UN COORDINATOR EXPRESSES DEEP CONCERN ABOUT DESPERATE

HUMANITARIAN SITUATION IN LIBERIA

(Received from UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.)

SITUATION IN MONROVIA BECOMING DESPERATE, ACCORDING TO UN OFFICE

[OCHA]

LIBERIA:  GREAT HUMANITARIAN NEEDS REMAIN THOUGH MONROVIA RELATIVELY CALM

AID AGENCIES STRUGGLE TO MEET NEEDS IN LIBERIA

[OCHA]

NEW YORK, 10 July (UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs) -- Despite the relative calm stemming from a tenuous ceasefire in Monrovia, aid workers are struggling to meet the needs of Liberians.  Humanitarian agencies in Monrovia are constrained by an uncertain security environment coupled with shortages of both staff and supplies in the face of growing needs.

AID AGENCIES RESUME ACTIVITIES IN LIBERIA DURING LULL IN FIGHTING

UNITED NATIONS AGENCIES APPEAL FOR $259 MILLION

IN EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOR IRAQ

Amount Needed to Make Up Shortfall

In Funding for Humanitarian Aid to Iraq in 2003

UN REQUESTING $259 MILLION FOR HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE

TO IRAQ, DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS

Following is today’s statement by Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette at the launch of the revised Humanitarian Appeal for Iraq:

EFFECTS OF HUMANITARIAN CRISIS WORSENING IN ERITREA

RECONCILIATION AND REFUGEES:  A DIFFICULT EQUATION FOR CÔTE D’IVOIRE

(Reissued as received –- delayed in transmission.)

SECRETARY-GENERAL EXPRESSES DEEP SADNESS OVER LIVES LOST,

INJURIES AND DESTRUCTION IN TURKISH EARTHQUAKE

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