SECRETARY-GENERAL CONGRATULATES BAHRAIN AND QATAR

ON RESOLUTION OF TERRITORIAL DISPUTES

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS WORK FOR PEACE MUST ENGAGE EVERYONE

Following is the text of remarks by Secretary-General Kofi Annan today in New York to the Advisory Meeting on the Academic Programme of the University for Peace:

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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