RIGHT TO LIVE FREE FROM INTIMIDATION, FORCED EXPULSION MUST BE RESPECTED,

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL, FOLLOWING REPORTS OF VIOLENCE IN NORTHERN IRAQ

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

UN HUMAN SETTLEMENTS PROGRAMME ASSISTS IN PROVIDING SHELTER

FOR INTERNALLY DISPLACED PEOPLE IN NORTHERN IRAQ

AMMAN/NAIROBI, 15 April (UN-HABITAT) -- As the lead agency in the United Nations system for the shelter sector and in particular, for urban reconstruction and rehabilitation, the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT) has continued emergency assistance to new internally displaced people, IDPs, in northern Iraq.

SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS CATASTROPHIC LOSSES TO IRAQ’S CULTURAL HERITAGE

‘A WOUND INFLICTED ON ALL HUMANKIND’

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

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EMERGENCY RELIEF COORDINATOR VOICES SORROW OVER DEATH OF ICRC STAFF

MEMBER IN IRAQ; ALSO EXPRESSES CONCERN FOR MISSING NGO STAFF

HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS DEEPLY DISTURBED BY KILLING

OF CIVILIANS AND JOURNALISTS IN IRAQ CONFLICT

(Reissued as received.)

IRAQ FIGHTING FURTHER IMPERILS EXPECTANT MOTHERS, UNFPA WARNS

(Reissued as received.)

RAFEEUDDIN AHMED NAMED SPECIAL ADVISER BY SECRETARY-GENERAL

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL INFORMS SECURITY COUNCIL OF APPOINTMENT

OF RAFEEUDDIN AHMED AS SPECIAL ADVISER

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

UNEP RECOMMENDS STUDIES OF DEPLETED URANIUM IN IRAQ

(Reissued as received.)

Amman/Nairobi, 6 April (UNEP) -– The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is recommending that a scientific assessment of sites targeted with weapons containing depleted uranium (DU) be conducted in Iraq as soon as conditions permit.

PRESS STATEMENT ON IRAQ HUMANITARIAN SITUATION BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT

Following is the press statement on Iraq delivered today by Security Council President Adolfo Aguilar Zinser (Mexico):