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SOC/CP/279/Rev.1

‘KHARTOUM DECLARATION ON TERRORISM AND TRANSNATIONAL ORGANIZED CRIME’ ADOPTED AT UNODC WORKSHOP IN SUDAN

26/01/2004
Press Release
SOC/CP/279/Rev.1


‘KHARTOUM DECLARATION ON TERRORISM AND TRANSNATIONAL ORGANIZED CRIME’


ADOPTED AT UNODCWORKSHOP IN SUDAN


VIENNA, 23 January (UN InformationService) -- The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and theGovernment of the Sudan jointly organized a workshop on“International Cooperation on Counter-Terrorism and the Fight against Transnational Organized Crime”, held from 17 to 19 January 2004,in Khartoum, Sudan.

SG/SM/9127

SECRETARY-GENERAL SADDENED AT DEATH OF SVEN FREDERIKSEN, HEAD OF EUROPEAN UNION POLICE MISSION TO BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

26/01/2004
Press Release
SG/SM/9127


SECRETARY-GENERAL SADDENED AT DEATH OF SVEN FREDERIKSEN, HEAD


OF EUROPEAN UNION POLICE MISSION TO BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA


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


The Secretary-General is saddened to learn that Mr. Sven Frederiksen, the Head of the European Union Police Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina, died earlier today in Sarajevo.

SG/A/863-BIO/3552

MAJOR-GENERAL ALAIN PELLEGRINI APPOINTED FORCE COMMANDER OF UNITED NATIONS INTERIM FORCE IN LEBANON (UNIFIL)

26/01/2004
Press Release
SG/A/863
BIO/3552


MAJOR-GENERAL ALAIN PELLEGRINI APPOINTED FORCE COMMANDER


OF UNITED NATIONS INTERIM FORCE IN LEBANON (UNIFIL)


Secretary-General Kofi Annan announced today the appointment of Major-General Alain Pellegrini of France as Force Commander of the United Nations Interim Force (UNIFIL) to succeed Major-General Lalit Mohan Tewari who relinquishes his post on 17 February 2004.

ORG/1405

MEMBERSHIP OF PRINCIPAL UNITED NATIONS ORGANS IN 2004

26/01/2004
Press Release
ORG/1405


MEMBERSHIP OF PRINCIPAL UNITED NATIONS ORGANS IN 2004


General Assembly


The General Assembly is made up of 191 Member States.  The States and the dates on which they became Members are listed in Press Release ORG/1360 issued 4 October 2002.


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