Press Release


SG/SM/7768-OBV/206
16/04/2001
Press Release
SG/SM/7768
OBV/206


UN LEADERS DESCRIBE FREE PRESS AS ESSENTIAL FOR DEVELOPMENT,

IN JOINT WORLD PRESS FREEDOM DAY MESSAGE


Following is the text of a joint message, on the occasion of World Press Freedom Day (3 May 2001), from Secretary-General Kofi Annan; the Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Koichiro Matsuura; and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson:

SC/7047
12/04/2001
Press Release
SC/7047


SECURITY COUNCIL COMMITTEE NAMES RUF MEMBERS SUBJECT TO EXPULSION FROM LIBERIA


The Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1343 (2001) concerning Liberia recalls paragraph 2 (a) of that resolution, by which the Security Council:


“2  Demands that the Government of Liberia immediately cease its support for the RUF in Sierra Leone and for other armed rebel groups in the region, and in particular take the following concrete steps: