PRESS STATEMENT BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT

ON HANDOVER OF SOVEREIGNTY TO IRAQ

Following is the press statement on Iraqi sovereignty delivered today by Security Council President Lauro L. Baja (Philippines):

SECRETARY-GENERAL welcomes IRAQ ‘back into family

of independent and sovereign nations’

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

FIFTY-SECOND SESSION OF UNCC GOVERNING COUNCIL TO BE HELD FROM 29 JUNE TO 1 JULY

(Reissued as received.)

GENEVA, 25 June (UN Information Service) -- The Governing Council of the United Nations Compensation Commission will hold its fifty-second session from 29 June to 1 July 2004 under the Presidency of Ambassador Michael Steiner (Germany).

SECRETARY-GENERAL CONDEMNS ‘IN THE STRONGEST TERMS’ MURDER OF HOSTAGE IN IRAQ

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

The Secretary-General is appalled by the murder of Mr. Kim Sun-Il, who was taken hostage in Iraq on 17 June 2004. 

The Secretary-General condemns in the strongest terms this heartless crime, which no political or other cause can justify. 

SECRETARY-GENERAL strongly appeals for immediate release of Hostages in iraq

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

The Secretary-General is very concerned about the recent trend of hostage-taking in Iraq.  In the latest incident, Mr. Kim Sun-Il, interpreter from the Republic of Korea for a trade company, was taken hostage on 17 June 2004.

PROCESS LEADING TO IRAQ’S INTERIM GOVERNMENT COMPLETED ‘ON TIME AND IN FULL’,

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN SECURITY COUNCIL STATEMENT

Following are Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s remarks to the Security Council on Iraq, in New York, 7 June:

SECRETARY-GENERAL ‘STRONGLY CONDEMNS’ ASSASSINATION

OF PRESIDENT OF IRAQI GOVERNING COUNCIL

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

UN HUMAN RIGHTS OFFICE TO PRESENT REPORT ON SITUATION IN IRAQ ON 31 MAY

(Reissued as received.)

SECRETARY-GENERAL ASSURES OIL-FOR-FOOD INQUIRY

OF FULL COOPERATION OF ALL UN STAFF

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

UN HUMAN RIGHTS EXPERT CALLS ON COALITION AUTHORITIES TO ALLOW

 

IRAQI DETAINEES TO CHALLENGE LAWFULNESS OF DETENTION

(Reissued as received.)

GENEVA, 5 May (UN Information Service) –- The Chairperson-Rapporteur of the Working Group on arbitrary detention of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, Leïla Zerrougui, issued the following statement today: