FREETOWN CONFERENCE URGES IMPROVEMENTS IN DISARMAMENT, DEMOBILIZATION,

REINTEGRATION PROGRAMMES IN AFRICA

(Received from a UN Information Officer.)

SECURITY COUNCIL PRESS STATEMENT ON GUINEA-BISSAU

 

Following is the Security Council press statement on Guinea-Bissau, delivered today Council President Jean-Marc de La Sablière (France):

SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES GOVERNMENT TO EXPEDITE ELECTORAL PROCESS

IN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO

 

The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

SECRETARY-GENERAL APPOINTS UN-HABITAT HEAD AS SPECIAL ENVOY

FOR HUMAN SETTLEMENTS ISSUES IN ZIMBABWE

 

The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES PEACEFUL PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IN GUINEA-BISSAU

The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

CONFERENCE ON DISARMAMENT, DEMOBILIZATION, REINTEGRATION, STABILITY

IN AFRICA TO CONVENE IN SIERRA LEONE, 21 - 23 JUNE

 

SIGNIFICANT FUNDING SHORTFALL AS REFUGEES CONTINUE TO ARRIVE IN BENIN

More than ever, Africa needs international support to end vicious cycle

 

of underdevelopment, Secretary-General tells PARIS ministerial meeting

Following is the text of the message by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the Ministerial Meeting on the Follow-up to the Africa-France Summit in Paris, delivered today by Tuliameni Kalomoh, Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs:

Secretary-General ‘seriously concerned’ by forcible return

 

to Rwanda of 5,000 asylum seekers

 

The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

UNFPA Project Launched to Prevent HIV/AIDS Transmission in Post-Conflict Border

 

Areas of Guinea, Liberia, Côte d’Ivoire and Sierra Leone

(Reissued as received.)