UNDER-SECRETARY-GENERAL MEETS UGANDAN PRESIDENT OVER TRUCE WITH NORTHERN REBELS

KAMPALA, 8 December (OCHA) -- Jan Egeland, United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator and Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, met with President Yoweri Museveni in Kampala yesterday.

SECRETARY-GENERAL STUDIES ETHIOPIAN PROPOSAL ON BOUNDARY COMMISSION

Following is a statement attributable to the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

Further to the Secretary-General’s statement of 26 November, he has studied the five-point proposal that the Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi submitted to Parliament on 25 November.

SECURITY COUNCIL COMMITTEE ON CÔTE D’IVOIRE BEGINS WORK, DRAWS

 

ATTENTION TO ARMS EMBARGO IMPOSED BY RESOLUTION 1572

 

The Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1572 (2004) concerning Côte d’Ivoire, held its first meeting today, 6 December 2004.

The Committee’s task is to oversee the implementation of the measures imposed on Côte d’Ivoire by resolution 1572 (2004) as follows:

Secretary-General disturbed by increasing tension

 

between Democratic Republic of Congo, rwanda

 

Following is a statement attributable to the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

UN studying peace plan submitted to Ethiopian Parliament

 

on 25 November, aimed at resolving conflict with Eritrea

 

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

‘GLIMMERS OF HOPE’ IN AFRICA NOT ENOUGH - LASTING PEACE MUST BE ESTABLISHED,

 

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN MESSAGE TO LA FRANCOPHONIE SUMMIT

 

(Delayed for translation of text, originally delivered in French.)

Special Representative of Secretary-General deeply

 

concerned at escalating violence in Darfur

 

Following is the text of a statement by the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Sudan on the latest upsurge of violence in Darfur:

Secretary-General pledges United Nations support in quest for peace,

stability, democracy, development in great lakes region

 

Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s remarks at the closing of the International Conference on Peace, Security, Democracy and Development in the Great Lakes Region, held in Dar-es-Salaam on 20 November 2004:

The Dar-es-Salaam Declaration of Principles holds great promise.

Secretary-General ‘absolutely outraged’ by gross misconduct

by peacekeeping personnel in Democratic Republic of Congo

 

Following is the statement by Secretary-General Kofi Annan on allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse in the United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC), issued today in Dar es Salaam, United Republic of Tanzania:

Secretary-General, in message to conference on cooperation with west African

children, hails education as building block, catalyst for development

Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message to the conference:  “From war to classroom.  From crisis to recovery.  Italian cooperation for West African children”, in Freetown, Sierra Leone, today 19 November: