how can world community better respond should genocide loom again? asks

Deputy Secretary-General, at hEADqUARTERS rwanda panel

Following are Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette’s remarks at a panel discussion on “A Decade after Rwanda:  the United Nations and the Responsibility to Protect”, in New York, 7 April:

Thank you all for coming to the United Nations to join in the global commemoration of the tenth anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda.

Deputy Secretary-General says deep sorrow over Rwanda must be transformed

into action to ensure such descent into horror never again permitted

Following are Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette’s remarks at the meeting of the General Assembly in commemoration of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, with the participation of the President of the Security Council, in New York, 7 April:

Disarmament Commission

2004 Substantive Session

259^th Meeting (PM)

United States Tables Proposals for Agenda in Disarmament Commission

Tragedy in Rwanda underscored value of finding alternativeS to violence,

General Assembly President says at meeting on 1994 genocide

Following is the statement by General Assembly President Julian R. Hunte (Saint Lucia) at the Assembly’s meeting commemorating the International Day of Reflection on the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda today:

ICC Pays Tribute to Rwandan Victims

(Reissued as received.)

THE HAGUE, 7 April (ICC) -- Upon the occasion of the tenth Anniversary of the Genocide in Rwanda, the International Criminal Court held this morning a commemorative event in memory of the victims.

On behalf of the International Criminal Court the following statement was delivered by President Philippe Kirsch:

Panel Discussion on                                        

ACTING HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS WELCOMES APPOINTMENT

OF INDEPENDENT EXPERT ON AFGHANISTAN

(Reissued as received.)

The Secretary-General arrived in Moscow from Vienna on Sunday afternoon, 4 April, and had an early working dinner with former Prime Minister Evgeni Primakov.

Press Statement on Guinea-Bissau by Security Council President

Following is today’s statement to the press on Guinea-Bissau by Security Council President Gunter Pleuger (Germany):

Members of the Security Council heard a briefing from Mr. David Stephen, Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Peace-Building Office in Guinea-Bissau (UNOGBIS) during informal consultations on 6 April 2004.