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SG/SM/8740-AFR/638

SECRETARY-GENERAL ALARMED AT IMPACT OF FIGHTING IN LIBERIA

09/06/2003
Press Release
SG/SM/8740
AFR/638


SECRETARY-GENERAL ALARMED AT IMPACT OF FIGHTING IN LIBERIA


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


The Secretary-General is alarmed at the severe impact which intensified fighting between rebels and government forces in Liberia is having on Monrovia’s 1 million inhabitants.

SG/A/840-BIO/3497

SECRETARY-GENERAL APPOINTS JAN EGELAND OF NORWAY NEW UNDER-SECRETARY-GENERAL FOR HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS

06/06/2003
Press Release
SG/A/840
BIO/3497


Biographical Note


SECRETARY-GENERAL APPOINTS JAN EGELAND OF NORWAY NEW

UNDER-SECRETARY-GENERAL FOR HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS


The Secretary-General today announced the appointment of Jan Egeland of Norway as the new Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Humanitarian Relief Coordinator, succeeding Kenzo Oshima of Japan.

SG/A/839

SHEIKHA HESSA OF QATAR APPOINTED NEW SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR FOR DISABILITY

06/06/2003
Press Release
SG/A/839


SHEIKHA HESSA OF QATAR APPOINTED NEW SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR FOR DISABILITY


Secretary-General Kofi Annan has appointed Sheikha Hessa bint Khalifa bin Ahmed al-Thani of Qatar as the Special Rapporteur on Disability of the United Nations Commission for Social Development for the period 2003 to 2005.

SG/SM/8735-AFR/633

SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS LIBERIA ‘TORN APART BY DISASTROUS CONFLICT’ FOR TOO LONG; GHANA CONFERENCE AT LAST OFFERS HOPE FOR PEACEFUL RESOLUTION

04/06/2003
Press Release
SG/SM/8735
AFR/633


SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS LIBERIA ‘TORN APART BY DISASTROUS CONFLICT’ FOR TOO LONG;

GHANA CONFERENCE AT LAST OFFERS HOPE FOR PEACEFUL RESOLUTION


Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message to the opening session of the Liberian peace conference, delivered by Abou Moussa, Representative of the Secretary-General in Liberia, in Accra, Ghana, on 4 June: