SECRETARY-GENERAL SALUTES COURAGE, GENEROSITY OF WYNTON MARSALIS,

AS HE DESIGNATES HIM ‘MESSENGER OF PEACE’

Following are the remarks of Secretary-General Kofi Annan during a ceremony at Lincoln Center, designating Wynton Marsalis a Messenger of Peace in New York on 22 March:

TRANSCRIPT OF PRESS CONFERENCE BY SECRETARY-GENERAL KOFI ANNAN

AT HEADQUARTERS, 22 MARCH 2001

The Secretary-General: Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. I am here mainly to answer your questions, but let me start by mentioning three or four things that are particularly on my mind.

Round-up of Session

COMMITTEE ON ELIMINATION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION

CONCLUDES FIFTY-EIGHTH SESSION

(Reissued as received.)

                                                      Note No. 5657

UNITED NATIONS SEEKS $65 MILLION IN AID TO WEST AFRICA

GENEVA, 23 March (UNIS) -- United Nations aid agencies today said they needed $65 million this year to tackle humanitarian crises in West Africa that affect some 3 million people in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Côte d'Ivoire. They include refugees and internally displaced people, as well as impoverished communities that host the uprooted.

Human Rights Committee

Seventy-first Session

1907^th Meeting (PM)

HAITIAN WORKERS, MILITARY AND POLICE COURTS DISCUSSED, AS HUMAN RIGHTS

COMMITTEE CONCLUDES CONSIDERATION OF DOMINICAN REPUBLIC'S REPORT

Human Rights Committee

Seventy-first Session

1906^th Meeting (AM)*

HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE BEGINS REVIEW OF REPORT BY DOMINICAN REPUBLIC,

HEARS OF COUNTRY’S DETERMINATION TO IMPLEMENT COVENANT PROVISIONS

The Human Rights Committee this morning began its consideration of the fourth periodic report of the Dominican Republic on its compliance with the International Covenant on Political and Civil Rights.

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Resumed Fifty-fifth General Assembly

Fifth Committee

51^st Meeting (AM)

ADMINISTRATIVE AND BUDGETARY COMMITTEE TAKES UP REVISED

2000-2001 BUDGET FOR SIERRA LEONE MISSION

Preparatory Committee for the

United Nations Conference on

 The Illicit Trade in Small Arms

 And Light Weapons in All Its Aspects

35^th Meeting (PM)

PREPARATORY COMMITTEE FOR CONFERENCE ON ILLICIT ARMS TRADE

DECIDES ON WORK PROGRAMME FOR SECOND WEEK