This is an announcement for the paper "On remotality for convex sets in Banach spaces" by Miguel Martin and T.S.S.R.K. Rao. Abstract: We show that every infinite dimensional Banach space has a closed and bounded convex set that is not remotal. Archive classification: math.FA Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary 46B20, Secondary 41A50 Remarks: 5 pages, to appear in the Journal of Approximation Theory The source file(s), Arxiv-2009-09-10-nonremotal.tex: 16101 bytes, is(are) stored in gzipped form as 0909.1992.gz with size 6kb. The corresponding postcript file has gzipped size 73kb. Submitted from: mmartins@ugr.es The paper may be downloaded from the archive by web browser from URL http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/0909.1992 or http://arXiv.org/abs/0909.1992 or by email in unzipped form by transmitting an empty message with subject line uget 0909.1992 or in gzipped form by using subject line get 0909.1992 to: math@arXiv.org.