SECRETARY-GENERAL ENCOURAGES CONTINUATION OF TROOP WITHDRAWAL

FROM DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL DEEPLY CONCERNED AT RAPIDLY DETERIORATING

FLOOD SITUATION IN MOZAMBIQUE

Appeals to Governments and Private Sector to Respond Urgently

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

UNITED NATIONS TO SEND INTER-AGENCY MISSION TO WEST AFRICA

The Secretary-General has decided to dispatch an inter-agency mission to West Africa, from 6 to 26 March, led by Ibrahima Fall, Assistant Secretary-General, Department of Political Affairs.  The mission will visit Côte d'Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo.

SECRETARY-GENERAL DISMAYED AT OUTBREAK OF RENEWED FIGHTING IN BURUNDI

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

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SC/7019

                  22 February 2001

SECRETARY-GENERAL NOTES RECENT PROGRESS IN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO,

BUT SAYS GREAT CHALLENGES AHEAD, IN STATEMENT TO SECURITY COUNCIL

     Following is the statement of Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the

21 February Security Council meeting with the Political Committee established by the July 1999 Lusaka Ceasefire Agreement on the peace process in the Democratic Republic of the Congo:

HUMAN TRAFFICKING ONE OF MOST EGREGIOUS HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS,

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN MESSAGE TO ABUJA CONFERENCE

Following is the message of Secretary-General Kofi Annan, delivered on his behalf by Mbaya Kankqenda, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Resident Coordinator, to the first Pan-African Conference on Human Trafficking in Abuja, Nigeria, on 19 February:

AFR/302*

DEV/2281

8 February 2001

AFRICAN MINISTERS OF PUBLIC SERVICE ADOPT CHARTER FOR PUBLIC SERVICE

        NEW YORK, 8 February (DESA) -- Forty-one African Ministers of Public Service unanimously adopted a Charter of Public Service for Africa at the conclusion of the third biennial Pan-African Conference of Ministers of Civil Service, held in Windhoek, Namibia, from 5 to 6 February.

                                          SG/SM/7707*