Press Release

‘INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY MUST JOIN FORCES AGAINST TERRORISM’, SAYS EXECUTIVE

DIRECTOR OF UNODC IN STATEMENT ON TERRORIST ATTACKS IN SPAIN

(Reissued as received.)

VIENNA, 12 March (UN Information Service) -- Following is a statement by Antonio Maria Costa, Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) on the occasion of terrorist attacks in Madrid, Spain, on 11 March:

ARRANGEMENTS BEING MADE TO READ CONTENTS OF RWANDA ‘BLACK BOX’,

FOUND AT UN HEADQUARTERS

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

TOLERANCE, INTER-CULTURAL DIALOGUE, RESPECT FOR DIVERSITY MORE ESSENTIAL THAN EVER,

SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS IN MESSAGE FOR DAY TO ELIMINATE RACIAL DISCRIMINATION

Following is the message by Secretary-General Kofi Annan for the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, 21 March 2004:

ROAD MAP REMAINS ‘MOST PRACTICAL WAY’ TO ACHIEVE ASPIRATIONS OF ISRAELIS,

PALESTINIANS, SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS PALESTINIAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE

Following is today’s statement by Secretary-General Kofi Annan at the opening of the 2004 session of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People:

SECURITY COUNCIL COMMITTEE DELETES ADDRESS OF ONE ENTITY

IN AL-QAIDA SECTION OF ITS CONSOLIDATED LIST

The Al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Committee on 12 March 2004 approved the deletion of the address of one entity in the Al-Qaida section of its consolidated list (the deleted address appears as strikethrough text in the entry below).

18. *Name: AL-HARAMAIN FOUNDATION (INDONESIA)

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THE AMERICAS REAFFIRM REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH CONSENSUS

United States in Lone Dissent

(Reissued as received.)

SANTIAGO (CHILE), 11 March (UNFPA) -- By a nearly unanimous decision, countries in Latin America and the Caribbean today reaffirmed support for the population and reproductive health action plan adopted at Cairo 10 years ago.

SIXTIETH SESSION OF COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS TO BE

HELD IN GENEVA, 15 MARCH – 23 APRIL

VIENNA, 12 March (UN Information Service) -- The sixtieth session of the Commission of Human Rights will be held in Geneva from 15 March to 23 April 2004.  On the agenda is also the Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, and the follow-up to the World Conference on Human Rights, held in Vienna in 1993.