PRESS STATEMENT ON DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT

Following is today’s press statement on the Democratic Republic of the Congo by Security Council President Emyr Jones Parry (United Kingdom):

Members of the Security Council:

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES RELEASE OF WAR PRISONERS BY FRENTE POLISARIO

The following statement was issued by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan on 1 September:

The Secretary-General welcomes the release by the Frente Polisario of 243 prisoners of war who were repatriated today to the Kingdom of Morocco by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES SMOOTH TRANSFER OF SECURITY RESPONSIBILITIES

IN EASTERN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES RWANDA ELECTION AS IMPORTANT

STEP TOWARDS PLURALISTIC, MULTIPARTY DEMOCRACY

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

PRESS STATEMENT ON LIBERIA TIMBER SANCTIONS BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT

Following is the statement to the press on the possible humanitarian and socio-economic impact of the Liberian timber sanctions delivered today by Security Council President Fayssal Mekdad (Syria):

PRESS STATEMENT BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT ON ARMS EMBARGO IN SOMALIA

Following is today’s statement to the press by Security Council President Fayssal Mekdad (Syria) on the midterm report of the panel of experts established to investigate violations of the arms embargo in Somalia, pursuant to resolution 1474 (2003):

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES LIBERIA PEACE AGREEMENT

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

PRESS STATEMENT ON BURUNDI BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT

Following is the press statement on the situation in Burundi delivered by Security Council President Mikhail Wehbe (Syria):

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES RESIGNATION OF PRESIDENT CHARLES TAYLOR; HOPES

EVENT MARKS BEGINNING OF END FOR LIBERIA’S ‘LONG NIGHTMARE’

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

‘WITHOUT URGENT ACTION MORE LIVES WILL BE LOST’ SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL,

AS UN HUMANITARIAN AGENCIES REQUEST EMERGENCY FUNDS FOR LIBERIA

Following is the Kofi Annan’s message for the launch of the Revised Humanitarian Appeal for Liberia, delivered by Jacques Paul Klein, his Special Representative for Liberia, in New York on 6 August: