leaders
27/06/2001
Affordable Treatments, Expanded Access to Care, Urgent Need for Resources Are Major Issues as Special Session on HIV/AIDS Continues
27/06/2001
Governments Express Support for Proposed Declaration of Commitment and Global Fund for HIV/AIDS, as General Assembly Special Session Continues Debate; Assembly Secretary Announces That Member States Have Reached Agreement on Draft Declaration of Commitme
27/06/2001
Cricketers Honoured for Anti-drug Campaign; West Indies ’Players Association Receives 2001 Sotiroff Award
27/06/2001
In Security Council Debate, Governments Stress Need to Alleviate Humanitarian Situation in Iraq While Ensuring Full Compliance with Council Resolutions
27/06/2001
Fragile Truce Between Isrealis and Palestinians Must Be Consolidated Without Delay, Says Secretary-General in Message to Islamic Conference of Foreign Ministers
27/06/2001
Secretary-General Presents Nelson Mandela Award for Health, Human Rights to Peter Piot of UNAIDS
27/06/2001
Secretary-General Exhorts Parties to New Efforts for Negotiated Settlement in Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
27/06/2001
"Active Participation of Those Living with HIV/AIDS Is Absolutely "Vital, Secretary-General Says
26/06/2001
Opening Assembly Special Session on AIDS, Secretary-General Sees "Turning Point - AIDS Can No Longer Do Its Work in Dark"; International Gay - Lesbian Human Rights Commission to Participate at Session Roundtable, Despite Opposition from Group O
26/06/2001
AIDS Quilt, Symbolizing Lives Lost to AIDS, Will Strengthen Efforts to Save Lives, Says General Assembly President
26/06/2001
Freedom from Torture "Fundamental Human "Right, Says Secretary-General
26/06/2001
Leadership, Partnership, Solidarity Needed in Fight Against AIDS, Says Secretary-General in Address to General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS
26/06/2001
Secretary-General Calls AIDS Memorial Quilt "A Patchwork of Global "Solidarity
26/06/2001
At London Meeting with Corporate Leaders, Secretary-General Describes Proposal for "Global "Compact with United Nations
25/06/2001
Assembly Fine-tunes Arrangements for Special Session on Children, Disagrees Over NGO Participation in AIDS Round Table; Meeting Is Adjourned Following Procedural Discussion of Participation by Gay-lesbian Group in Next Week’s AIDS Special Session
25/06/2001
- UN Commission on International Trade Law on Assignment of Receivables and Model Law on Electronic Signatures; to Discuss Draft Convention on Assignment of Receivables in International Trade and Model Law on Electronic Signatures
25/06/2001
"Sports Against "Drugs Is Theme of UN Event for Children
25/06/2001
Security Council Examines Input from Recent Mission to Kosovo, Sees Political Commitment of Minorities as Major Challenge
22/06/2001
- General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS, 25-27 June
22/06/2001
Conflict Prevention Must Be Central Pillar of 21 Century Collective Security System, Deputy Secretary-General Tells Council
21/06/2001
UN Special Session on HIV/AIDS Seeks to Spur Massive Global Response to Crisis; Secretary-General’s Call to Action Urges Alliance to Turn Tide in Fight Against AIDS
21/06/2001
Transcript of Press Conference by Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette at Headquarters, 20 June 2001
21/06/2001
International Media Encounter on Question of Palestine Hears Views on Breakingdeadlock in Middle East Peace Process
20/06/2001
Council Exempts Non-lethal Military Equipment from Embargo on Weapons Deliveries to Somalia
20/06/2001
War Less Likely Between Mature Democracies, Says Secretary- General in Lecture at Oxford University; Yet Sometimes Reluctance of Democracies to Fight or Take Risks Can Be Handicap When Action in Just Cause Is Really Needed
20/06/2001
Secretary-General Welcomes Gates Foundation Contribution to Global AIDS Fund
20/06/2001
Security Council Visits Kosovo
20/06/2001
Security Council Expresses Support for Kosovo Women Ngos
20/06/2001
Situation in Kosovo Complex, Volatile, Says Council President, Presenting Report of Council Mission to Yugoslavia
19/06/2001
Lighting the Way in Battle Against Hiv/aids; Secretariat Building to Project Red AIDS Ribbon in Advance of Special Session
19/06/2001
General Assembly President Salutes First World Refugee Day
19/06/2001
"Both Sides Need Help of International "Community, Secretary-General Tells Paris Media Encounter on Palestine
19/06/2001
Refugees "Are the Great Survivors of Our "Time, Says Secretary-General in Salute to World Refugee Day
18/06/2001
Latin American and Caribbean Meeting on Question of Palestine Issues Havana Declaration; NGO Workshop Discusses Action in Solidarity with Palestinian People
18/06/2001
UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space Concludes Forty-fourth Session in Vienna; Discusses Ways and Means of Maintaining Outer Space for Peaceful Purposes
18/06/2001
Success of Multi-ethnicity, Refugee Return Crucial in Bosnia-herzegovina, Council Members Are Told
18/06/2001
Secretary-General Welcomes Release of Political Detainees in Myanmar
18/06/2001
Secretary-General Disturbed by Reports of Anti-civilian Violence, Continued Human Rights Abuses in Afghanistan
15/06/2001
Havana Meeting Supports International Observer Force to Protect Palestinians; Participants Examine UN Activities Regarding Question of Palestine
15/06/2001
"When Right to Education Becomes Norm, Whole World "Gains, General Assembly President Tells Panel on ’Girls Education
15/06/2001
UN Security Council to Visit Kosovo and Belgrade, 15-18 June
14/06/2001
Security Council, Unanimously Adopting Resolution 1353 (2001), Agrees on Strengthening Partnership with Troop-contributing States
14/06/2001
In Message to Latin American Meeting on Palestine, Secretary-General Says "There Can Be No Military Solution to This "Conflict
14/06/2001
Latin American and Caribbean Meeting on Palestine Question Opens in Havana
14/06/2001
Experts Examine Situation in Occupied Palestinian Territory; Speakers Emphasize Role of Israeli Settlements in Hindering Peace Process
14/06/2001
Saluting World Day to Combat Desertification, Drought, Assembly
14/06/2001
DPI to Host International Media Encounter on Question of Palestine in Paris, 18 - 19 June; Search for Peace in Middle East, Role of United Nations to Be Discussed
13/06/2001
Youth Players Selected for ’Basketball Without Borders’; Kraft Foods International and Milka Chocolate Team-up with UN
13/06/2001
UN Outer Space Body to Co-organize A Workshop on "the World Wide Development of Basic Space "Science in Mauritius, 25 - 29 June 2001
13/06/2001
Dennis Macnamara Appointed Deputy Special Representative of Secretary-General for East Timor
13/06/2001
Seretary-General Supports Call for Commitment by All Haitians to Resolve Current Political Crisis
12/06/2001
Countries Most Affected by HIV/AIDS Are Least Able to Pay for Prevention and Treatment; However, Governments Initiating Actions to Confront Challenge
12/06/2001
Deputy Secretary-General Reviews Progress, Setbacks Since 1990 World Summit on Children
11/06/2001
- General Assembly Renews Commitment to Principles of Habitat Agenda, Pledges Accelerated Drive to Ensure Full Implementation; Following All-night Drafting Exercise, Special Session Achieves Consensus on Final Declaration
11/06/2001
Secretary-General Will Visit Middle East Next Week
08/06/2001
Secretary-General, in Message on World Day to Combat Desertification, Warns Livelihood of 1 Billion People in 110 Countries Threatened
07/06/2001
New Permanent Representative of Antigua and Barbuda Presents Credentials
07/06/2001
World Entering "Urban "Millennium, Secretary- General Tells Opening Meeting of Habitat Special Session
07/06/2001
Thematic Committee of General Assembly’s Special Session Examines Right to Adequate Housing in South Africa
07/06/2001
Thematic Committee of General Assembly’s Special Session Examines Right to Adequate Housing in South Africa
07/06/2001
General Assembly President Says Habitat Agenda "Global Call to "Action as Special Session Reviewing Its Implementation Opens at Headquarters
07/06/2001
Costs, Benefits of Globalization Unevenly Distributed in Cities, Says UN Report
07/06/2001
UNV Releases Report on Urban Development for Istanbul + 5
06/06/2001
Global AIDS, Health Fund Operational by Year End
06/06/2001
European Tv Agency to Broadcast United Nations Programmes
06/06/2001
Security Council Ponders Establishment of Sanctions-montoring Mechanism for Afghanistan
06/06/2001
Secretary-General Outlines "Pressing Choices We "Face in Managing Global Environment
06/06/2001
Secretary-General Stresses Partnership, Urban Governance, Secure Tenure to General Assembly Special Session Reviewing 1996 Habitat Agenda
06/06/2001
Secretary-General, in "Local Government "Day Remarks, Outlines Areas in Which United Nations, Local Authorities Can Work Together
05/06/2001
Security Council Extends Provision of Iraq ’Oil-for-food Programme, Unanimously Adopting Resolution 1352 (2001)
05/06/2001
Secretary-General Appoints Stephen Lewis as Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa
05/06/2001
In Address at Awards Banquet of Global Health Council, Secretary-General Outlines Strategies for Combating HIV/AIDS
05/06/2001
Secretary-General Urges United States Business Leaders to Take Concerted Action Against "Unparalleled "Nightmare of AIDS
05/06/2001
Secretary-General Urges Swifter Approval of Applications for Contracts Submitted Under Humanitarian Programme for Iraq
05/06/2001
Twentieth Anniversary of First Clinical Evidence of AIDS May Be "Year We Turned the "Tide, Says Secretary-General
05/06/2001
High Commissioner for Human Rights Names Natacha Atlas Goodwill Ambassador for Conference Against Racism
05/06/2001
Toni Kukoc Headlines "Basketball Without "Borders Team; Johnson & Johnson Will Co-sponsor Basketball Camp
05/06/2001
UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space to Hold Forty-fourth Session in Vienna, 6-15 June 2001; to Discuss Ways and Means of Maintaining Outer Space for Peaceful Purposes
05/06/2001
United Nations Latin American and Caribbean Meeting on Question of Palestine, Havana, 12-13 June
01/06/2001
New Permanent Representative of Venezuela Presents Credentials
01/06/2001
General Assembly Adopts Third Additional Protocol -- on Firearms -- to Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime; Also Approves Extension of Mandate of UN High Commissioner for Human Rights; Adopts Text on Protection of Religious Sites
01/06/2001
Saluting World No-tobacco Day, General Assembly President Warns of Hazards from Second-hand Smoke
01/06/2001
Tentative Schedule of Meetings of United Nations Bodies in June 2001
01/06/2001
Secretary-General Welcomes Launch of First Volume in New UN History Series
31/07/2001
Bonn Decisions Promise to Speed Action on Climate Change
31/07/2001
Committee on Elimination of Racial Discrimination Opens Fifty-ninth Session
31/07/2001
Human Rights Committee Concludes Secenty-second Session
31/07/2001
Security Council Hears Arguments for Strong Post-independence International Presence in East Timor
31/07/2001
Security Council Requests Secretary-General to Establish Mechanism for Monitoring Sanctions Against Taliban; Unanimously Adopts Resolution 1363 (2001)
30/07/2001
- Economic and Social Council Suspends 2001 Substantive Session; Four Weeks of Meetings Focused on Bolstering Development Efforts of African Countries, Information Technology Transfer, Disaster Relief
30/07/2001
First Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues to Meet in New York in May 2002
30/07/2001
- World Youth Forum of UN System to Meet in Dakar, 6-10 August; Meeting Will Identify New Opportunities for Empowering Youth
27/07/2001
- Ecosoc Adjourns Substantive Session; Adopts Resolutions on Genetic Privacy, Colonial Peoples, HIV/AIDS, Tourism Ethics, Disaster Reduction, Other Topics
27/07/2001
Preparations for Kosovo Elections in November Have Progressed, Security Council Told; More than 25 Political Parties Expected to Participate
27/07/2001
Secretary-General Condemns Attack by Tamil Tigers on Colombo Airport
26/07/2001
Assembly Authorizes Secretary-General to Establish Monitors for Fiji Elections
26/07/2001
Press Statement on Burundi by Security Council President
25/07/2001
Security Council, Briefed by Special Representative for Drc, Calls on All Parties to Cooperate Fully with Monuc; Presidential Statement Voices Concern Over Activities of Armed Groups in East
25/07/2001
Secretary-General Appoints Miles Stoby Assistant Secretary-General for General Assembly Affairs, Conference Services
25/07/2001
Peace Process in Drc Not Yet Irreversible, Secretary-General Tells Security Council
24/07/2001
New Permanent Representative of Austria Presents Credentials
24/07/2001
Ecosoc Discusses Follow-up to World Conferences, Summits, Revitalization of Work in Economic, Social Fields
24/07/2001
Governments Adopt Bonn Agreement on Kyoto Protocol Rules
24/07/2001
- - Not for Use Before 9 A.m. Est - Wednesday, 25 July 2001 Secretary-General Lauds Move to Strengthen Biological Weapons Convention; Measures Under Review to Monitor Implementation, Verify Compliance
24/07/2001
Secretary-General Welcomes Bonn Agreements on Emission Limitation
23/07/2001
- Small Arms Conference Concludes with Consensus Adoption of Action Programme; Conference President, Calling Compromise Text ’Significant Step ’Forward, Disappointed at Failure to Agree on Controls Over Private Ownership, Transfers
23/07/2001
Security Council Committee Established Pursuant to Resolution 751 (1992) Concerning Situation in Somalia Adopts New Consolidated Guidelines
23/07/2001
Secretary-General Thanks G-8 Leaders for Extraordinary Expression of Support in Fight Against AIDS
23/07/2001
Secretary-General Congratulates Conference on ’Important First ’Steps to Combat Small-arms Scourge
23/07/2001
UN Survey Confirms Continuing Decrease in Opium Poppy Cultuvation in Lao People’s Democratic Republic; Trend Said to Confirm Success of Global Drug Control Plans Adopted by 1998 Special Session of General Assembly
20/07/2001
New Permanent Representative of Yugoslavia Presents Credentials
20/07/2001
Press Statement by Security Council President on Afghanistan
20/07/2001
Major General Hermann K. Loidolt Appointed Chief Military Observer in United Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan
19/07/2001
Ecosoc Concludes High-level Segment on Sustainable Development in Africa; Adopts Ministerial Declaration Expressing Concern About Health Crisis Affecting Africa, Urging UN to Help African Countries Manage External Debt
18/07/2001
Security Council Expresses Concern Over Situation in Central African Republic, Condemns Recent Killing of UN Security Coordinator
18/07/2001
Press Statement by Security Council President on Burundi
18/07/2001
Secretary-General Urges Pakistan, India to Persevere in Efforts to Establish Dialogue
18/07/2001
Both Sides Must Make Every Effort to Restore Ceasefire, Secretary-General Tells Madrid Meeting on Middle East
17/07/2001
UN Commission on International Trade Law Concludes Thirty-fourth Session in Vienna; Discusses Draft Convention on Assignment of Receivables in International Trade and Model Law on Electronic Signatures
17/07/2001
In Geneva Address to 2001 Substantive Session of Ecosoc, Secretary-General Sees Possible "Turning Point in Africa’s "History
17/07/2001
Secretary-General Strongly Deplores Abduction of Former Colombian Official, Demands His Immediate Release
16/07/2001
Central Role of General Assembly in Dealing with Conflicts Stressed, as Debate on Secretary-General’s Report Is Concluded
16/07/2001
UN International Meeting on Question of Palestine, Madrid, 17-18 July, Plus Un/ngo Meeting in Solidarity with Palestinian People, 19 July
16/07/2001
Secretary-General, Accepting Honorary Degree from Berlin’s Freie Universität, Stresses "Corporate "Citizenship
13/07/2001
Deputy Secretary-General Pays Tribute on Death of Humayun Choudhury of Bangladesh, Former President of UN General Assembly
13/07/2001
International Community Has Moral Responsibility to Ensure That Vulnerable People Are Protected, Says Deputy Secretary- General; Introduces Secretary-General’s Report on Prevention of Armed Conflict
13/07/2001
"Time Has Come to Translate Rhetoric of Conflict Prevention Into Concrete "Action, Deputy Secretary-General Tells General Assembly; Assembly Considers Secretary-General’s Report on Prevention of Armed Conflict
13/07/2001
UN Environment Chief Tells Parties to Forthcoming Conference Long-term Response Needed to Climate Change Challenge
12/07/2001
- Not for Use Before 12:01 A.m. (gmt) Friday, 13 July 2001 United Nations Sees Slow Recovery in 2001
12/07/2001
Press Statement by Security Council President on Somalia
12/07/2001
Secretary-General Strongly Urges Israeli Authorities to Halt Demolition of Palestinian Homes
12/07/2001
Secretary-General Initiates Investigation Concerning Unifil Videotape
11/07/2001
Press Statement by Security Council President on Situation in Guinea-bissau
11/07/2001
Secretary-General Pays Tribute to New Secretary-General of Organization of African Unity
10/07/2001
Secretary-General Evokes Promise Inherent in Launch of African Union
10/07/2001
Secretary-General Calls for End to "Scourge of Illegal Small-arms Proliferation
10/07/2001
Deputy Secretary-General Calls for "Strongest "Possible Action Programme from Small Arms Conference
10/07/2001
Secretary-General Recalls Dag Hammmarskjöld on Fortieth Anniversary of His Death
10/07/2001
Secretary-General Urges Integrated Approach to Slowing Population Growth
09/07/2001
- Human Rights Committee to Hold Seventy-second Session at Geneva from 9 to 27 July; Experts to Examine Reports of Netherlands, Czech Republic, Monaco, Guatemala and Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
09/07/2001
Under-secretary-General for Legal Affairs Speech on the Occasion of the UN Commission on International Trade Law 34 Session
09/07/2001
Press Statement by Security Council President on Central African Republic
09/07/2001
Press Statement by Security Council President on Democratic Republic of Congo
09/07/2001
Secretary-General Says Recent Offensives in Sudan Cause "Massive "Disruption
06/07/2001
- Conference on Small Arms Set to Convene at Headquarters, 9 - 20 July
06/07/2001
Security Council Sets 12 October as Date for Election to Fill Vacancy on International Court of Justice
06/07/2001
Bonds Between United States and United Nations Are Strong and Rooted in Common Vision of Freedom and Opportunity for All, Says Secretary-General
06/07/2001
Secretary-General Urges Israeli Government to Cease "Targeted "Assassinations
06/07/2001
Request for Videotape by Israeli Minister of Defence
04/07/2001
Security Council Extends Provisions of Resolution 986 Authorizing Import of Iraqi Petroleum and Petroleum Products; Unanimously Adopts Resolution 1360 (2001) Calling for Continued Priority Allocation of Sales Proceeds to Nutrition and Health Sectors
03/07/2001
UNODC Presents Global Illicit Drug Trends 2001
03/07/2001
- Kofi A. Annan, United Nations Secretary-General
03/07/2001
Secretary-General Urges Mideast Parties to Exercise Maximum Restraint
03/07/2001
Secretary-General Presents Fdr International Disability Award to Thailand
02/07/2001
General Assembly Adopts Security Council Recommendation to Appoint Kofi Annan to Further Term as Secretary-General; Decision Taken by Acclamation; Delegates Laud Performance During First Term, Express Optimism for Continued Service
02/07/2001
Assembly President Congratulates Secretary-General upon Appointment to Second Term of Office; Kofi Annan Said to Offer "Leadership with Vision and "Wisdom Needed as United Nations Strives to Meet Challenges in Many Fields
02/07/2001
Tentative Schedule of Meetings of United Nations Bodies in July 2001
02/07/2001
Cooperatives Are Significant Actors in Development, Says Secretary-General
02/07/2001
Secretary-General Vows Continued Efforts to Make United Nations as Effective as Possible in Service to Mankind; Statement After Reappointment by General Assembly Cites Continuing Challenges, Takes Special Note of This Week’s Action on HIV/AIDS Crisi
02/07/2001
Secretary-General, Reporting Initiative on Prevention of Armed Conflict, Notes Trend towards Discord within States; Maputo Conference Is Told Wars Between Countries Are No Longer Main Preoccupation; Focus on Economic and Social Development Is Stressed
31/08/2001
UN Outer Space Body to Hold Expert Meeting on Regional Centres for Space Science and Technology Education, Affiliated to the United Nations, and Their Education Curricula; Frascati, Italy, 3-7 September 2001
31/08/2001
Security Council Expresses Commitment to Pursue Conflict Prevention "by All Appropriate Means"; Unanimously Adopts Resolution 1366 (2001)
31/08/2001
Troops Withdrawals and Impending Dialogue Mean Improvements in Democratic Republic of Congo, Security Council Told; but Concerns Remain Over Fighting in East and Human Rights Violations
31/08/2001
Secretary-General Calls on Ngos to Create Worldwide Anti-racism Movement
31/08/2001
Secretary-General Calls East Timor Elections "A Glowing Example to World "Community
31/08/2001
Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Myanmar Confirms All Parties Still Committed to National Reconciliation
31/08/2001
Secretary General Expresses Support for World Food Summit
31/08/2001
Secretary-General’s Personal Representative for Western Sahara Meets Representatives of Polisario, Algeria, Mauritania in Wyoming
31/08/2001
The Vienna International Centre (vic) Child Care Centre Opens
30/08/2001
Secretary-General Appoints Chen Jian Under-secretary-General for General Assembly Affairs and Conference Services
30/08/2001
Activities of Secretary-General in Austria, 25-28 August
30/08/2001
UN Secretary-General and High Commissioner for Human Rights to Host Global Compact Dialogue; Theme Is "Discrimination Is Everybody’s "Business
30/08/2001
Press Statement by Security Council President on Afghanistan
29/08/2001
New Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom Presents Credentials
29/08/2001
New Permanent Representative of Macedonia Presents Credentials
29/08/2001
Secretary-General of Racism Conference Urges NGO Forum to "Engage Every Sector of "Society in Struggle Against Intolerance
29/08/2001
Dialogue Among Civilizations Roundtable Concludes with "Salzburg "Reflections
29/08/2001
Council Members Concerned About Low Voter Registration of Minorities for Kosovo-wide Elections; Support Also Expressed for Lifting of Arms Embargo Against Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
29/08/2001
Secretary-General, in Salzburg, Stresses Link Between Dialogue Among Civilizations, Durban Conference Against Racism
29/08/2001
Secretary-General Meets H.e. Rauf Denktash in Ongoing Effort for Resumption of Cyprus Talks
28/08/2001
New Permanent Representative of Hungary Presents Credentials
28/08/2001
New Permanent Representative of Israel Presents Credentials
28/08/2001
High Commissioner for Human Rights Expresses Confidence on Outcome of World Racism Conference
28/08/2001
High Commissioner for Human Rights Asks Young People to Pledge to Promote Equality, Justice and Dignity, at Conclusion of Durban Youth Summit
28/08/2001
Statement of the Spokesman of the Secretary-General
28/08/2001
- Background Release World Conference Against Racism to Open in Durban, South Africa on 31 August
28/08/2001
Secretary-General Welcomes Agreement to Start Inter- Congolese Dialogue
27/08/2001
Secretary-General’s Special Envoy to Visit Myanmar to Facilitate Talks, 27-30 August
27/08/2001
New Permanent Representative of Italy Presents Credentials
27/08/2001
- Background Release Road to UN Special Session on Children
27/08/2001
Press Statement by Security Council President on Burundi
23/08/2001
Countdown to East Timor Elections
23/08/2001
East Timor: Good News Need Not Be No News
22/08/2001
Un-secretary-General Attends "Dialogue Among "Civilizations Roundtable in Austria; Meeting with Austrian Chancellor and Austrian Foreign Minister
22/08/2001
Statement to Press by President of Security Council on Somalia
22/08/2001
As Security Council Concludes Mideast Debate, Speakers Urge Action Before Situation Becomes Unmanageable
21/08/2001
Record Number of Children to Be Delegates at Upcoming UN Special Session General Assembly Special Session Will Also Break Records with Ngos
21/08/2001
Implementation of Mitchell Recommendations Stressed as Only Hope for Return to Middle East Peace Process
21/08/2001
Secretary-General Calls for Democratic Governance at Global Level
20/08/2001
- Round-up Committee on Elimination of Racial Discrimination Concludes Fifty-ninth Sessionissues Concluding Recommendations on Reports of Italy, China, Trinidad and Tobago, Cyprus, United States, Sri Lanka, Viet Nam, Ukraine, Egypt
20/08/2001
Secretary-General Says Taliban’s Denial of Consular Access to Detainees Could Have Consequences for Humanitarian Assistance
20/08/2001
Secretary-General Hopes 20 August Meeting in Botswana Will Pave Way for Inter-congolese Dialogue
17/08/2001
UN Disarmament Yearbook 2000 Highlights Positive and Negative Trends During Millennium Year
17/08/2001
Un/usa Workshop on the Use of Global Navigation Satellite Systems Co-organized and Hosted by the Government of Malaysia; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 20-24 August 2001
17/08/2001
Press Statement by Security Council President on Liberia
17/08/2001
Press Statement by Security Council President on Angola
15/08/2001
Secretary-General Salutes Thirtieth Anniversary of Pacific Islands Forum
14/08/2001
Security Council Calls for "Full and "Immediate Implementation of Agreement in Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
14/08/2001
Lieutenant-General Winai Phattiyakul Appointed Force Commander of UN Transitional Administration in East Timor
14/08/2001
Secretary-General Urges End to Israeli Occupation of Orient House, Other Properties
14/08/2001
Secretary-General Calls on All Parties in Fyrom to Implement Framework Agreement "in Good "Faith
14/08/2001
- Round-up World Youth Forum of UN System Concludes After Adopting Dakar Youth Empowerment Strategy; Delegates from 85 Countries Call for Increased Cooperation with UN Agencies
13/08/2001
Media Arrangements for World Conference Against Racism, Durban, 31 August - 7 September
13/08/2001
Secretary-General Appoints Miles Stoby Assistant Secretary-General for General Assembly Affairs and Conference Service
13/08/2001
UN Looks Forward to Receiving New Cambodian Law on Khmer Rouge Trials, Secretary-General’s Spokesman States
10/08/2001
In Statement to Preparatory Committee of Racism Conference, Human Rights Commissioner Mary Robinson Reviews Progress
10/08/2001
Appointment of Special Rapporteur for Indigenous People "A "Watershed, Says Human Rights Commissioner Robinson
10/08/2001
Press Statement on Sierra Leone by Security Council President
10/08/2001
Alarmed at Escalating Mid-east Violence, Secretary-General Calls on Israelis, Palestinians to Exercise Restraint
09/08/2001
Record Number of Leaders to Attend UN Special Session on Children; 75 Heads of State Confirmed for Special Session of General Assembly
09/08/2001
High Commissioner for Human Rights to Address Global Audience Over Internet in Lead-up to World Conference Against Racism
09/08/2001
World Youth Forum Opens Fourth Session in Dakar; Youth Delegates, UN Representatives Begin Debate on Special Concerns, Challenges of Young Men and Women
08/08/2001
At Estonia Seminar, General Assembly President Discusses Role of International Organizations in Coping with Cultural Conflicts
08/08/2001
General Asssembly President’s Message for International Day of World’s Indigenous People
08/08/2001
Secretary-General Appoints Major General Lalit Mohan Tewari Force Commander of Unifil
08/08/2001
Saluting International Youth Day, Secretary-General Stresses Fight Against AIDS, Unemployment
07/08/2001
Secretary-General Appeals for End to "Cycle of "Violence in Mid-east
07/08/2001
Secretary-General Urges World ’Mayors Conference to Make Technology Work "for Common "Good
07/08/2001
Secretary-General Calls for Renewed Vow Never to Repeat Hiroshima/ Nagasaki Tragedies
07/08/2001
Secretary-General’s Message on International Day of World’s Indigenous Peoples, 9 August
06/08/2001
Secretary-General’s Statement on Investigation of Middle East Video
06/08/2001
UN Meeting Sets Stage for Negotiating New Treaty Against Corruption
06/08/2001
Fourth Committee Concludes Fifty-fifth Session, Approves Peacekeeping Committee Report
06/08/2001
First Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues to Meet in New York in May 2002
06/08/2001
Secretary-General Appoints Dysane Abdallah Dorani Director of United Nations Information Centre in Cairo
03/08/2001
Leading International Figures Meet in Geneva in Support of World Conference on Racism
03/08/2001
In Wake of Assembly Conference on Small Arms, Security Council Examines Its Role in Implementation of Action Programme; Secretary-General Expresses Concern Over Lack of Binding Norms for Small Arms, Light Weapons
03/08/2001
Secretary-General Names Amos Ngongi (cameroon) as Special Representative for Democratic Republic of Congo
03/08/2001
No Country Immune from Threat of Small Arms, Secretary-General Tells Security Council
03/08/2001
Secretary-General’s Good Offices on Cyprus
02/08/2001
From Rhetoric to Action: Assembly Urges All Relevant Actors to Examine Secretary-General’s Recommendations on Conflict Prevention
01/08/2001
Security Council Extends Unifil Mandate for Six Months, to 31 January 2002
01/08/2001
Durban Conference on Racism Must Confront Past, Set New Course Against Future Racism; It Must Heal Old Wounds Without Reopening Them
01/08/2001
Children’s Special Session in September to Cap Year of Major UN Conferences; A Fitting Finale Will Focus on "Changing the World with "Children
01/08/2001
Tentative Schedule of Meetings of United Nations Bodies in August
01/08/2001
Security Council Extends Unomig Mandate Until 31 January 2001
28/09/2001
Social, Humanitarian Committee Elects Vice-chairmen, Rapporteur; Adopts Work Programme
27/09/2001
Unanimously Adopting Resolution 1371 on Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Security Council Again Rejects Violence in Pursuit of Political Aims
27/09/2001
Security Council Notes Secretary-General’s Intention to Extend UN Office in Central African Republic Through 2002
27/09/2001
Installation of Burundi’s Transitional Government on 1 November "Turning "Point in Peace Process Says Security Council
27/09/2001
Press Statement on Cyprus by President of Security Council
27/09/2001
Secretary-General Welcomes Meeting Between Israel, Palestinians; Hopes Result Is Sustainable Dialogue, End to Violence
27/09/2001
For Peace Rector Says World Shaken, Changed by Terrorist Attack; International Response Should Be Carefully Measured, Precisely Focused
27/09/2001
Assembly Concludes Debate on Report of Secretary-General with Reiterated Calls for Action to Combat Terrorism
27/09/2001
The Secretary-General: Message on the International Day of Older Persons - 1 October 2001
26/09/2001
United Nations Role Essential in "Moral "Imperative of Preventing Conflict General Assembly Told, as Debate Continues on Secretary- General’s Report
26/09/2001
Poverty Reduction, Terrorism, Disarmament, Humanitarian Relief Discussed as General Assembly Continues Review of Secretary-General Report
26/09/2001
UNRWA Faces $31 Million Budget Crisis
26/09/2001
Donor Countries to Take up Unrwa’s Access Problems with Israel
26/09/2001
Of Civilian Afghan Population Desperate, Says Secretary- General; Those Deliberately Withholding Food and Attacking Relief Workers Will Be Held Responsible
26/09/2001
Pleased by United States Congress Decision to Authorize Dues Payment of $582 Million
25/09/2001
In Afghanistan, A Population in Crisis
25/09/2001
Attack on United States Aimed at Shared Values United Nations Stands for, Says Secretary-General, Introducing Annual Report to General Assembly
25/09/2001
Debating Report of Secretary-General on Work of Organization, Speakers Focus on Fight Against International Terrorism; Peacekeeping, Inter-agency Coordination, Development Also Stressed
25/09/2001
UN and Iaf to Hold Workshop on Space Applications for Sustainable Development in France, 27-29 September 2001
25/09/2001
Secretary-General Meets Chrispus Kiyonga, Chairman of Transitional Working Group on Global AIDS and Health Fund
25/09/2001
Secretary-General Urges Assembly to Respond to 11 September Attacks by Reaffirming Rule of Law
25/09/2001
Secretary-General Says Closed Israeli Military Zone in Occupied Palestinian Territory "Can Only "Undermine Peace Efforts
25/09/2001
Secretary-General, Marking World Habitat Day, Urges Implementation of Millennium Goals for Slum-dwellers
24/09/2001
Speakers Address "Digital "Divide, Inequities in Globalization, as Dialogue on International Economic Cooperation Continues
24/09/2001
Importance of Humanizing Globalization Stressed, as General Assembly High-level Dialogue on Economic Cooperation Concludes
24/09/2001
Uniting Against Terrorism by UN Secretary-General Kofi A. Annan
24/09/2001
Security Council Briefing on Bosnia and Herzegovina Highlights Progress in Forming State Institutions, Economic Difficulties; High Representative, Special Representative Address Council
24/09/2001
Security Council, Reviewing Report of Secretary-General, Debates Strengthening UN Office in Central African Republic
24/09/2001
Press Statement on Terrorism by President of Security Council
21/09/2001
New Permanent Representative of Bangladesh Presents Credentials
21/09/2001
Deputy Secretary-General, Addressing High-level Dialogue on Cooperation for Development, Urges New "Development Round of Trade Negotiations
21/09/2001
In Remarks to Carnegie Council, Deputy Secretary-General Discusses Myth, Reality in Global Fight Against HIV/AIDS
21/09/2001
International Economic Cooperation Dialogue Opens at Headquarters; Focus on Integrating Developing Countries Into World Economy
21/09/2001
In Presidential Statement on Angola, Security Council Strongly Condemns Terrorist Attacks by Unita
21/09/2001
Report of Secretary-General on Work of Organization
20/09/2001
United Nations Treaties Against International Terrorism
20/09/2001
True Faith Is Respectful, Compassionate, Devoid of Hatred, Says Secretary-General at Temple Emanu-el in New York
19/09/2001
Palestinian Rights Committee Elects New Chairman, Reviews Recent Mideast Developments
19/09/2001
Multimedia Web Site Launched in Commemoration of Fortieth Anniversary of Dag Hammarskjöld’s Death
19/09/2001
Security Council Adopts Report to General Assembly
19/09/2001
Press Statement on Afghanistan by Security Council President
19/09/2001
Secretary-General Welcomes Resumption of Inter-korean Dialogue
19/09/2001
Secretary-General, in Message to Mine-ban Convention Parties, Evokes "Enormous Challenges Still Ahead
19/09/2001
True Faith Is Respectful, Compassionate, Devoid of Hatred, Says Secretary-General at Temple Emanu-el in New York
18/09/2001
General Committee Recommends 188-item General Assembly Agenda, Including Proposal for Convention Against Human Cloning; "Republic of China on "Taiwan Not Recommended for Inclusion
18/09/2001
Press Statement on Federal Republic of Yugoslavia by President of Security Council
18/09/2001
Secretary-General Hopes Commitment by President Arafat Will Lead to Cessation of Violence
18/09/2001
Nuclear Disarmament Progress Even More Important After Terrorist Attack on United States Says Secretary-General to Atomic Energy Agency Meeting
18/09/2001
Secretary-General Saddened by Assassination of Key Afghan Leader, Says Act of Terrorism Further Complicates Efforts to End Conflict
17/09/2001
Han Seung-soo of Republic of Korea Elected President of Fifty-sixth General Assembly Session
17/09/2001
Secretary-General’s Message to the Forty-fifth General Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency; Vienna, 17 September, 2001
17/09/2001
Host Country in Mourning, but with Its Spirit Intact, Secretary-General Tells United Nations Staff
17/09/2001
Peace A Dream Deferred This Year, Secretary-General Remarks at Peace Bell Ceremony
17/09/2001
"Our Place Is Beside Those in "Distress, Secretary-General Tells Staff at Special Meeting for Terror Victims
14/09/2001
Hasmy Agam of Malaysia Elected Chairman of Fourth Committee
14/09/2001
Pierre Lelong of Haiti Elected Chairman of Sixth Committee
14/09/2001
General Assembly Elects 21 Vice-presidents, Main ’Committees Chairpersons
14/09/2001
We Must Have Faith in Each Other, Secretary-General Tells Interfaith Service
14/09/2001
Nana Effah-apenteng of Ghana Elected Chairman of Fifth Committee
14/09/2001
André Erdos of Hungary Elected Chairman of First Committee
14/09/2001
Francisco Seixas Da Costa of Portugal Elected Chairman of Second Committee
14/09/2001
Fuad Mubarak Al-hinai of Oman Elected Chairman of Third Committee
13/09/2001
Opening Its Fifty-sixth Session, General Assembly Condemns Heinous Acts of Terrorism Perpetrated in Host City and Washington
13/09/2001
Head of UN Crime Prevention Office Calls for A ’New Level of ’Cooperation in Facing Terrorism
13/09/2001
Security Council Condemns, ’in Strongest ’Terms, Terrorist Attacks on United States
13/09/2001
Kofi A. Annan, United Nations Secretary-General
13/09/2001
Secretary-General Addresses Parliamentarians on Children and HIV/AIDS
13/09/2001
Secretary-General Condemns Terrorist Attack on United States ’in Strongest Possible ’Terms
13/09/2001
United Nations Needs Support of All Religions, Secretary-General Tells Annual Pre-assembly Religious Service
13/09/2001
Words Alone Inadequate as Response to Terrorist Attacks, Secretary-General Tells Opening of Fifty-sixth General Assembly
13/09/2001
Secretary-General Pays Tribute to Founder/president of World Economic Forum
13/09/2001
Secretary-General Urges Delegates to Take up Children’s Issue Soon, Despite Special Session Postponed
13/09/2001
UN Vienna Staff Observes A Moment of Silence for Victims of Terrorist Attacks
12/09/2001
Press Statement by Security Council President on Terrorist Attacks in United States
12/09/2001
Secretary-General Condemns Terrorist Attacks on the United States
11/09/2001
New Permanent Observer of Switzerland Presents Credentials
11/09/2001
Deputy Secretary-General, Accepting Honorary Degree from University of Turin, Outlines Challenges of Globalizing Era
11/09/2001
Assembly President Calls for Integrated Approach to Work of United Nations, as He Closes Fifty-fifth Assembly Session
11/09/2001
General Assembly President Stresses Role of Civil Society in Millennium Follow-up Process
11/09/2001
Security Council Hears Details of Free and Fair Elections in East Timor
11/09/2001
Security Council Welcomes Successful East Timor Elections
11/09/2001
Message from Secretary-General on International Day of Peace; 11 September 2001
11/09/2001
Secretary-General Focuses on AIDS, Poverty, Protection of Environment in Speech to Ngos
10/09/2001
New Permanent Representative of Rwanda Presents Credentials
10/09/2001
With Conclusion of Fifty-fifth Session Impending, General Assembly Acts on Remaining Agenda Items; Texts Adopted Include Issue of Chemical Weapons, Culture of Peace, Decade to Roll Back Malaria in Africa
10/09/2001
Committee on Information Approves Draft Resolution Which Will Expand UN Radio’s Capacity, as It Concludes Resumed Twenty-third Session
10/09/2001
- Round-up Call to Eradicate Discrimination and Intolerance Marks Conclusion of World Conference Against Racism; Agrees on Need for Remedial Measures; Urges End to Middle East Violence
10/09/2001
Secretary-General’s Message for International Day for Preservation of Ozone Layer
10/09/2001
Secretary-General Expresses Regret That Turkish Cypriot Leader Cannot Attend New York Talks
10/09/2001
Statement by Secretary-General on Conclusion of World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance
07/09/2001
Fifty-fourth Dpi-ngo Conference to Be Held at Headquarters, 10-12 September
07/09/2001
Press Statement by Security Council President on Iraq
07/09/2001
Hammarskjöld’s Core Ideas Remain Vaild in New International Context, Secretary-General Explains in Memorial Lecture
06/09/2001
Committee on Information Discusses Secretary-General’s Report on Implementation of Pilot UN Radio Project; New Wording Proposed for Draft Text on Establishment of Permanent Broadcasting Capacity
06/09/2001
Security Council Welcomes Success on Preparatory Meeting for Inter-congolese Dialogue
05/09/2001
Football Against Racism by UNIS Vienna and the Max.bundesliga and the First Division
05/09/2001
Workplace One of Frontlines in Fight Against Discrimination, Secretary-General Tells Global Compact Event
05/09/2001
Secretary-General Urges Countries at Racism Conference to "Stay the "Course Following Israel, Us Withdrawal
05/09/2001
Message of Secretary-General to Conference on Mongolia - UN Cooperation
05/09/2001
Hailing International Literacy Day (8 September), Secretary- General Urges Recommitment to Cause of Literacy for All
05/09/2001
Secretary-General, Rejecting Australian Proposal for East Timor Processing of Afghan Refugees, Says UNHCR Plan "Remains "Viable
03/09/2001
General Assembly President Encourages Conference to Work Hard to Make Outcome A Landmark for Further Action Against Racism
03/09/2001
Focus on Fundamental Aims, New Strategies Needed to Fight Racism, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Tells Conference
03/09/2001
Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Concludes Twenty-sixth Session; Releases Observations and Recommendations on Senegal, Syrian Arab Republic, Panama, Ukraine, Japan, Nepal, Germany and Israel
03/09/2001
President of United Nations Security Council and Chairman of Military Staff Committee in September
03/09/2001
Council Makes Presidential Statement on Importance of, Responsibilities for, Addressing Question of Small Arms
03/09/2001
As Security Council Reviews Its Work for Month of August, Several Speakers Deplore "Inaction on Mid-east
03/09/2001
Secretary-General Urges Conference to Meet World’s Expectations with Call for Action to Combat Racism; Must Banish from New Century Hatred and Prejudice of Past
03/09/2001
Secretary-General Urges Leaders to Guide National Dialogue on Racism
03/09/2001
Taliban Actions Against Aid Community Threat to International Humanitarian Assistance, Secretary-General Warns
03/09/2001
Mary Robinson, Secretary-General, World Conference Against Racism
31/10/2001
"We Must Do Much Better to Bridge Gap Between Rich and "Poor, Says Deputy Secretary-General in Address at Queens University
31/10/2001
Ismat Kittani "Brought Skill and Judgement to Any Assignment, No Matter How "Sensitive, Says Deputy Secretary-General at Memorial Service
31/10/2001
General Assembly Is Told Proliferation of Tribunals May Be Risk to Unity of International Law; Report of World Court Discussed; Speakers Note Need for Extra Resources to Cope with Increasing Workload
31/10/2001
General Assembly, Reviewing Security Council Reform, Is Told to End Speechmaking, Begin Analysis of Possible Models; Membership, Veto Powers Remain Contentious Issues; Delegates Call for Body More Representative of Modern World
31/10/2001
European Union Questions Relevance of Human Resources Management Debate in View of Non-issuance of Important Reports
31/10/2001
Terrorist Use of Nuclear Weapons, Biological Weapons Convention Review Among Issues Addressed by 14 Texts Introduced in First Committee
31/10/2001
Urgent Steps to Reduce Risk of Accidental Use of Nuclear Weapons Called for in Draft Resolution Approved by First Committee; Ten Resolutions, Two Decisions Approved; Issues Addressed Include Convention Banning Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear-weapon-free Zones
31/10/2001
Stable Financing Needed for Smooth Functioning of Indigenous ’Peoples Forum, Third Committee Told; Committee Also Hears Statements of Seven Draft Resolutions on Women’s Issues, Two on Crime
31/10/2001
Press Statement by Security Council President on Middle East
30/10/2001
Fifth Committee Is Urged to Ensure Provision of Resources Needed for Reform of United Nations Peacekeeping Operations; Report Endorses 129 New Posts, After Secretary-General’s Request for 216; Expeditious Action to Fill Them Is Called for
30/10/2001
Mediterranean Security, Arms Transparency, Regional Disarmament Centres Addressed by Five Draft Texts Introduced in First Committee
30/10/2001
As Second Committee Begins Consideration of Environment, Sustainable Development, Speakers Look Ahead to Johannesburg Summit
30/10/2001
Council Endorses Member State Drive to Implement Arusha Agreement, Supports Interim Multinational Security Presence in Burundi
30/10/2001
Secretary-General Expresses "Utter "Repugnance at Murder of Worshippers in Pakistan Church
30/10/2001
Philippines Government Launches A National Action Plan Against Trafficking in Human Beings; Joint Un-philippines Initiative Leads to Strong Coalition of Government Agencies in the Fight Against Trafficking in Human Beings
29/10/2001
Speakers Urge Coordination of UN Operational Activities, National Development Strategies, as Second Committee Continues Debate
29/10/2001
Second Committee Winds up Debate on Operational Activities for Development with Reiterated Stress on Need for Coordination, Financial Aid; Meeting Opens with Panel Discussion on Capacity-building, Poverty Eradication
29/10/2001
General Assembly Asked to Revise, Enlarge Membership of UN Committee on Peaceful Uses of Outer Space; Fourth Committee, Making Proposal, Also Endorses Supported Items for Agenda of Space Body and Subsidiaries
29/10/2001
Security Council Concludes Discussion on Sanctions-related Issues; Wide Support Expressed for Ongoing Review Process; Agreement Not Yet Reached on Working Group’s Report
29/10/2001
Secretary-General Commends Winners of "UN 21 Awards, "2000, Presented to Staff Members WHO Improve Efficiency of Organization
29/10/2001
Special Adviser Egeland Appointed Secretary-General of Norwegian Red Cross
29/10/2001
General Committee Recommends Inclusion of Additional Item, "United Nations Year for Cultural Heritage, "2002 on General Assembly’s Agenda
29/10/2001
General Assembly Elects 18 New Members to UN Economic and Social Council; to Serve Three-year Terms Beginning 1 January 2002; in By-election, Spain to Take Over Seat Vacated by Portugal
29/10/2001
Inadequate Resources Key Issue in UN Development Cooperation, Second Committee Is Told; Constraints, Priorities of Donors Also A Factor, Says Australia’s Representative
25/10/2001
New Steps Against Trafficking in Human Beings in West African States -- Special Task Forces Planned to Fight Human Trafficking; Ecowas and United Nations Meeting Agrees Action Plan in Ghana, 23-24 October
25/10/2001
Disarmament Progress Contributes to Global Effort Against Terrorism States Draft Text Introduced by Chairman in First Committee; Thirteen Drafts Introduced, Including Resolutions on Preserving Abm Treaty, Totally Eliminating Nuclear Weapons
25/10/2001
Outer Space Arms Race, Depleted Uranium, Landmines, Chemical Weapons Addressed in Draft Texts Introduced in First Committee
25/10/2001
Third Committee Approves Draft Resolution on Literacy Decade, Illicit Drugs, Youth, Cooperatives, Crime Prevention; Hears Call for Priority Attention to Education of Children in Developing Countries
25/10/2001
Un’s Internal Oversight Office Launches Refocused Annual Report at Headquarters; Assesses Implementation of Critical Oversight Recommendations
25/10/2001
Security Council Supports Further Phase for United Nations Mission in Democratic Republic of Congo; After Extended Debate, Presidential Statement Urges Parties to Meet Commitments, Create Conditions Conducive to Advancing Peace Process
25/10/2001
Secretary-General Disturbed by Israel’s "Intensified Occupation; Calls for Immediate Halt to Attack at Village of Beit Rima
25/10/2001
Ismat Kittani Consummate Diplomat Whose Life "Was An Example to Us "All, Says Secretary-General, on Death of 36 General Assembly President
25/10/2001
Secretary-General Welcomes Announcement by Irish Republican Army That It Has Commenced Disarmament
24/10/2001
International Space Law Needs Updating to Meet Present-day Realities, Fourth Committee Told; Russian Federation Also Concerned at Weapons in Space; United States, Stressing Benefits of Peaceful Applications, Says Arms Issue Can Be Dealt with
24/10/2001
United Nations Staff Union Alarmed at Violence Against UN Personnel
24/10/2001
Press Statement by President of Security Council on Afghanistan
24/10/2001
Secretary-General Boosts Preparations for Johannesburg Summit
23/10/2001
Nuclear Power Alternative to Fossil Fuels, IAEA Director Informs General Assembly; Following Introduction of Agency’s Annual Report, Most Speakers Express Support for Non-proliferation, Additional Npt Protocols
23/10/2001
UN Conference by 2006 on Eliminating Nuclear Dangers Called for, as First Committee Hears Introduction of Seven Draft Texts; Others Concern Test-ban Treaty, Nuclear Waste Disposal, Fissile Material Ban, Nuclear-weapon-free Zones
23/10/2001
Impact of Global Economic Slowdown on Developing Countries Highlighted, as UNCTAD Secretary-General Addresses Second Committee; Also, Executive Secretary for Climate Change Convention Secretariat Tells Committee Parties Will Meet in Marrakech 29 October
23/10/2001
Fourth Committee Begins Debate on Peaceful Uses of Outer Space; Missile Defence Systems, Outer Space Law Among Issues Addressed
23/10/2001
Security Council Hears Reports on Making Sanctions More Effective, Lessening Harm to the Innocent; Better Monitoring of Implementation and Enforcement Called for
23/10/2001
Press Statement on Guinea-bissau by President of Security Council
23/10/2001
Secretary-General Commends African Efforts Against Terrorism, Urges Ratification, Implementation of Existing Conventions
23/10/2001
General Assembly Is Told "Culture of "Peace Needs Economic and Social Development, in Aftermath of 11 September Terrorist Attacks; Secretary-General Invited to Enlist Peace University; New Members Are Elected to UNEP Council, Committee for Prog
22/10/2001
Calling for Peace Mission, Somalia Prime Minister Tells Security Council Failure to Act Would Send Wrong Signal to Parties, Relief Donors; in Day-long Debate on Situation, Many Speakers Express Concern at Lack of Progress towards National Reconciliation
22/10/2001
Security Council Extends for Six Months Mandate of Sanctions Monitoring Mechanism Against Angola Rebel Group; Resolution 1374 (2001), Adopted Unanimously, Seeks Plan, within 60 Days, for Action on Unita Diamonds, Arms Violations, Finances
22/10/2001
Security Council Committee Concerning Afghanistan Issues A Further Addendum
22/10/2001
Security Council Committee Concerning Afghanistan Identifies A Bank Related to the Taliban
22/10/2001
At Opening of Inter-congolese Dialogue, Secretary-General Says Prospects for Reconciliation Never So Good
19/10/2001
Fifth Committee Concludes Consideration of Scale- Of-assessment Issues; Fails to Achieve Consensus on Calculation of Arrears
19/10/2001
On World Food Day, General Assembly President Stresses Importance of Upcoming Conference on Financing for Development
19/10/2001
Scientific Committee’s 2001 Report on Radiation’s Hereditary Effects Noted, 46-year Contribution Commended, in Text Approved by Fourth Committee
18/10/2001
West African States and UN Join Hands to Fight Human Trafficking; Ecowas and Odccp/cicp Expert Group to Discuss Trafficking in Human Beings in Ghana, 23-24 October
18/10/2001
UN Budget Situation Eased by United States Payment of $621 Million, Fifth Committee Is Told; Priority to Be Given to Peacekeeping Reimbursements; Some Speakers Warn That Underlying Financial Problems Persist
18/10/2001
New Security Paradigm Needed Following 11 September Terrorist Attack First Committee Told, as General Debate Concludes
18/10/2001
Deep Concerns Expressed Over Global Challenges Posed by Illicit Drug Trafficking and Organized Crime, as Third Committee Concludes Debate; India Says Heroin Stocks in Afghanistan Would Be Released When Market Is Ripe
18/10/2001
Secretary-General Re-appoints Lakhdar Brahimi as Special Representative for Afghanistan
17/10/2001
Speakers in General Assembly Acknowledge Improvements in Security Council Working Methods While Continuing to Criticize Report Format
17/10/2001
Speakers Urge Council to Respond to Member State Expectations of Increased Openness, Transparency; Concluding Its Consideration of Secretary-General’s Report on Council, Assembly Registers Frustration, Particularly from Troop-contributing States
17/10/2001
Fifth Committee Speakers Insist Changes in Application of Article 19 Will Have No Negative Impact on Prompt Payers
17/10/2001
Risk of Unauthorized Nuclear-weapon Use, Middle East Security Among Issues Addressed in First Committee’s General Debate
17/10/2001
International Cooperation Needed to Combat Money Laundering, Third Committee Told as Debate on Crime, Drugs Continues; Draft Resolutions Introduced on Social Development, Family, Cooperatives, Disabled Persons, Literacy, Older Persons
17/10/2001
UNDCP Survey Shows Sharp Reduction in Opium Cultivation in Afghanistan in 2001
17/10/2001
Press Statement on Afghanistan by President of Security Council
17/10/2001
Press Statement on Burundi by President of Security Council
16/10/2001
Security Council Focused on Conflict Prevention, Settlement of Regional Conflicts, General Assembly Told as It Considers Council’s Report; Many Delegations Criticize Lack of Analytical Content in Report
16/10/2001
General Assembly Continues Debate on Security Council’s Annual Report; Speakers Highlight Need for More Substance, Analysis
16/10/2001
Fifth Committee Speakers Echo Opposition by Group of 77 to Scale-of-assessment Changes Affecting Right to Assembly Vote
16/10/2001
Secretary-General, 2002-2003 Budget, Warns That Further Reductions Would Compromise Organization’s Ability to Fulfil Its Mandates; Speakers Voice Concern Over Increased Dependency on Extrabudgetary Resources, Increase in High-level Posts
16/10/2001
Global Economic Disparity Incompatible with Global Security First Committee Told, as General Debate Continues
16/10/2001
Statement of the Chair: Donors and States in the Region Stress Urgent Need to Strengthen Cooperation Against Afghan Drugs Flow
16/10/2001
Secretary-General Says Millions More People Around World Will Be Vulnerable to Poverty as Economic Consequence of Events of 11 September; Message for International Day Urges Renewed Commitment to Millennium Declaration on Improving Conditions of Least-ad
16/10/2001
Secretary-General Regrets Loss of Life by Conflict in Afghanistan, Exhorts All Parties to Minimize Civilian Casualties; Expresses Dismay at Reports of Taliban Harassment and Beatings of UN Agency Staff
16/10/2001
Secretary-General Introduces Proposed 2002-2003 Programme Budget to Fifth Committee
15/10/2001
Secretary-General, Addressing Assembly, Calls 2001 Nobel Peace Prize; "Honour for the Whole United "Nations
15/10/2001
Secretary-General Says Nobel Peace Prize Award Proclaims United Nations Is Only Route to Global Peace and Cooperation; Security Council Members Told Their Role Is Acknowledged
15/10/2001
Secretary-General Urges Rededication to War Against Hunger, Poverty, in Message on World Food Day
15/10/2001
All at United Nations Honoured, Humbled by Nobel Peace Prize Award, Secretary-General Says in UN Day Message
15/10/2001
United Nations Demographic Yearbook Shows Global Trends in Population, Life Expectancy, Related Issues; Three Quarters of World’s People Live in Twenty-five Countries
15/10/2001
General Assembly Speakers Applaud Award of Nobel Peace Prize to Secretary-General Kofi Annan and United Nations; Nabil Elaraby (egypt) Elected to Fill Vacancy on International Court of Justice
15/10/2001
Third Committee Informed of "Serious "Decrease in Heroin Production in Afghanistan, but Large Stockpiles Remain; Committee Also Hears That UN Terrorism Prevention Branch Is Underfunded, Understaffed
15/10/2001
Importance of International Cooperation, Legal Conventions Stressed as Third Committee Continues Discussion of Drugs, Crime
15/10/2001
Committee on Rights of Child Concludes Twenty-eighth Session; Issues Final Conclusions and Recommendations on Reports of Mauritania, Kenya, Oman, Portugal, Qatar, Uzbekistan, Gambia, Paraguay, Cameroon, Cape Verde
15/10/2001
Human Rights Committee to Hold Seventy-third Session in Geneva from 15 October to 2 November 2001; Experts to Examine Reports of Ukraine, United Kingdom, Switzerland, Afghanistan and Azerbaijan
15/10/2001
Press Statement on Democratic Republic of Congo by President of Security Council
15/10/2001
Security Council, Acting in Concert with General Assembly, Elects Nabil Elaraby of Egypt to Fill Vacancy on International Court of Justice;to Serve for Balance of Term of Mohammed Bedjaoui (algeria)
15/10/2001
Security Council Celebrates Peace Prize Award to UN, Secretary-General; Says UN Ideals, Activities Best Hope for Meeting Future Challenges; Secretary-General Tells Council UN Should Feel Proud, but Humbled
12/10/2001
Budget Committee Begins Consideration of ’Visitors Experience Proposal, Information Technology, Commercial Activities, Development Account; Serious Concerns Expressed Regarding Budgetary Implications in Information Technology Report
12/10/2001
Real Disarmament Possible Only Through Common Security, Strengthening Existing Agreements, Says Russian Federation in First Committee; as General Debate Continues, Several Speakers Highlight Need to Preserve 1972 Abm Treaty
12/10/2001
Mass Destruction Weapons Pose Greatest Threat, Yet Disarmament Pledges Largely Unmet, Says Nigeria in First Committee’s General Debate; Small Arms Proliferation, Anti-personnel Mines, Nuclear-weapon-free Middle East Among Other Issues Addressed
12/10/2001
Second Committee Begins Consideration of International Financial System, External Debt Crisis and Development; Deteriorating Short-term Outlook for Financial Flows to Developing Countries in Wake of 11 September Attacks, Delegates Hear
12/10/2001
Awarded to the United Nations and to Its Secretary-General, Kofi Annan
12/10/2001
The United Nations and the Nobel Peace Prize Awards
12/10/2001
Director-General of the United Nations Office at Vienna Welcomes Nobel Peace Prize Award to the United Nations and Its Secretary-General, Kofi Annan
12/10/2001
Secretary-General Urges "Spirit of Openness, "Tolerance as Côte D’ivoire Forum for National Reconciliation Opens
11/10/2001
Press Statement on Burundi by President of Security Council
11/10/2001
Following Terrorist Attacks, UN Revises Forecast for World Economic Growth in 2001 to 1.4 per Cent; Warns That Long-run Growth Rate Will Be "Adversely "Affected
11/10/2001
After Several Years in Red, Financial Stability for UN "Close at Hand"; Under-secretary-General for Management Paints Broadly Optimistic Fiscal Picture
11/10/2001
Responsible Governments Cannot Stand Aside When Citizens Slaughtered Says United States, as First Committee Continues General Debate
11/10/2001
UN Revises Forecast for World Economic Growth in 2001 Down to 1.4% in Wake of Terrorist Attacks; Warns That Long-run Growth Rate Will Be "Adversely "Affected as Well
10/10/2001
Press Statement on Afghanistan by President of Security Council
10/10/2001
New Concept of Security Needed Following 11 September Terrorist Attack China Tells First Committee, as General Debate Continues
10/10/2001
Women’s Role in Countering Natural Disasters; International Day for Natural Disaster Reduction, 10 October
09/10/2001
General Assembly Elects Bulgaria, Cameroon, Guinea, Mexico, Syria to Two-year Terms on Security Council; Terms to Begin on 1 January 2002
09/10/2001
Remarkable Unity in Wake of 11 September Terrorist Attack Must Be Used to Reinforce Multilateral Disarmament Regime, First Committee Told; Under-secretary-General for Disarmament Says Realizing Attack’s Impact If Nuclear, Chemical Weapons Used Commi
09/10/2001
Legal Committee Members Discuss Plan to Enlarge UN Commission on International Trade Law; Delegates Say Change in UNCITRAL Membership Has Not Matched Expansion of World Body; Views Differ on Extent of Proposed Revision
09/10/2001
More Support Expressed for Increased Financial, Personnel Resources for International Trade Law Commission; Assembly’s Legal Committee Continues Review of UNCITRAL Annual Report
09/10/2001
Assembly President Says Now Is Time to Unite Against Terrorism; Cautions That Humanitarian Aid to Afghanistan Must Continue
09/10/2001
Press Statement on Abkhazia (georgia) by Security Council President
09/10/2001
"To Defeat Terrorism, We Need A Sustained Effort and Broad Strategy That Unite All "Nations, Says Secretary-General
09/10/2001
Implementation of Desertification Convention A Factor for Stability, Ensuring Food Security, Preventing Migratory Flows, Secretary-General Says
09/10/2001
International Strategy for Disaster Reduction Aims to Limit Losses and Suffering, Secretary-General Says in Message on Day for Disaster Reduction
09/10/2001
Security Council Committee Concerning Afghanistan Issues List Pursuant to Paragraph 8 (c) of Resolution 1333 (2000)
09/10/2001
Press Statement on Terrorist Threats by Security Council President
09/10/2001
New Permanent Representative of Bahrain Presents Credentials
08/10/2001
New Permanent Representative of Canada Presents Credentials
08/10/2001
New Permanent Representative of Cuba Presents Credentials
08/10/2001
Immediate Anti-terrorism Steps Available Even Without Legal Definition, General Assembly Told, as Terrorism Debate Begins Fifth Day
08/10/2001
Assembly Winds up Week-long Debate on Elimination of Terrorism; President Sees Debate as Sign of International Commitment to Face Down Formidable Challenge
08/10/2001
First Committee Begins Debate 8 October Facing Unfinished Disarmament Agenda, Including Nuclear, Biological, Chemical Weapon Threats
08/10/2001
Security Council Urges All Men and Women of Kosovo to Vote in November 17 Elections; Calls on Kosovo Leaders to Publicly Condemn Violence and Ethnic Intolerance
08/10/2001
Secretary-General Looks Forward to Convening of Proposed Summit of Leaders of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone
05/10/2001
Press Statement on Special Representative for Afghanistan by President of Security Council
05/10/2001
Conflict Prevention, Not Reaction, Should Be Basis of ’States Response to Terror, Assembly Told
05/10/2001
General Assembly Hears 34 Speakers in Continued Debate on Global Terrorism; Difference Between Terrorism, Legitimate Resistance Among Issues Raised; Afghanistan Accuses Pakistan of Supporting Terrorist Activities
05/10/2001
Press Statement on "Terrorism "Committee by President of Security Council
05/10/2001
Secretary-General, in Message for World Mental Health Day, Urges Governments to Give Priority to Illness "Exacerbated by "Discrimination
05/10/2001
Envoy of Secretary-General Chairs Meeting Between Ambassadors of Greece, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
05/10/2001
Joint Communiqué from Secretary-General and Seven Leading Research-based Pharmaceutical Companies on Access to HIV/AIDS Care and Treatment
04/10/2001
Terrorism on Agenda Since 1972, but Answer Cannot Wait Another 30 Years General Assembly Told, as Third Day of Terrorism Debate Begins
04/10/2001
Assembly Hears Call for Definition of Terrorism; Definition Must Distinguish Between Terrorism and Right to Resist Occupation, Qatar States
04/10/2001
Decolonization, Outer Space, Israeli Practices Among Issues to Be Considered by Fourth Committee, Beginning 8 October; Committee Adopts Agenda, Defers Election of Officers
04/10/2001
International Day of Older Persons to Focus on 2002 World Assembly on Ageing
04/10/2001
Hrh Princess Infanta Do�a Cristina of Spain Named Goodwill Ambassador for 2002 United Nations Second World Assembly on Ageing
03/10/2001
Terrorism Requires Response Founded on Inclusion, Fairness, Legitimacy, General Assembly Told, as Debate Continues; Sustainability of Struggle Against Terrorism Rests on Application of Single Set of Standards to All
03/10/2001
Secretary-General Condemns Terrorist Suicide Bombing in Kashmir
03/10/2001
Speakers Call for Comprehensive International Convention on Terrorism, in General Assembly Debate
02/10/2001
Unprecedented Unity Prompted by "Terrible "Evil of 11 September Attack Says Secretary-General, as General Assembly Begins Terrorism Debate; New York City’s Mayor Also Addresses Assembly
02/10/2001
Efforts to Achieve Global Security Must Include Action on Poverty and Injustice, General Assembly Is Told; Condemning Terrorism, Delegates Say Counter-measure Should Be Directed Against Extremists, Not Wider Community
02/10/2001
Tentative Schedule of Meetings of United Nations Bodies in October 2001
02/10/2001
World Space Week to Be Celebrated World-wide from 4 to 10 October; World Space Week 2001 Theme : "Inspiration from "Space
02/10/2001
"We Are United in Helping the City in Its Hour of "Need, Secretary- General Says in Welcoming New York Mayor to United Nations
02/10/2001
Secretary-General, Addressing Assembly on Terrorism, Calls for "Immediate, Far-reaching "Changes in UN Response to Terror
01/10/2001
UN Population Fund Launches Emergency Effort to Save Afghan Women’s Lives; Seeks $4.5 Million to Counter Health Risks Confronting Refugees
01/10/2001
UN Commission on International Trade Law Working Group Concludes First Session in Vienna; Discusses Draft Core Model Legislative Provisions in the Field of Privately Financed Infrastructure Projects
01/10/2001
Security Council Unanimously Adopts Wide-ranging Anti-terrorism Resolution; Calls for Suppressing Financing, Improving International Cooperation; Resolution 1373 (2001) Also Creates Committee to Monitor Implementation
01/10/2001
Secretary-General, Saluting International Day of Older Persons, Says Policies, Attitudes on Ageing Must Evolve
01/10/2001
Following Meeting of Presidents Kagame, Kabila, Secretary- General Calls on Both Leaders to Stop Ongoing Fighting in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo
01/10/2001
Secretary-General Calls for Outer Space Discoveries to Be Shared with All Humanity, in World Space Week Message
01/10/2001
Secretary-General Meets with Pino Arlacchi, Vienna and Drug Office Head; Agree Arlacchi Will Remain in Post Until Mid-2002
30/11/2001
Need for Disarmament Progress as Contribution to Anti-terrorism Report Stressed in Resolution Adopted by General Assembly; One of 49 Texts Adopted on Recommendation of First Committee; Proposal for Study on Use of Depleted Uranium in Weapons Rejected
30/11/2001
European Union Tells General Assembly Negotiations Must Resume for Palestinian State with Guaranteed Security for Israel; Plo Says Ariel Sharon Brought Peace Process to Halt; Israeli Delegate Reports News Acts of Violence: Four Palestinian Attacks in Las
30/11/2001
Second Committee Speakers Underline Need for Effective Follow-up to Third UN Conference on Least Developed Countries; Support Expressed for Proposed Office of High Representative for Ldcs, Landlocked, Small Island Developing States
30/11/2001
Events of 11 September Gave New Urgency to Solving Palestine Question, Secretary-General Tells Solidarity Day Meeting; Violence, However, Had Worsened Situation; Committee Hears Calls for Renewed Efforts by Parties, with Global Support, to Reach Settleme
30/11/2001
Third Committee Approves, Without Vote, 10 Draft Resolutions on Human Rights, Women, Cultural Diversity, Refugees
30/11/2001
Mitchell Committee Recommendations Should Serve as Road Map Guiding Parties to Negotiations, General Assembly President Says in Message on Palestine
30/11/2001
Security Council Extends Iraq "Oil-for-food Programme for Six Months, Adopting Resolution 1382 (2001) Unanimously; Also Adopts List of Material, Effective 30 May, Requiring Sanctions Committee Approval Before Report
30/11/2001
"Multilateral Diplomacy Offers Way to Pursue National Interest While Making Common Cause with "Others, Secretary-General Says
30/11/2001
"Solution to Afghan Crisis Must Come from Women and Men of Afghanistan "Itself, Secretary-General Says in Washington Address
30/11/2001
Secretary-General, in Message for International Day, Applauds Vital Contribution of Volunteers in Global Society-bulding
30/11/2001
Marking International Day for Abolition of Slavery, Secretary-General Urges Nations to "Reaffirm Our Commitment to This "Cause
29/11/2001
Third Committee Approves Five Draft Resolutions on Human Rights, Refugees, Displaced Persons, Minorities, Justice Administration; Draft on Electoral Assistance Approved by Recorded Vote; Four Others Approved Without Vote
29/11/2001
Meaningful Partnership Between United Nations, Troop Contributors Needed, Say Speakers in Fourth Committee, as Peacekeeping Debate Concludes; Thirty-four Speakers Address Issues of Peacekeeping Finance, Rapid Reaction Capability, Comprehensive Strategy F
29/11/2001
AIDS Epidemic Faster in Eastern Europe than in the Rest of World: New Figures; Report Warns Epidemic Continues in Upswing, Even in High-income Countries
29/11/2001
"Intolerance Is Taught and Can Be "Untaught, Secretary-General Says in Message to Institute for International Education
29/11/2001
"Full Implementation of Mitchell Recommendations Offers Best Route to Peaceful "Solution, Secretary-General Says in Message on Palestinian Solidarity Day
29/11/2001
Security Council Committee Established Pursuant to Resolution 1267 (1999) Concerning Afghanistan Issues A New Consolidated List
29/11/2001
Climate Change Convention Will Help Ensure Sustainable Global Economic Development, Convention Official Tells Second Committee; Among Remaining Goals: Reintegration of United States in Global Approach to Climate Change
28/11/2001
Assembly Renews Call for End to United States Embargo Against Cuba; in Tenth Successive Year, Resolution Is Adopted Asking All Nations to Refrain from Similar Measures; Text Receives 167 Votes
28/11/2001
Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Tells Security Council Kosovo Election Free of Violence, All Inclusive; Says Process Provides Solid Basis for Provisional Self-government; Some Speakers Warn Election Does Not Resolve Kosovo’s Final Statu
28/11/2001
"You Must Place the Interests of Your People "First, Secretary-General Tells Bonn Meeting of Afghan Leaders
27/11/2001
New Permanent Representative of the United States of America Presents Credentials
27/11/2001
Deputy Secretary-General, in Statement to Moscow Round Table, Stresses Role of Business Community on Global Issues
27/11/2001
Presidents of Yugoslavia, Rwanda Tribunals Report to General Assembly on Year of Activities; Quickening of Pace Is Noted; Progress Seen in Indictments, Judgements; Some Adjustments, Improvements Said to Be Needed, with Continued Global Support
27/11/2001
General Assembly Is Told Negative Consequences of Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Catastrophe Still Being Felt, 15 Years Later; Debate Begins on United Nations Relief, Disaster Assistance; Delivery of Aid, Protection of Humanitarian Workers Among Issues Ra
27/11/2001
Budget Committee Takes up Financing for Strengthened UN Staff Security, Peacekeeping Missions in Lebanon, Sierra Leone
27/11/2001
Independent Assessment of African Debt Sustainability Urged as Second Committee Hears Reports on Trade, Globalization, Development; Committee Also Hears Introduction of Draft Text on Natural Resources of Palestinian Territory, Syrian Golan
27/11/2001
Third Committee Hears Introduction of Five Draft Resolutions on Human Rights Education, Religious Intolerance, Other Human Rights Issues; Discussion of Racism, Racial Discrimination Postponed
27/11/2001
Press Statement by Security Council President on United Nations Consolidated Inter-agency Appeals
27/11/2001
Press Statement on Western Sahara by President of Security Council
27/11/2001
Press Statement on United Nations Consolidated Inter-agency Appeals by President of Security Council
27/11/2001
Secretary-General "Deeply "Concerned at Renewal of Violence in Nepal
27/11/2001
Launching 2002 Consolidated Appeals, Secretary-General Asks Help for 33 Million "in Desperate "Need
27/11/2001
Addressing Rwanda Conference of Genocide Survivors, Secretary-General Praises "Those WHO Live on to Remember and "Rebuild
26/11/2001
New Permanent Representative of Cyprus Presents Credentials
26/11/2001
New Permanent Representative of Algeria Presents Credentials
26/11/2001
- Third Committee Approves Draft Resolution Urging Support for Palestinian Quest for Self-determination
26/11/2001
Committee Against Torture Concludes Twenty-seventh Session; Considered Reports of Ukraine, Benin, Indonesia, Zambia and Israel
26/11/2001
Secretary-General’s Special Envoy to Help Facilitate Myanmar Talks
22/11/2001
Asian Regional Meeting to Prepare for Sustainable Development Summit
22/11/2001
Natural Resources of Palestinian Territory, Syrian Golan Threatened Under Israeli Occupation, Say Second Committee Speakers; by Mutual Agreement, Says Israel, Issues Under Discussion Belong in Direct Bilateral Negotiations, Not in Second Committee
22/11/2001
Final Agreement Elusive, Legal Committee Endorses Further Work towards Comprehensive Convention Against Terrorism; with Needed Political Will, Completion in Near Future Foreseen; Deferring Other Actions, Committee Ends Work for Session
22/11/2001
Third Committee Approves Draft Resolution Urging Support for Palestinian Quest for Self-determination; Committee Approved 9 Other Drafts on Human Rights, Girl Child, Women, Refugees, Children, Migrants, Torture, Self-determination
22/11/2001
Under-secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Briefs Security Council on Initiatives to Improve Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict
22/11/2001
James Lemoyne Appointed Acting Special Adviser on Colombia
21/11/2001
UN Information and Communication Technologies (ict) Task Force Launched Today at Headquarters
21/11/2001
Media Coverage of Terrorist Attacks, UN Radio Project Among Issu
21/11/2001
Important Recommendations to Improve Peacekeeping Planning, Rapid Deployment Already in Place, Under-secretary-General Tells Fourth Committee; Committee Also Approves Draft Texts on Information; Calls for Expanded UN International Radio Broadcasting Capa
21/11/2001
United Nations/united States of America to Hold Second Regional Workshop on "the Use and Applications of Global Navigation Satellite "Systems (gnss); Vienna, Austria, 26-30 November 2001
21/11/2001
Security Council Requests Secretary-General to List Parties to Armed Conflict That Recruit or Use Children; Council Unanimously Adopts Resolution 1379 (2001); Former Sierra Leonean Child Soldier Appeals for Action
21/11/2001
Press Statement of Afghanistan by President of Security Council
21/11/2001
Appalled by Murder of Four Journalists in Afghanistan, Secretary-General Appeals to All Parties to Comply with International Human Rights Law
21/11/2001
’This Generation of Afghan Children Must Become Harbingers of ’Peace, Says Secretary-General
21/11/2001
Launching Information and Communications Technology (ict) Task Force, Secretary-General Appeals for Support from Private Sector
21/11/2001
Greece and Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Meet Under Secretary-General’s Auspices
21/11/2001
Secretary-General Congratulates Huey Johnson for Efforts to Advance Sustainable Development
21/11/2001
’When It Comes to Violence Against Women, There Are No Grounds for ’Tolerance, Says Secretary-General in Message for International Day
20/11/2001
Deputy Secretary-General, in Statement to Moscow Round Table, Stresses Role of Business Community on Global Issues; Takes up ’Road ’Map to Millennium Declaration Implementation
20/11/2001
Pledges Made at 2000 Millennium Summit Must Be Transformed Into Reality, Speakers Stress, as General Assembly Considers Summit Follow-up
20/11/2001
Action Needed on Underlying Causes If Conflicts to Be Avoided, Peace to Be Secured, General Assembly Is Told; in Debate on UN Millennium Summit Declaration, Stronger Efforts from Member States on Implementation Called for
20/11/2001
Legal Committee Calls for Working Groups on Human Cloning, Better Protection for UN, Related Personnel; Other Texts Also Approved; Debate on Terrorism Begins; Chairman of Security Council Committee Urges Early Finalization of Comprehensive Convention
20/11/2001
Use of Term ’Palestine by Us President ’A Step ’Forward, Palestine Observer Tells Palestinian Rights Committee; Committee Approves Four Draft Resolutions on Peaceful Settlement; Information; Division’s, Committee’s Work Pro
20/11/2001
Public Information Department’s Ability to Respond to Crisis Demonstrated Following 11 September Attack, Interim Head Tells Fourth Committee; Speakers Stress Need for Parity in Official Languages
20/11/2001
Press Statement on Kosovo, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, by President of Security Council
20/11/2001
Secretary-General Welcomes Orderly, Peaceful Conduct of Kosovo Elections
20/11/2001
Secretary-General Says Turning Point Reached in Fight Against HIV/AIDS, in Message on World AIDS Day
20/11/2001
Greek, Turkish Cypriot Leaders to Meet 4 December; Secretary-General Hopes Meeting Will Move Process Forward
20/11/2001
Secretary-General Welcomes Speech by Us Secretary of State as ’Important Elaboration of President Bush’s Constructive ’Remarks on Middle East
20/11/2001
Implementation of Biological Weapons Convention Must Be Given Higher Priority, Says Secretary-General
20/11/2001
Secretary-General Asks UNDP Administrator Mark Malloch Brown to Lead Early Recovery Effort in Afghanistan
16/11/2001
Role of Vienna-based UN Centre for International Crime Prevention in Fighting Terrorism Could Be Strengthened
16/11/2001
Economically Viable, Non-military Palestinian State "the Best "Bet, Israeli Foreign Minister Tells Assembly; Different Views Offered on Use of Sanctions, with Calls for Review of Embargoes on Libya, Iraq
16/11/2001
Security Council, in Presidential Statement, Commends Nelson Mandela’s "Unwavering "Commitment to Reconciliation in Burundi; Also Calls for Halt to Hostilities, Support for Transitional Government
16/11/2001
Security Council Sees Need to Improve Effectiveness of Sanction Against Rebel Group in Angola; Presidential Statement, After Debate with 22 Nations Taking Part, Also Looks to Holding of Elections When Conditions Appropriate
16/11/2001
Major-General Miguel Angel Moreno Appointed Force Commander in United Nations Iraq-kuwait Observation Mission
16/11/2001
Secretary-General Welcomes Outcome of Global Trade Talks in Qatar, Foresees Gains for Developing Countries; Spirit of Cooperation An Achievement for Multilateralism; Measures on Trade Barriers, Increased Drug Availability Seen as Positive Factors
15/11/2001
Global Cooperation After 11 September Attacks Seen as Positive Sign by General Assembly Speakers; Call for Similar Unity in Face of Other Challenges; Fourteen More Speakers Heard as Main Debate Continues
15/11/2001
Afghanistan Developments Victory for Its People, Global Community, Afghanistan’s Representative Tells General Assembly; Assembly Hears 14 More Speakers in General Debate; Refugees, Persistent Poverty, HIV/AIDS Among Other Issues Addressed
15/11/2001
UN Information and Communication Technologies Task Force to Be Launched at Headquarters, 20 November
15/11/2001
Awarded King Hussein Foundation Humanitarian Prize for Its "Tireless "Efforts to Promote Peace
15/11/2001
Security Council Sets United Nations Course for Supporting New Governance in Afghanistan; Urges No Reprisals; Resolution 1378, Adopted Unanimously, Anticipates Broad-based, Multi-ethnic Transitional Administration, Leading to New Government
15/11/2001
Secretary-General Says Revised Industrial Policies, Diversification Are Key Elements in African Economic Development; Message to Mark Africa Industrialization Day -- 20 November 2001
14/11/2001
General Assembly Warned of Continuing Threat from Global Warming, Rising Sea Level Danger to Island Nations; as Main Debate Continues, President of Micronesia Says States Least Responsible for Problem Are on ’?front-line in Facing Consequence
14/11/2001
While Focus on Terrorism Warranted, World’s Economic, Social, Political, Humanitarian Concerns Need Attention, General Assmembly Told
14/11/2001
Countries to Focus on Restoration of Afghan Society Respecting All Human Rights, Speakers Tell Third Committee; General Debate Opens on Human Rights
14/11/2001
Situation of Migrants More Difficult Since 11 September Attacks, Third Committee Told as Human Rights Debate Continues; Committee Hears Rights of Reply from 13 Countries Responding to Statements Alleging Human Rights Abuses
14/11/2001
Afghanistan, One of Un’s Greatest Challenges, at "Most Urgent "Stage, Says Secretary-General, at Day-long Security Council Meeting; Special Representative Outlines Plans for Political Transition; Thirty-eight Speakers Stress UN Involvement
14/11/2001
Secretary-General, in Message for International Day of Tolerance, Says Response to 11 September Attacks Has United Global Family as Never Before
14/11/2001
Secretary-General Says Sustained Engagement of Security Council Needed to Get Afghanistan on Path to Lasting Peace
14/11/2001
Secretary-General Reiterates Urgent Need to Establish Broad-based Government in Afghanistan
14/11/2001
States Parties Stress Determination to Promote Early Entry Into Force of Nuclear-test-ban Treaty, as Conference Concludes at Headquarters; Final Declaration Calls for Moratorium on Nuclear Testing; Treaty Has 87 Ratifications, but Needs 13 More States Fr
13/11/2001
Nuclear-test-ban Treaty "Pillar of System Controlling Weapons of Mass Destruction, Canada’s Foreign Minister Tells Conference; 17 More Speakers Address Treaty’s Value, Needed Ratifications; China Says No Reason for Optimism About Pro
13/11/2001
France’s Foreign Minister Urges States Crucial to Nuclear-test-ban Treaty’s Success to Ratify It Without Delay, as Headquarters Conference Continues; Twenty-two More Speakers Address Conference; Viet Nam, Colombia Announce Governments Will Soon
13/11/2001
Continuing General Debate, Assembly Speakers Focus on Mideast, Africa, Women in Peacekeeping, Climate Change
13/11/2001
Calls for Resolute Action Against Terrorism Tempered in Assembly by Appeals for Caution in Identifying "Enemy"; Agreement Must Be Reached on Unified Definition of Terrorism, Says Libya
13/11/2001
Obstacles Put in Way of Human Rights Defenders by Governments Hamper Enjoyment of Fundamental Freedoms, Third Committee Told; Committee Also Discusses Internally Displaced Persons, Human Rights in Iran, Cambodia
13/11/2001
Security Council Calls on All States to Intensify Efforts to Eliminate International Terrorism; Resolution 1377 (2001) Adopted Unanimously; Council Hears Statements by Us Secretary of State, 14 Foreign Ministers
13/11/2001
Press Statement by Security Council President on American Airlines Plane Crash
13/11/2001
Secretary-General Urges Implementation of Legal Instruments on Terrorism, Renews Call for Agreement on Comprehensive Convention; Security Council Is Told United Nations "Uniquely "Placed to Foster Cooperation Among Governments in Taking Needed
13/11/2001
Slavery Exhibition Opens in Vienna International Centre
12/11/2001
Special Representative Says Rehabilitation of War-affected Children Must Be Placed at Forefront of International Response to Afghan Situation
12/11/2001
Security Council Committee Concerning Afghanistan Issues Further Addendum
12/11/2001
- Conference on Facilitating Entry Into Force of Nuclear-test-ban Treaty at Headquarters, 11 - 13 November
12/11/2001
Nuclear-weapon Use by Terrorists, "Chain of "Set-backs in Disarmament Among Issues Highlighted in Test-ban-treaty Conference
12/11/2001
Dialogue Among Civilizations "Humanity’s Best Answer to Humanity’s Worst "Enemies, Secretary-General Tells Assembly; Cultures, Civilizations Faiths Bound by "Inviolable Verdict of "Technology Says President of Iran
12/11/2001
Assembly Proclaims Agenda for Dialogue Among Civilizations, Culmination to Observance of International Year; Action Programme Adopted After Two-day Debate; Many Delegates Say Need Is Highlighted by Events of 11 September 2001
12/11/2001
"Suffering of 11 September Was Inflicted on People of Many Faiths and Many "Nations, Us President Tells General Assembly’s High-level Debate; Also Says Governments Must Crack Down on Terrorist Financing, Share Intelligence, Deny Safe Haven
12/11/2001
"Terrorism Not A Christian, Buddhist, Jewish or Muslim "Belief, President of Pakistan Tells General Assembly; "It Is to Be Condemned, No Matter WHO the "Perpetrator, President Musharraf Says
12/11/2001
Universal Condemnation of Terrorism Continues in Assembly’s General Debate, Counter-action Supported; Five Presidents Heard; Global Community Said to Be Unified After 11 September, Efforts Against Roots of Discontent Also Urged; Yasser Arafat Seeks
12/11/2001
Assembly Speakers Link Fight Against Terrorism to Achievement of Overall UN Goals
12/11/2001
Attention Sought for Problem of Effects on "Third "Countries of Sanctions Imposed by United Nations; Legal Committee Says General Assembly Should Invite Security Council to Consider Measures to Mitigate Unintended Consequences
12/11/2001
Special Rapporteurs Tell Third Committee That Events of 11 September Severely Affected Efforts to Promote, Protect Rights to Food, Religious Freedom
12/11/2001
General Assembly President Urges Assembly to Adopt Global Agenda for Dialogue Among Civilizations by Consensus
12/11/2001
Security Council Calls on "All Women and Men of "Kosovo to Vote in 17 November Province-wide Elections; Presidential Statement Welcomes Yugoslav President’s Helpful Role in Recommending Kosovo Serb Participation
12/11/2001
Security Council Supports Third Deployment Phase for UN Mission in Democratic Republic of Congo; Resolution 1376 (2001) Adopted Unanimously; Describes Variety of Requirements for Phase Iii Implementation
12/11/2001
Eliminating Trade Barriers Not Sufficient, Secretary-General Tells Conference: Developing Countries Must Achieve Capacity to Exploit Market Opportunities
12/11/2001
Secretary-General, in Security Council Remarks, Reiterates Concerns on Democratic Republic of Congo Peace Process
12/11/2001
"UN Must Place People at Centre of Everything It "Does, Secretary-General Says at Opening of High-level General Assembly Debate
12/11/2001
"Precious, but "Fleeting Opportunity Exists to Free World of Nuclear Threat, Secretary-General Tells Test-ban-treaty Conference
09/11/2001
Terrorism Denies Universality of Values Implicit in Dialogue Among Civilizations, India Tells Assembly as Two-day Session Begins
09/11/2001
History of Humanity Based for Too Long on Mutual Negation, Representative of Israel Tells Assembly; in Second Meeting to Discuss Dialogue Among Civilization, Assembly Speakers Call Tolerance, Understanding "Imperatives for "Survival
09/11/2001
Participation of Afghan People Must Be Central to Political Restructuring There, Third Committee Told, as Human Rights Deliberations Continue; Committee Also Hears That Root Cause of Middle East Conflict Is Israel’s Military Occupation
09/11/2001
Questions Raised in Third Committee Regarding Sudan’s Use of Oil Revenues; Special Rapporteur’s Query at Issue; Draft Resolutions Approved on Ageing, Indigenous Peoples
09/11/2001
Resumed Peace Process Only Hope of Ending Middle East Suffering Belgium Tells Fourth Committee; Committee Concludes Consideration of Report on Israeli Practices
09/11/2001
The Secretary-General - Address to the General Assembly on the Dialogue Among Civilizations
09/11/2001
- the Secretary-General - Address to the General Assembly
09/11/2001
Press Statement on Liberia by President of Security Council
09/11/2001
Security Council Welcomes Burundi’s Transitional Government, Condemns Attacks on Civilians, in Presidential Statement; Calls for Immediate Suspension of Hostilities, Negotiations for Definitive Ceasefire
08/11/2001
General Committee Recommends Ecosoc Report Be Considered Directly by General Assembly
08/11/2001
Economic Committee Is Told Far More Women in Labour Force, but Still at Disadvantage in Pay, Conditions; ILO Official Describes Inequality; Debate on Sustainable Development, International Economic Cooperation Is Concluded
08/11/2001
Third Committee Hears Calls for Priority Attention to Incorporating Human Rights Treaty Provisions Into Domestic Law
08/11/2001
Israel’s Construction, Expansion of Settlements Criticized, as Fourth Committee Takes up Israeli Practices Report; Speakers Say End of Israeli Occupation Only Acceptable Outcome to Palestinian Struggle
08/11/2001
UN General Assembly to Discuss Year of Dialogue Among Civilisations on 8 & 9 November
08/11/2001
Dialogue Among Civilizations to Be Focus of Two-day General Assemlby Session, 8-9 November
08/11/2001
United Nations Population Fund’s "State of World Population "2001 Report Links Environmental Protection, Poverty Alleviation, Reproductive Health
08/11/2001
Secretary-General Urges Parties to Framework Convention on Climate Changeto Aim for Swift Ratification of Kyoto Protocol
07/11/2001
Iraq Programme, Drug Control Office Among Issues Addressed as Budget Committee Continues Debate on Internal Oversight; Also Begins Consideration of United Nations Common System, Hearing Introduction of International Civil Service Commission Report
07/11/2001
Disarmament Progress Needed as Part of Anti-terrorism Effort, by Terms of Draft Resolution Approved in First Committee; Committee Concludes Session, Recommending 51 Texts for Assembly Action
07/11/2001
Press Statement on Afghanistan by President of Security Council
07/11/2001
Secretary-General Repeats Call for Global Response to Terrorism, Urging Moral Struggle Against "An Evil That Is Anathema to All Faiths"; Message to Warsaw Meeting Says Current Military Action in Afghanistan Fits Context of Security Council Reso
07/11/2001
Better Future for World’s People Requires Those with More to Reach Out to Those with Less, Deputy Secretary-General Says
06/11/2001
Lakhdar Brahimi Appointed Special Representative for Afghanistan
06/11/2001
General Assembly Adopts Resolution on Day for Preventing Environ
06/11/2001
Reviewing Implementation of Africa’s Development Agenda for
06/11/2001
Internal Oversight Office "An Integral, Effective Part of Process to Revitalize and Streamline "UN, Budget Committee Told; Independence the Cornerstone of Effective Oversight, Says United States Representative
06/11/2001
Disarmament Aimed at Elimination of Nuclear Weapons Called for in Draft Solution Approved by First Committee; Other Texts Approved Address Nuclear Test-ban Treaty, UN Conference on Nuclear Dangers, Small Arms, Africa Centre
06/11/2001
Secretary-General Names William Lacy Swing (united States) as Special Representative for Western Sahara
05/11/2001
Press Statement on Burundi by President of Security Council
05/11/2001
Fifth Committee Recommends Appointments to Acabq, Contributions Committee, Board of Auditors, Investments Committee, International Civil Service Commission
05/11/2001
Russian Federation, United States Called on to Strengthen Abm Treaty Under Draft Resolution Approved by First Committee; Also Approves Texts on Space Arms Race, Nuclear-free Africa, Middle East, Nuclear-free Southern Hemisphere; Regional Centres
05/11/2001
Panel Hears Range of Views on "Globalization and the "State
05/11/2001
Sixth Committee Hears of Proposed Treaty on Transboundary Harm Resulting from Hazardous Activities; Law Commission Chairman Sees Prevention as Primary Aim, with Likely Impact on International Environmental Rules
05/11/2001
International Narcotics Control Board Meets in Vienna to Look at How Globalisation and New Technology Has Changed the Drug Trade
05/11/2001
Week-long Headquarters Event to Focus on Treaties Related to Terrorism
05/11/2001
Press Statement on Liberia by President of Security Council
02/11/2001
More Delegates Urge Restriction of Security Council Veto, as General Assembly Concludes Reform Debate; Other Changes in Working Methods Also Called for as Needed Response to Changing International Situation
02/11/2001
Action on Second Committee Hears International Panel on Public-service Reforms
02/11/2001
Action on State Responsibility for Wrongful Acts Needs More Study, Legal Committee Is Told; United States Urges Caution; Others Commend Progress Made by International Law Commission, Seek Framing of Convention
02/11/2001
Third Committee Approves Four Draft Resolutions on Women’s Issues, Two on Crime Prevention, Criminal Justice
02/11/2001
Israeli Restrictions Placed on Palestine Relief and Works Agency Criticized by Speakers in Fourth Committee; Say Refugee Suffering Exacerbated by Measures; Israel Defends Actions, Citing Country’s Larger Security Concerns
02/11/2001
Stressing Respect for Somalia’s Sovereignty, Independence, Unity, Security Council Reaffirms Commitment to Comprehensive Settlement;arta Peace Process Most Viable Basis for Peace, Reconciliation, Says Council President
02/11/2001
Security Council Reaffirms Support for Enhanced Women’s Role in Conflict Prevention, Resolution; Adopts Presidential Statement S/prst/2001/31
02/11/2001
Employment Must Be Central Goal in Development Strategies, Secretary-General Tells Global Employment Forum
02/11/2001
Secretary-General Calls Installation of Transitional Government "A Defining "Moment for Burundi
01/11/2001
New Permanent Representative of Ireland Presents Credentials
01/11/2001
Need for Security Council Reform Given New Impetus by Recent Events, General Assembly Is Told; Speakers Regret Continued Impasse in Formulation of Proposal; Self-interest of Veto-holders, Lack of Political Commitment Cited
01/11/2001
General Assembly Is Told Permanent Security Council Members Must Respond to Widespread Unease Over Veto Procedure; Reform Debate Continues; Increase in Membership Widely Supported, but Speakers Express Concern to Maintain Efficiency
01/11/2001
Allocation of Significant Resources Testifies to Importance of UN Peacekeeping, Fifth Committee Told as It Concludes Peacekeeping Discussion
01/11/2001
Mercenaries Often A Presence in Terrorist Attacks, Special Rapporteur Tells Third Committee as It Begins Discussions on Self-determination; Committee Chairman Proposes Postponement of Racism, Racial Discrimination Issues
01/11/2001
Tentative Schedule of Meetings of United Nations Bodies in November 2001
01/11/2001
Stressing Respect for Somalia’s Sovereignty, Independence, Unity, Security Council Reaffirms Commitment to Comprehensive Settlement; Arta Peace Process Most Viable Basis for Peace, Reconciliation, Says Council President
01/11/2001
Security Council Reaffirms Support for Enhanced Women’s Role in Conflict Prevention, Resolution; Adopts Presidential Statement S/prst/2001/31
01/11/2001
Council Endorses Proposal to Declare East Timor’s Independence 20 May 2002; Presidential Statement Welcomes Political Progress, Agrees on Potential Destabilizing Impact of Premature International Withdrawal
01/11/2001
President of United Nations Security Council and Chairman of Military Staff Committee in November
31/12/2001
Hans Haekkerup, Head of UN Kosovo Mission, to Depart at End of 2001; Secretary-General Expresses Regret, Deep Appreciation for Service
27/12/2001
Security Council Committee Concerning Afghanistan Issues First Addendum to Its New Consolidated List
27/12/2001
General Assembly Adopts $2.63 Billion Budget for 2002-2003; Winds up Regular Session
27/12/2001
11 September Attacks Failed to Deflect Assembly from Pursuit of Global Peace, Says President of Fifty-sixth Session
24/12/2001
Opinion Emerging for More Active United Nations Role in Angola Peace Process, Says Under-secretary-General, During Briefing of Security Council
24/12/2001
Security Council Members Highlight African Issues, Transparency, Better Targeted Sanctions, Counter-terrorism in Wrap-up Meeting
24/12/2001
West African Leaders Express Firm Commitment Against Organized Crime; Ecowas Heads of State and Government Take Action on Trafficking in Human Beings, Corruption and Money Laundering at Dakar Summit
24/12/2001
Acting on Second Committee Reports, Assembly Adopts 38 Texts; Resolutions on Palestinian Natural Resources, Coercive Economic Measures Adopted by Recorded Vote; Action on Multilingualism Draft Deferred
24/12/2001
General Assembly Calls for Increased International Assistance for Afghanistan on Condition Interim Authority Honours Bonn Agreement
21/12/2001
Economic and Social Council Fills Vacancies in Subsidiary Bodies, Adopts Resolutions on Crime, Economic, Environmental Issues
21/12/2001
International Community Must Maintain Commitment to Afghanistan, Say Speakers in General Assembly; Pakistan Warns of Dangers Inherent in Yet Another Abandonment of People of Afghanistan
21/12/2001
General Assembly Emergency Session on Occupied Palestinian Territories Calls for Halt to Violence, "Mitchell "Report Implementations; Also Reiterates Applicability of 1949 Geneva Convention to Territories
21/12/2001
Budget Committee Approves Seven Draft Resolutions on Tribunals, Dues Payments, UN Common System, Internal Oversight, Political Missions
21/12/2001
Security Council Authorizes International Security Force for Afghanistan; Welcomes United Kingdom’s Offer to Be Initial Lead Nation; Resolution 1386 (2001) Adopted Unanimously
21/12/2001
Press Statement by President of Security Council on Repatriation of Kuwaiti, Third-country Nationals and Return of Kuwaiti Properties
21/12/2001
Secretary-General Outlines Vision for Building Secure Future in Report for World Summit on Sustainable Development
21/12/2001
UN Welcomes Growing Partnership with West African Economic Community, Says Secretary-General in Message to Dakar Meeting
21/12/2001
"I Want to See Strong and Focused Responses to People’s Real Needs in Every Area, Including "Health, Secretary-General Says
20/12/2001
Press Statement on Democratic Republic of the Congo by President of Security Council
20/12/2001
Significant Progress in the Fight Against Trafficking in Human Beings in West African States; Ecowas Ministerial Meeting in Dakar Adopts Political Declaration and Plan of Action Agreed in October by the Joint Ecowas - Unodccp/cicp Expert Group
20/12/2001
General Assembly Reiterates Condemnation of Terrorism; Adopts 65 Resolutions on Social, Humanitarian Issues, 16 by Recorded Vote; Subjects Include Human Rights, Refugees, Globalization, Ageing, Drug and Crime Control, Women’s Issues, Youth, Disabled
20/12/2001
Luxembourg to Support Drug Control Projects in Viet Nam and Mexico; the First Country Using Assets Seized from Drug-related Criminal Activities to Finance Undcp-run Programmes
20/12/2001
Security Council Voices Full Support for Office of Special Representative of Secretary-General for West Africa; in Presidential Statement, Council Also Stresses Need to Strengthen Capacities of Economic Community of West African States
20/12/2001
Security Council, in Presidential Statement, Condemns Plundering of Natural Resources in Democratic Republic of Congo; Requests Six-month Renewal for Expert Investigative Panel
20/12/2001
Security Council Extends Prohibition of Import of Sierra Leone Rough Diamonds for 11 Months, Beginning 5 January 2002; Unanimously Adopts Resolution 1385 (2001)
19/12/2001
Security Council Expresses Broad Support for Proposed UN West Africa Office, Integrated Approach to Subregional Problems
19/12/2001
Draft Decisions on 2002-2003 Budget Estimates, Political Missions Approved by Fifth Committee
14/12/2001
Agreement Signed by United Nations and Uzbekistan to Speed up Delivery of Urgently Needed Humanitarian Aid to Afghanistan
14/12/2001
Assembly Adopts 14 Resolutions on Strengthening Coordination of Humanitarian, Disaster Relief Assistance
14/12/2001
General Assembly Urges Member States to Support IAEA in Preventing Acts of Nuclear-related Terrorism; Several Delegations Advocate Strengthening Coordination of Economic and Social Council, Other UN Bodies
14/12/2001
Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict to Visit Northern Ireland
14/12/2001
Commission on Narcotic Drugs Approves UN Drug Control Programme (undcp) Budget
14/12/2001
Security Council Extends Cyprus Mission Until 15 June 2002, Unanimously Adopting Resolution 1384 (2001)
14/12/2001
Democratic Republic of Congo Asserts Right to Seek Help in Defence of Natural Wealth Against Outside Forces; Day-long Security Council Meeting on Panel Report Hears Allegations of Exploitation, Denials by Countries Accused
14/12/2001
Security Council Fails to Adopt Resolution on Middle East Situation, to Condemn Use of Force, Encourage Monitoring Mechanism; United States, Exercising Veto, Says Text Sought to Isolate One Party, Failed to Mention Acts of Terrorism Against Israel
14/12/2001
Secretary-General Regrets United States Decision to Withdraw from Abm Treaty
13/12/2001
Assembly Backs Effort towards Global Law Against Reproductive Cloning of Human Beings, Study Group to Be Established; Other Actions Also Taken on Legal Committee Recommendations; Work to Continue on Comprehensive Convention Against Terrorism
13/12/2001
In Message for International Migrants Day, Secretary-General Calls for Wider Support for Global Covenant on Rights of Migrant Workers; Migration Called ’Fact of ’Life of Modern World, Positive Factor for Host and Home Countries; Exploitation of
12/12/2001
Assembly Seeks Observance of Olympic Truce During Winter Games in Salt Lake City; Sporting Virtues Said to Match UN Ideals; Action Also Taken on Global Partnerships; Debate Begins on Central America Situation, Support for Efforts on Behalf of New Democra
12/12/2001
Continuing Consideration of Draft Resolutions, Second Committee Approves Six Texts
12/12/2001
Press Statement by Security Council President on Burundi
12/12/2001
Secretary-General, in Message to Kosovo’s Inaugural Assembly Session, Says "This Is A Day of "Hope and Occasion for Renewed Resolve
12/12/2001
Secretary-General, Describing Broad Challenges Facing United Nations, Tells Oslo Meeting "We Must Move Ahead as "Partners to Achieve Goals
12/12/2001
East Timor’s Memorable Journey from Heartbreak to Independence Near End Says Secretary-General, as He Urges Long-term Engagement from Donors
12/12/2001
Must Ensure Mountain Regions Provide Their Riches for Many Generations to Come, Says Secretary-General, in Message for Year of Mountains (2002)
12/12/2001
Secretary-General Highlights "Eternal Humanitarian Principles Embodied by Conventional Weapons Convention, in Message to Review Conference
11/12/2001
Assembly Selects 5 States to Submit Candidates for Joint Inspection Unit: China, United Republic of Tanzania, Cuba, Russian Federation, United States; Also Hears Introduction of Draft Text on Restitution of Cultural Property
11/12/2001
Israeli Practices, Palestine Relief Agency, Information, Decolonization, Among Issues Addressed, as General Assembly Adopts 28 Texts
11/12/2001
Fifth Committee Completes Debate on Budgets for Tribunals for Rwanda, Former Yugoslavia; Temporary Commitment Authority Proposed Concern Expressed at High Level of Requested Appropriations; Draft Introduced on Financing United Nations Interim Force in Le
11/12/2001
Without Vote, Second Committee Approves Four Draft Resolutions; Texts Cover Biodiversity Convention, International Cooperation for Development, Renewable Energy, Technical Cooperation Among Developing Countries
11/12/2001
"We Can Love What We Are, Without Hating What - and WHO - We Are "Not, Secretary-General Says in Nobel Lecture
10/12/2001
Fifth Committee Begins Consideration of 2002-2003 Budgets of International Tribunals for Former Yugoslavia, Rwanda; Speakers Express Concern at Tribunal Vacancy Rates; Also Takes up Budget Implications on UN Radio Broadcasting Expansion
10/12/2001
Second Committee Approves Drafts on Small Island Developing States, Public Administration On-line Network, Review of UNCTAD
10/12/2001
In Rush for Story, Some Journalists Miss History, Human Rights Commissioner Tells United Nations Media Forum; Coverage of Durban Conference Discussed; Renewed Focus on Middle East Situation, Afghanistan, Terrorism Also Reviewed by International Panel
10/12/2001
The Secretary-General: the Nobel Lecture, Oslo, 10 December, 2001
10/12/2001
Launch of International Year of Mountains to Take Place at Headquarters
10/12/2001
International Year of Volunteers 2001 and the International Day of Human Rights to Be Observed at the VIC
10/12/2001
Assembly Votes on United Nations Role in Nuclear- Test-ban Treaty Preparations; European Union Regrets United States Demurral; U.s. Also Withholds Support on Cooperation with Council of Europe, Citing Reservations Over References to International Crimina
10/12/2001
Donor Countries Pledge $47.24 Million to Unrwa’s Regular Budget for 2002, $6.83 Million for Emergency Appeal
07/12/2001
New Permanent Representative of Japan Presents Credentials
07/12/2001
Following Terrorist Attacks, Assembly Told Global Norms Against Proliferation, Use of Weapons of Mass Destruction Must Be Strengthened; Assembly Hears Total of 13 Reports, 11 Resolutions as It Considers Cooperation Between United Nations, Other Organizat
07/12/2001
UN Cooperation with Islamic Conference Crucial for Breaking Afghanistan’s Vicious Cycle of War, General Assembly Told; Hears 20 More Speakers on Cooperation with Council of Europe, Inter-parliamentary Union, Organization of La Francophonie, Among Ot
07/12/2001
Security Council Endorses Afghanistan Agreement on Interim Arrangements Signed Yesterday in Bonn, Unanimously Adopting Resolution 1383 (2001); Also Declares Willingness to Take Further Action, Calls on All Afghan Groups to Cooperate with Interim Authorit
07/12/2001
Press Statement on Central African Republic by Security Council President
06/12/2001
New Permanent Representative of Ghana Presents Credentials
06/12/2001
New Permanent Representative of Mauritius Presents Credentials
06/12/2001
Marking End of International Year of Volunteers, General Assembly Encourages All People to Become More Engaged in Voluntary Activities; Resolution Continuing Recommendations for Volunteer Action Adopted Without A Vote
06/12/2001
Peacekeeping Assistant Secretary-General Briefs Security Council on Progress in Bosnia and Herzegovina Mission; Secretary-General’s Report Suggests Follow-up Mission After 2002 Should Be Regional Responsibility
06/12/2001
Press Statement on Afghanistan Agreement by Security Council President
06/12/2001
Secretary-General Says United Action Against Terrorism Has Universal Human Rights Dimension; Violations Are Warning of Future Conflict; Rights Day Message, Noting Award of Nobel Peace Prize to United Nations, Urges Respect for All People, Renewed Efforts
06/12/2001
Secretary-General "Warmly ’Welcomes Signing of ?provisional Arrangments in "Afghanistan
06/12/2001
"Magnificent "Contribution of Volunteers in Advancing UN Ideals Cited by Secretary-General in Remarks at Headquarters Event
05/12/2001
True Afghan Peace Not Possible Without Restoration of Women’s Rights Says Secretary-General in Message to Brussels Summit
05/12/2001
Bonn Freshwater Meeting to Contribute to Johannesburg Summit on Sustainable Development
05/12/2001
General Assembly Decides to Consider Further Measures for Implementation, Monitoring of Initiatives on Africa; Concluding Consideration of Conflict, Durable Peace, Sustainable Development in Africa, Speakers Stress Importance of New, Positive Structures
05/12/2001
Second Committee Approves 13 Development-related Draft Texts; Drafts on Natural Resources of Palestinian People, Economic Measures as Means of Coercion Approved by Recorded Vote
05/12/2001
Parliamentarians "Can Help Nations Rise Above Differences and Work "Together Secretary-General Says
05/12/2001
Secretary-General Pleased at Agreement to Start Direct Negotiations by Parites in Cyprus
05/12/2001
Secretary-General, Concerned by Cycle of Violence in Middle East, Urges Israelis, Palestinians to Live up to Earlier Commitments
05/12/2001
Ismat Kittani’s Death Deep Loss to United Nations Family Says Secretary-General at New York Memorial Service
04/12/2001
Concluding Consideration of Question of Palestine, Situation in Mid-east, Assembly Adopts Six Draft Texts by Recorded Vote
04/12/2001
General Assembly Told Economic Growth Would Ease Conflict Situations, Aid Sustainable Development in Africa; Draft Resolution Introduced on Ways to Promote Peace and Progress
04/12/2001
Third Committee Concludes Session by Approving Draft Resolutions on Human Rights in Myanmar, Afghanistan, Iraq, Democratic Republic of Congo; Decides to Resume Session in 2002 to Consider Racism Issues; Also Approves Drafts on Terrorism, Women, Disabled
04/12/2001
Secretary-General Condemns Bombings in Jerusalem, Haifa as Terrorism; Calls on Palestinian Authority to Bring Those Responsible to Justice
04/12/2001
Secretary-General "Joins Millions of Other Fans in Giving "Thanks for George Harrison’s Life
04/12/2001
Greek, Turkish Cypriot Leaders to Meet on 4 December
04/12/2001
Secretary-General’s Special Envoy Encourages Development of Dialogue in Myanmar
04/12/2001
"United Nations Is Urgently Engaged in Helping Afghanistan Embark on A New "Beginning, Secretary-General Says on Receiving Fulbright Prize
03/12/2001
Secretary-General, in Message for Day of Disabled Persons, Says Goal Is "Society for "All, Recognizing Skills with No Discrimination
03/12/2001
Secretary-General Disturbed by Upsurge in Middle East Violence; Condemns Attacks on Civilians, Extrajudicial Killings
03/12/2001
"There Is Hope - and There Is Reason for "Hope in Fight Against AIDS, Says Secretary-General in New York Address
03/12/2001
General Assembly Is Told Solution to Question of Palestine Remains Crucial to Overall Middle East Settlement; Israeli Withdrawal from Occupied Lands Said to Be Essential; Appeals Made for End to All Violence, Resumption of Negotiations
03/12/2001
Despite Year of Setbacks, Path to Middle East Peace Remains Open, Israeli Representative Tells General Assembly; Calls for "Dark Forces of "Rejection to Be Set Aside; Others Stress Need for End to Israeli Settlement Policies, Occupation of Arab
03/12/2001
Second Committee Hears Views of Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Countries, Small Island Developing States; Delegates Continue to Weigh Follow-up to Brussels Ldc Conference
03/12/2001
Third Committee Approves Eight Draft Resolutions on Human Rights, Right to Development, Globalization, Iran, Sudan
03/12/2001
UN to Present Award to Grassroots Leaders in Fight Against Drug Abuse, Crime, Terrorism
03/12/2001
Tentative Schedule of Meetings of United Nations Bodies in December 2001
03/12/2001
Transparency, Impact of Ministerial-level Sessions Among Issues Addressed, as Security Council Meets to Review Work During November
03/12/2001
President of United Nations Security Council and Chairman of Military Staff Committee in December
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