03/01/2000 (Agence Europe) - "The Millennium Assembly will mark a unique opportunity for the world's leaders to seize: namely to look beyond their own preoccupations, however pressing, and to try to envisage the kind of UN they would like to see, and be prepared to support, into the next century", said UN Secretary General Kofi Annan on 31 December. He recalled that the UN has decided to designate its 55th session, which begins on 5 September 2000, as the "Millennium assembly" and to hold a...