sECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES SECURITY COUNCIL PLEDGE TO HELP PARTIES IN CYPRUS

MEET COMMITMENTS UNDER SETTLEMENT PLAN

The following statement was issued by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Friday, 16 April:

Security Council                                           

COMMISSION ADOPTS RESOLUTIONS ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL, CULTURAL,

CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS, RIGHTS OF WOMEN

Approves Appointment of Special Rapporteur

On Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children

(Reissued as received.)

COMMISSION CONCLUDES GENERAL DEBATE ON ADVISORY SERVICES

AND TECHNICAL COOPERATION IN FIELD OF HUMAN RIGHTS

Experts on Liberia, Somalia, Cambodia, Haiti Present Reports;

General Debate on Rationalization of Work of Commission Concludes

(Reissued as received.)

COMMISSION CONCLUDES GENERAL DEBATE ON PROMOTION AND PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS

Issues Concerning Capital Punishment, Anti-Terrorist Laws,

Human Rights Defenders, and Human Rights and Sexual Orientation Raised

(Reissued as received.)

Special Committee on

Peacekeeping Operations

179^th Meeting (PM)

Commission on Sustainable Development                      

Twelfth Session                                            

Disarmament Commission                                     

2004 Substantive Session                                   

HUMANITARIAN CRISIS LOOMING IN WESTERN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO

NEW YORK, 19 April (OCHA) -- A humanitarian crisis is looming as more than 40,000 Congolese have been expelled from Angola into desperate conditions in the Bandundu and WesternKasaiProvinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

PROSECUTOR RECEIVES REFERRAL OF SITUATION IN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO

(Reissued as received.)