PRESS STATEMENT ON BURUNDI BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT

Following is the press statement on Burundi, delivered today by Security Council President Adolfo Aguilar Zinser (Mexico):

SECRETARY-GENERAL COMMENDS ‘BREAKTHROUGH’, AS AGREEMENTS ON DEMOCRATIC

REPUBLIC OF CONGO ARE FORMALLY ENDORSED AT SUN CITY MEETING

Following is the message of Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the final session of the Inter-Congolese Dialogue, delivered on his behalf by his Special Envoy M. Moustapha Niasse, in Sun City, South Africa on 2 April:

COMMISSION ON BOUNDARY BETWEEN CAMEROON, NIGERIA TO MEET IN YAOUNDE, 2-3 APRIL

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

HUMANITARIAN SITUATION IN CÔTE D’IVOIRE WORSENS, SAY UN OFFICIALS

SECRETARY-GENERAL DEEPLY CONCERNED OVER FIGHTING IN LIBERIA;

URGES ALL PARTIES TO ENSURE PROTECTION OF CIVILIANS

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

PRESS STATEMENT ON CÔTE D’IVOIRE BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT

Following is the press statement on Côte d’Ivoire delivered today by Security Council President Mamady Traoré (Guinea):

Members of the Security Council are deeply concerned by the incidents that took place at Daloa on 26 March 2003 during the demonstration organized by the “Jeunes Patriotes”.

DISPLACEMENT IN CENTRAL LIBERIA COULD OVERBURDEN HUMANITARIAN RESOURCES

PRESS STATEMENT ON SIERRA LEONE BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT

Following is the press statement on Sierra Leone delivered by Security Council President Mamady Traoré (Guinea):

The members of the Council considered the situation in Sierra Leone and the situation of the United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL) on the basis of the Secretary-General’s latest report (document S/2003/321).

PRESS STATEMENT ON CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT

Following is the press statement on the Central African Republic by Security Council President Mamady Traoré (Guinea):

Members of the Security Council heard a report by the Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs, Tuliameni Kalomoh, on the situation in the Central African Republic.

Members of the Security Council strongly condemned the coup d’état on

RENEWED FIGHTING IN LIBERIA DISPLACES MORE CIVILIANS

NEW YORK, 18 March (OCHA) -- Fighting between Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy Rebels and Liberian Government forces in Liberia’s Bong County has caused an estimated 15,000 persons to flee the town of Gbarnga toward Totota, where there are already an estimated 60,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs).  There are unconfirmed reports that another