Press Release

SECRETARY-GENERAL CONCERNED BY ALARMING DETERIORATION

OF SECURITY, HUMAN RIGHTS IN HAITI

The following statement was issued by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan on 27 February:

SECRETARY-GENERAL PAYS TRIBUTE TO DEVOTION, HONESTY, GENEROSITY OF LATE JEAN-SÉLIM

KANAAN, AS FRANCE HONOURS UN STAFF MEMBER WITH POSTHUMOUS LEGION OF HONOUR

Following is the message of Secretary-General Kofi Annan, translated from French, on the occasion of the posthumous award of the Legion of Honour to Jean-Sélim Kanaan, read by Iqbal Riza, Chef de Cabinet, in Geneva, 27 February:

PRESIDENT OF UNITED NATIONS SECURITY COUNCIL AND CHAIRMAN

OF MILITARY STAFF COMMITTEE IN MARCH

In accordance with the principle of alphabetical rotation, the following are the President of the United Nations Security Council and the Chairman of the Military Staff Committee for March:

Security Council

UNITED NATIONS AGENCIES APPLAUD NEW POLITICAL

FOCUS ON HUNGER AND RURAL POVERTY

(Reissued as received.)

PARIS/ROME, 1 March (FAO/WFP/IFAD) -- In a meeting today with French President Jacques Chirac, the heads of the three Rome-based UN food agencies welcomed the renewed vigour with which hunger and rural poverty are being addressed.

OUTER SPACE SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL SUBCOMMITTEE CONCLUDES 41^ST SESSION IN VIENNA

Reviews Implementation of Recommendations

Of UNISPACE III, Discusses Space-based Telemedicine

(Reissued as received.)

Ad Hoc Committee on Jurisdictional                         

Immunities of States and Their Property                    

7^th Meeting (AM)

AD HOC COMMITTEE NEGOTIATING CONVENTION ON JURISDICTIONAL

Security Council

4919^th Meeting (Night)

SECURITY COUNCIL AUTHORIZES DEPLOYMENT OF MULTINATIONAL FORCE TO HAITI

FOR 3 MONTHS, UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTING RESOLUTION 1529 (2004)

Declares Readiness to Establish Follow on Stabilization

Force to Support Peaceful, Consitutional Political Process

SECRETARY-GENERAL OFFERS UN’S CONTINUED COMMITMENT AS AFRICAN UNION

BEGINS CONSOLIDATING COMMON STRATEGY FOR PEACE, SECURITY

Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message to the extraordinary session of the Assembly of the African Union, in Sirte, 27 February, delivered by Tuliameni Kalomoh, United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs.

STRENGTHENED UN PRESENCE IN CÔTE D’IVOIRE WILL FACILITATE HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE,

RESTORATION OF STATE AUTHORITY, SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS SECURITY COUNCIL

Following is the statement by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the Security Council meeting on Côte d’Ivoire today: