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SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE SAYS REHABILITATION OF WAR-AFFECTED CHILDREN MUST BE

PLACED AT FOREFRONT OF INTERNATIONAL RESPONSE TO AFGHAN SITUATION

SECRETARY-GENERAL EXPRESSES CONDOLENCES ON DEATHS IN CRASH OF UNITED NATIONS

MISSION HELICOPTER OFF COAST OF SIERRA LEONE

Cause Initially Thought To Be Mechanical, Foul Play Not

Suspected; Bodies Recovered after Search and Rescue Operation

This is the text of a statement issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

PRESS STATEMENT BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT ON SIERRA LEONE SPECIAL COURT

This is the text of today’s press statement on the Sierra Leone Special Court by the President of the Security Council, Mignonette Patricia Durrant (Jamaica):

Members of the Security Council were briefed by Under-Secretary-General Hans Corell, head of the Office of Legal Affairs, on the status of the establishment of the Special Court for Sierra Leone.

PRESS STATEMENT ON SIERRA LEONE BY PRESIDENT OF SECURITY COUNCIL

This is the text of today’s press statement on developments in Sierra Leone by the President of the Security Council, Mignonette Patricia Durrant (Jamaica):

Members of the Security Council were briefed by Assistant Secretary-General Hédi Annabi on recent developments in Sierra Leone.

PRESS STATEMENT BY PRESIDENT OF SECURITY COUNCIL ON UNAMSIL HELICOPTER CRASH

Following is the text of the statement by the President of the Security Council, M. Patricia Durrant (Jamaica), on today’s crash of a UNAMSIL helicopter off the coast of Sierra Leone:

Security Council

4406^th and 4408^th Meetings* (PM)

SECURITY COUNCIL WELCOMES BURUNDI'S TRANSITIONAL GOVERNMENT,

CONDEMNS ATTACKS ON CIVILIANS, IN PRESIDENTIAL STATEMENT

Calls for Immediate Suspension

                                                            Note No. 5694

Fifty-sixth General Assembly

Fourth Committee

16^th Meeting (AM)

RESUMED PEACE PROCESS ONLY HOPE OF ENDING MIDDLE EAST SUFFERING

BELGIUM TELLS FOURTH COMMITTEE

Committee Concludes Consideration of Report on Israeli Practices

Fifty-sixth General Assembly

Third Committee

34^th Meeting (PM)

QUESTIONS RAISED IN THIRD COMMITTEE REGARDING SUDAN’S USE OF OIL REVENUES;

SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR’S QUERY AT ISSUE

Draft Resolutions Approved on Ageing, Indigenous Peoples

Fifty-sixth General Assembly

Third Committee

33^rd Meeting (AM)

PARTICIPATION OF AFGHAN PEOPLE MUST BE CENTRAL TO POLITICAL RESTRUCTURING THERE,

THIRD COMMITTEE TOLD, AS HUMAN RIGHTS DELIBERATIONS CONTINUE

Committee Also Hears That Root Cause

Of Middle East Conflict Is Israel’s Military Occupation