PRESS STATEMENT ON CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT

Following is today’s statement to the press on the Central African Republic by Security Council President Heraldo Muñoz (Chile):

PRESS STATEMENT ON BURUNDI BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT

Following is today’s statement to the press on Burundi by Security Council President Heraldo Muñoz (Chile):

Members of the Security Council welcomed the discussions held from 18 to 21 January 2004, in Oisterwijk, Netherlands, between the President of the Burundian Republic, Mr Ndayizéyé, and a delegation of the Forces nationales de libération (Palipehutu-FNL).

SECURITY COUNCIL COMMITTEE APPROVESCORRECTIONS TO ENTRY OF ONE

INDIVIDUAL IN AL-QAIDASECTION OF ITS CONSOLIDATED LIST

TheAl-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Committee on 20 January 2004 approvedcorrections to the entry of one individual in the Al-Qaida section of itsconsolidated list (the information deleted from the entry of this individualappears as strikethrough text below).

50. *Name: 1: AYADI 2: SHAFIQ 3: BENMOHAMED 4: BEN MOHAMED

Security Council

4899^th Meeting (AM)

SPEAKERS IN SECURITY COUNCIL STRESS IMPORTANCE OF REGIONAL APPROACH

TO RESOLVING INTERRELATED WEST AFRICA CONFLICTS

Members of the Security Council agreed this morning on the importance of a regional approach to resolving the interrelated conflicts ravaging West Africa, as they considered the situation in Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia and Sierra Leone.

IRANIAN EARTHQUAKE SURVIVORS FACE CONTINUING HEALTH EMERGENCY, UNFPA WARNS

Appeals Seeks to Assist Vulnerable Women and Families

(Reissued as received.)

UNFPA WELCOMES US CONGRESS SUPPORT, URGES ADMINISTRATION TO RELEASE FUNDS

(Reissued as received)

New York, 23 January (UNFPA) – The UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, today welcomed United States lawmakers’ decision to appropriate $34 million for the Fund for fiscal year 2004, and urged the Administration not to withhold the money.

Committee on Elimination of

Discrimination against Women

641^st & 642^nd Meetings (AM & PM)

WOMEN’S ANTI-DISCRIMINATION COMMITTEE HEARS REPLIES

The Secretary-General this morning met with German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer in Baden Baden.

FIGHTING POVERTY, STRENGTHENING SECURITY, REBUILDING TRUST SHOULD BE FOCUS

IN 2004, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL, ACCEPTING GERMAN MEDIA AWARD

Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s address on accepting the 2003 Deutscher Medienpreis (German Media Award) in Baden-Baden, Germany, 21 January:

SECURITY COUNCIL COMMITTEE ADDS TWO INDIVIDUALS

TO AL-QAIDA SECTION OF ITS CONSOLIDATED LIST

The Al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Committee on 16 January 2004 added the names of two individuals to its consolidated list (Al-Qaida section).

10. *Name: 1: SULAIMAN 2: JASSEM 3: SULAIMAN 4: ABO GHAITH