Africa

EIGHT UN HUMAN RIGHTS EXPERTS GRAVELY CONCERNED ABOUT REPORTED

WIDESPREAD ABUSES IN DARFUR, SUDAN

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GENEVA, 26 March (UN Information Service) -- The following statement was issued today by eight fact-finding experts of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights:

RWANDA GENOCIDE ‘MUST LEAVE US ALWAYS WITH A SENSE OF BITTER REGRET AND ABIDING

SORROW’, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL TO NEW YORK MEMORIAL CONFERENCE

Following are Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s remarks at the Memorial Conference on the Rwanda Genocide, organized by the Governments of Canada and Rwanda in New York, 26 March:

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PRESS STATEMENT ON CÔTE D’IVOIRE BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT

The following press statement on Côte d’Ivoire was delivered today by Security Council President Jean-Marc de La Sablière (France):

The members of the Security Council expressed grave concern at the events that occurred in Côte d’Ivoire, in particular in Abidjan, on 25 March.

MULTIFACETED REGIONAL APPROACH NEEDED TO COMBAT SUBREGIONAL, CROSS-BORDER PROBLEMS

IN WEST AFRICA, SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS SECURITY COUNCIL DEBATE ON ISSUE

Following is the text of remarks today by Secretary-General Kofi Annan at the open debate of the Security Council on “Ways to combat subregional and cross-border problems in West Africa”:

SECRETARY-GENERAL DEEPLY DISTURBED AT LOSS OF LIFE IN COTED’IVOIRE DEMONSTRATIONS

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL APPEALS FOR REDUCTION OF TENSIONS IN CÔTE D’IVOIRE

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

EMERGENCY RELIEF COORDINATOR CONDEMNS KILLING OF AID WORKER IN SOMALIA

NEW YORK, 23 March (OCHA) -– The international humanitarian community is condemning an attack in Somaliland which has left one aid worker dead and two others injured.  On 19 March, staff of the German Agency for Technical Assistance were ambushed outside Berabera in Somaliland.

SECRETARY-GENERAL DISPATCHES ENVOY TO EQUATORIAL GUINEA

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

PRESS STATEMENT ON BURUNDI BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT

Following is today’s statement to the press on Burundi by Security Council President Jean-Marc de La Sablière (France):

This morning, members of the Security Council heard a statement by Mr.Sadry, head of the United Nations Reconnaissance Mission recently sent by the Secretary-General to Burundi, on recent developments in the situation in that country.