FRAMEWORK FOR PEACE, SECURITY MUST HAVE CAPACITY TO RESPOND SWIFTLY, EFFECTIVELY,

SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS SECURITY COUNCIL

Following is the text of opening remarks, as delivered, by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to today’s meeting of the Security Council on regional organizations and new challenges to international peace and security:

AMENDED AL-QAIDA AND TALIBAN LIST ISSUED BY SECURITY COUNCIL COMMITTEE

On 10 April 2003, the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1267 (1999) approved several amendments to its list of individuals and entities belonging to or associated with the Taliban and the Al-Qaida organization (Al-Qaida section).

Security Council

4739^th Meeting (AM)

SECURITY COUNCIL MEETS WITH REGIONAL ORGANIZATIONS TO CONSIDER WAYS

TO STRENGTHEN COLLECTIVE SECURITY

Secretary-General Suggests Need for Network

of Flexible, Responsive Regional and Global Mechanisms

DESPITE CRITICAL REGIONAL CIRCUMSTANCES, ESCWA TO HOLD

TWENTY-SECOND MINISTERIAL SESSION

(Reissued as received.)

Note to Correspondents

UN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL TO MEET WITH BRETTON WOODS INSTITUTIONS,

WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION ON MONDAY, 14 APRIL

Secretary-General Kofi Annan will deliver the opening statement to a key meeting on financing global development, hosted by the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), Monday, 14 April.

Note to Correspondents

BRIEFING ON SARS BY WHO COMMUNICABLE DISEASES EXPERT DAVID HEYMANN,

SCHEDULED FOR 15 APRIL

World Health Organization (WHO) Communicable Diseases Executive Director David Heymann will deliver a briefing on the newly identified Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), at a 15 April meeting co-sponsored by the WHO and the United NationsEconomic and Social Council (ECOSOC).

COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS BEGINS DISCUSSION OF RIGHTS OF CHILD

Special Rapporteur on Sale of Children,

Child Prostitution and Child Pornography Speaks

(Reissued as received.)

COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS CONCLUDES CONSIDERATION

OF INDIGENOUS ISSUES, HUMAN RIGHTS OF WOMEN

Deputy Foreign Minister for Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan Gives Address

(Reissued as received.)

Special Committee on

Decolonization

2^nd Meeting (AM) 

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Plenary

82^nd Meeting (AM)

GENERAL ASSEMBLY TEXT STRONGLY SUPPORTS ‘KIMBERLEY PROCESS’ CERTIFICATION SCHEME, AIMED AT COMBATING USE OF DIAMONDS FOR FINANCING CONFLICT

Draft Resolution Introduced by South Africa;

International Certification Effort Went Into Effect 1 January 2003