RECONCILIATION, REHABILITATION IN SOMALIA ARE KEY CONCERNS, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL

Somalia's Leaders Must Rise above Differences and Put Interests of Peace First

Following is the message of Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the Summit Meeting of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), delivered by Mohamed Sahnoun, Special Adviser to the Secretary-General, in Khartoum,

10-11 January:

PRESS STATEMENT ON CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT

Following is today's press statement by Security Council President Jagdish Koonjul (Mauritius) concerning the Central African Republic:

Members of the Security Council expressed their deep concern over the increasing problems affecting the political and economic situation in the Central African Republic.

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UN Projects Gross World Product growth of only 1.5 per cent in 2002;

Background Release

WOMEN'S ANTI-DISCRIMINATION COMMITTEE TO HOLD TWENTY-SIXTH SESSION

IN NEW YORK, 14 JANUARY - 1 FEBRUARY

Will Review Reports of Eight States Parties

NEW YORK, 9 January (Division for Advancement of Women) -- The twenty-sixth session of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women

will take place at United Nations Headquarters in New York from 14 January to

1 February 2002.

PRESS STATEMENT ON DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT

Following is today's press statement by Security Council President Jagdish Koonjul (Mauritius) concerning the Democratic Republic of the Congo:

PRESS STATEMENT ON UN MISSION IN SIERRA LEONE BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT

Following is today's press statement on the United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL) by Security Council President Jagdish Koonjul (Mauritius):

PRESS STATEMENT ON GUINEA-BISSAU BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT

Following is today’s press statement by Security Council President Jagdish Koonjul (Mauritius) concerning Guinea-Bissau:

SECRETARIAT Unit on Internal Displacement ESTABLISHED

NEW YORK, 8 January (OCHA) -- Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator Kenzo Oshima is pleased to announce the establishment of the Unit on Internal Displacement.  The Unit, which will be headed by Kofi Asomani as Director and Special Coordinator on Internal Displacement, has been created to respond to the severe crisis of internal displacement around the world.

SECRETARY-GENERAL CONVENES FIRST MEETING OF GLOBAL COMPACT ADVISORY COUNCIL

Strategy and Governance Issues Tackled by Senior Business Executives,

International Labour Leaders, Key Members of Civil Society Organizations