IRAQ FARMERS URGENTLY NEED PARTS, FUEL FOR SPRING HARVEST,

SAYS UNITED NATIONS FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION

ROME, 16 April (FAO) -- Farmers in Iraq are in urgent need of spare parts and fuel for combine harvesters and tractors for the upcoming spring harvest, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said today.

Committee on Charter

and United Nations Role

244^th Meeting (AM)      

SPECIAL CHARTER COMMITTEE CONCLUDES 2003 SESSION, ADOPTS REPORT STRESSING FAIR

CRITERIA FOR SANCTIONS USE AND STRONGER UN ROLE IN SETTLING DISPUTES

COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS ADOPTS MEASURESON SITUATIONS

IN NORTH KOREA, TURKMENISTAN, MYANMAR

Member States Reject Draft Resolutions on Situations in the Sudan, Zimbabwe

(Reissued as received.)

COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS ADOPTS RESOLUTION ON LEBANESE DETAINEES

IN ISRAEL, REJECTS DRAFT ON CHECHNYA

Hears Addresses from National Human Rights Institutions

(Reissued as received.)

UN HUMAN SETTLEMENTS PROGRAMME ASSISTS IN PROVIDING SHELTER

FOR INTERNALLY DISPLACED PEOPLE IN NORTHERN IRAQ

AMMAN/NAIROBI, 15 April (UN-HABITAT) -- As the lead agency in the United Nations system for the shelter sector and in particular, for urban reconstruction and rehabilitation, the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT) has continued emergency assistance to new internally displaced people, IDPs, in northern Iraq.

UN calls for Protection of civilians, humanitarian access IN LIBERIA

[OCHA]

SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS CATASTROPHIC LOSSES TO IRAQ’S CULTURAL HERITAGE

‘A WOUND INFLICTED ON ALL HUMANKIND’

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

PRESS STATEMENT ON CÔTE D’IVOIRE BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT

Following is the statement to the press on Côte d’Ivoire delivered today by Security Council President Adolfo Aguilar Zinser (Mexico):

Members of the Council welcomed the new decree delegating powers to the Prime Minister and the progressive formation of the Government of national reconciliation.

SECURITY COUNCIL 1267 (1999) COMMITTEE ADOPTS

ADDITIONAL GUIDELINES FOR CONDUCT OF WORK

PRESS STATEMENT BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT FOLLOWING BRIEFING BY CHAIR

OF COMMITTEE MONITORING TALIBAN, AL-QAIDA SANCTIONS

Following is today’s press statement by Security Council President Adolfo Aguilar Zinser (Mexico), following a briefing by the Chair of the Committee monitoring implementation of sanctions against the Taliban and al-Qaida: