General Assembly president calls for efficiency. We're all New Yorkers. Vladimir Petrovsky on streamlining the UN in Geneva. Manhattan traffic alert, it'll be awful. Millennium Summit promises to highlight development and poverty issues.
Religious leaders call for peace.
Annan calls on parliamentarians to think globally. NGOs call for plan of action at conference in New York. UN calls Millennium Summit largest gathering of world leaders ever. Fierce contest for UN seats. Post-Seattle, a new blast at World Trade Organization.