Security Council

4857^th Meeting (AM)

SECURITY COUNCIL EXTENDS MANDATE OF COTE D’IVOIRE MISSION UNTIL 4 FEBRUARY 2004,

URGES FULL IMPLEMENTATION OF 24 JANUARY PEACE AGREEMENT WITHOUT DELAY

Resolution 1514 (2003) Adopted Unanimously;

CARIBBEAN STATES REAFFIRM COMMITMENT TO REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH, GENDER EQUALITY

Countries Say 1994 Cairo Programme Is Essential to Development Goals

(Reissued as received.)

Fifty-eighth General Assembly

Fourth Committee

22^nd Meeting (PM)

FOURTH COMMITTEE, DEFERRING ACTION ON TEXTS, TO CONCLUDE SESSION TOMORROW

Fifty-eighth General Assembly

Third Committee

43^rd & 44^th Meetings (AM & PM)

THIRD COMMITTEE APPROVES 10 DRAFT RESOLUTIONS ON PALESTINIAN RIGHTS,

USE OF MERCENARIES, REFUGEE ISSUES, MIGRANT WORKERS

Reports Discussed on Violence against Women, Human Rights Defenders

SEVERE food crisis LOOMS in Central African Republic

IN AFTERMATH OF internal conflict, UN AGENCY WARNS

NEW YORK, 13 November 2003 (OCHA) -– A United Nations agency in the Central African Republic was warned that the country could experience a severe food crisis within the next four months.

UNDER-SECRETARY-GENERAL FOR HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS REAFFIRMS MORAL OBLIGATION

TO ASSIST VULNERABLE PEOPLE IN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO

NEW YORK, 13 November (OCHA) -- Jan Egeland, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, has reaffirmed the moral obligation of the international community to assist the vulnerable people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

UNITED NATIONS PROMOTES ACTION TO PREVENT AND COUNTER TRAFFICKING

IN HUMAN BEINGS FROM NIGERIA INTO ITALY

UN Assists Nigeria and Italy in Signing “Memorandum of Cooperation”

(Reissued as received.)

Secretary-General Kofi Annan arrived in Guayaquil, the largest city and main port of Ecuador, in the early evening of 7 November on a special flight of the aircraft of the President of Chile.

INTOLERANCE -- SCOURGE WITH DEADLY CONSEQUENCES -- THREAT TO DEMOCRACY,

PEACE, SECURITY, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL ON INTERNATIONAL DAY

Following is the message of Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the International Day for Tolerance observed 16 November:

SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN ADDRESS TO PERUVIAN CONGRESS, URGES COUNTRY TO PERSEVERE

ON DEVELOPMENT PATH, DESPITE IMPERFECTIONS, FRUSTRATIONS ALONG THE WAY

Following is the address of Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the Congress of Peru, in Lima, on 11 November: