DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO:  SECRETARY-GENERAL CALLS STRENGTHENING

 

OF MISSION AN IMPORTANT STEP, BUT WELL BELOW RECOMMENDED CEILING

 

Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s remarks to the Security Council on the Democratic Republic of the Congo today, 1 October:

NEW UNCTAD STUDY MAKES CASE FOR AFRICAN DEBT WRITE-OFF

 

(Reissued as received.)

New Africa report urges industrial nations to play fair

 

Secretary-General expresses regret at ‘very limited progress’

on legislative reforms in Côte d’Ivoire

 

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

Secretary-General’s message to memorial for ex-UNITAR chief

The following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message to a memorial ceremony in honour of Chief Simeon Ola Adebo in Lagos today, 28 September 2004, as delivered by Marcel Boisard, Executive Director of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR):

Security Council Press Statement on Côte d’Ivoire

 

The following Security Council press statement on Côte d’Ivoire was delivered today by President Juan Antonio Yañez-Barnuevo (Spain):

New Flood Busting Project for Africa’s LimpopoRiver Unveiled

 

(Reissued as received.)

MAPUTO/NAIROBI, 27 September (UNEP) -- A multimillion-dollar project to reduce the impacts of flooding on the lower LimpopoRiver was announced today.

SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN VISITING SUDAN

 

(Reissued as received.)

GENEVA, 27 September (UN Information Service) -- Yakin Ertürk, the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, issued the following statement today:

Urgent task is to do everything possible to help protect THE people of Darfur

 

from Violence, human rights abuse, Secretary-General tells Security Council

Following is the text of remarks, as delivered today by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the Security Council meeting on the situation in Africa:

Statement by Ministerial meeting of International Committee

 

supporting transition in Democratic Republic of Congo

Following is the statement issued today by the Ministerial-Level Meeting of the Members of the International Committee in Support of the Transition in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: