Press Release

UN HUMANITARIAN COORDINATOR DEEPLY CONCERNED ABOUT WORSENING

HUMANITARIAN SITUATION IN BAIDOA

(Reissued as received.)

NAIROBI, 12 March (OCHA) -- United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia Maxwell Gaylard is deeply concerned about the deterioration of the humanitarian situation in and around Baidoa, where fighting for control of the town has disrupted aid activities for more than eight months.

SECRETARY-GENERAL SHOCKED, SADDENED AT ASSASSINATION OF

SERBIAN PRIME MINISTER DJINDJIC

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

PROGRESS IN CONSOLIDATING AFRICA’S PEACE SETS STAGE FOR HARD WORK AHEAD,

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN MESSAGE TO TOKYO CONFERENCE

Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message to the “In Search of the Consolidation of Peace in Africa” conference delivered by his Special Adviser on Africa, Ibrahim Gambari, in Tokyo on 12 March:

PRESS STATEMENT BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT

ON ASSASSINATION OF SERBIA’S PRIME MINISTER

Following is the press statement on the assassination of the Serbian Prime Minister, delivered today by Security Council President Mamady Traoré (Guinea):

Security Council

4717^th Meeting (Resumed) (PM)

SECURITY COUNCIL HEARS FROM 53 SPEAKERS IN TWO DAYS ON IRAQ’S DISARMAMENT;

SOME STRESS IRAQ HAS NOT COOPERATED, MOST SAY INSPECTORS NEED MORE TIME

Security Council

4718^th Meeting (PM)

FIFTY-NINTH SESSION OF COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS GENEVA,

17 MARCH TO 25 APRIL 2003

Information for Media Coverage of the Session

GENEVA, 12 March (UN Information Service) -- The Commission on Human Rights will hold its fifty-ninth session from Monday, 17 March to Friday,

Commission on Status of Women

Forty-seventh Session

10^th Meeting (AM)

WOMEN’S COMMISSION DRAFT TEXT URGES AFGHAN TRANSITIONAL AUTHORITY TO REPEAL

DISCRIMINATORY LEGISLATION, ENABLE WOMEN’S FULL CIVIC PARTICIPATION

SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS ‘END OF ROAD’ REACHED CONCERNING CURRENT CYPRUS TALKS,

BUT ‘PLAN REMAINS ON THE TABLE’

Following is a statement by Secretary-General Kofi Annan, read today by Alvaro de Soto, Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Cyprus, at The Hague:

SECRETARY-GENERAL STRONGLY CONDEMNS KILLING OF HUMANITARIAN WORKERS IN LIBERIA

The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for the

Secretary-General:

The Secretary-General strongly condemns the killing of Emmanuel Sharpulo, and Musa Kita, Liberian nationals, and Kaare Lund, a Norwegian national,