SECURITY COUNCIL COMMITTEE ADDS NAME OF ONE INDIVIDUAL

TO AL-QAIDA SECTION OF CONSOLIDATED LIST

The Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1267 (1999) on 12 August 2003 added the following individual to its consolidated list (Al-Qaida section):

Security Council

4807^th Meeting* (AM)

SECURITY COUNCIL REQUESTS MANDATE EXTENSION UNTIL 31 OCTOBER FOR PANEL

INVESTIGATING PLUNDER OF RESOURCES IN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO

THREE CANDIDATES NOMINATED FOR POSITION OF DEPUTY PROSECUTOR

OF INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT

THE HAGUE, 13 August (ICC) -- The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Luis Moreno-Ocampo, has nominated three candidates for the position of Deputy Prosecutor (Investigations) of the Court:  Serge Brammertz (Belgium), Hassan Bubacarr Jallow (Gambia), and Vladimir Tochilovsky (Ukraine).

SECRETARY-GENERAL CONDEMNS SUICIDE BOMBINGS IN ISRAEL;

URGES RESTRAINT IN FACE OF PROVOCATION

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

CRUCIAL NEED FOR EXCHANGE, DIALOGUE BETWEEN MUSLIM, WESTERN WORLDS

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN MESSAGE TO MOROCCO SYMPOSIUM

Following is the message of Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the symposium on “Europe, America and Islam”, held during the twenty-fifth International Cultural Festival of Asilah Asilah, Morocco, on 3 August, delivered by Iqbal Riza, the Secretary-General’s Chef de Cabinet:

GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT URGES GOVERNMENT ACTION ON YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT

IN MESSAGE ON INTERNATIONAL YOUTH DAY

Following is the message by Jan Kavan (Czech Republic), President of the fifty-seventh session of the General Assembly, on International Youth Day, observed 12 August:

CORRUPTION CONVENTION TALKS TO CONTINUE IN SEPTEMBER

(Reissued as received.)

VIENNA, 11 August (UN Information Service) -- Major breakthroughs were achieved during the sixth session of the Ad Hoc Committee for the Negotiation of a Convention against Corruption, held in Vienna from 21 July to 9 August, including an agreement on the recovery of assets resulting from corruption and on a broad scope of preventive measures.

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES RESIGNATION OF PRESIDENT CHARLES TAYLOR; HOPES

EVENT MARKS BEGINNING OF END FOR LIBERIA’S ‘LONG NIGHTMARE’

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL CONDEMNS HEZBOLLAH’S SHELLING OF ISRAEL

The following was issued by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan on 10 August:

SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES RESTRAINT FOLLOWING EXCHANGES OF FIRE

ACROSS SOUTHERN LEBANON’S ‘BLUE LINE’

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