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 welcomes nato, eu airlift of African union peacekeepers into darfur;

also welcomes resumption of negotiations on political settlement

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.)

Secretary-General urges respect for electoral outcome in ethiopia

 

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

Un reports SUCCESS IN ETHIOPIAN CHILD SURVIVAL PROGRAMME

 

SECRETARY-GENERAL CONDEMNS ADDIS ABABA VIOLENCE, CALLS FOR CALM

WHILE ELECTION IRREGULARITIES ARE INVESTIGATED

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

ATTACKS AGAINST CIVILIANS CAUSE NEW DISPLACEMENTS IN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO

Secretary-General welcomes United States, United Kingdom initiative

 

for significant increase in Africa emergency funding

 

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

Security Council press statement on Côte d’Ivoire

 

Following is the press statement on Côte d’Ivoire delivered by Council President Jean-Marc de La Sablière (France):

The members of the Security Council heard a briefing by Hédi Annabi, Assistant Secretary-General, on the massacres that occurred in the region of Duékoué, in the West of Côte d’Ivoire.