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Fifty-eighth General Assembly                              

TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF RWANDA GENOCIDE SHOULD PROMPT REMORSE, RESOLVE

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL TO OTTAWA SYMPOSIUM

Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message to the Symposium on the Media and the Rwanda Genocide at Carleton University School of Journalism and Communication in Ottawa, 13 March:

Commission on the Status of Women                          

Forty-eighth Session                                       

16^th Meeting (PM)

VIENNA MEETING CALLS FOR ENHANCED EFFORTS AGAINST TERRORISM

UN, OSCE Agree to Expand Joint Counter-Terrorism Activities

(Reissued as received.)

‘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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