AFRICA’S DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIP, NEEDS OF WORLD’S POOREST COUNTRIES

FOCUS OF DISCUSSION AT HEADQUARTERS MEETING

SECRETARY-GENERAL CONGRATULATES NEW KENYAN PRESIDENT,

COMMENDS WELL ORGANIZED, CREDIBLE ELECTORAL PROCESS

The following statement, issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan, was also issued earlier in Nairobi:

SECRETARY-GENERAL DISTURBED THAT FIGHTING CONTINUES IN DEMOCRATIC

REPUBLIC OF CONGO DESPITE 16 DECEMBER CEASEFIRE ACCORD

Those Violating Humanitarian Law

Will Be Held Accountable for Their Actions, He Warns

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

PRESS STATEMENT ON DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO BY PRESIDENT OF SECURITY COUNCIL

Following is the text of the press statement made today by Alfonso Valdivieso (Colombia), President of the Security Council, on the Democratic Republic of the Congo:

Members of the Council were briefed by the Secretariat regarding recent developments in the DRC.

PRESS STATEMENT ON DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT

Following is today’s statement to the press by Security Council President Alfonso Valdivieso (Colombia):

The members of the Security Council:

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES ACCORD ON POWER-SHARING

IN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL AND GOVERNMENT OF SIERRA LEONE ANNOUNCE ELECTION

OF PRESIDING JUDGES, APPOINTMENT OF REGISTRAR FOR SPECIAL COURT

                                                            SG/SM/8550/Rev.1*

PRESS STATEMENT ON CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC, CHAD

BY PRESIDENT OF SECURITY COUNCIL

Following is the text of yesterday’s press statement on the Central African Republic and Chad by Alfonso Valdivieso (Colombia), President of the Security Council:

Members of the Security Council heard successively the Prime Minister of the Central African Republic, Martin Ziguele, and the Permanent Representative of Chad, Koumtog Laotegguelnodgi.

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES CEASEFIRE AGREEMENT IN BURUNDI

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