UN EMERGENCY RELIEF COORDINATOR CALLS ON DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO AUTHORITIES

TO ASSUME THEIR RESPONSIBILITIES TOWARDS CONGOLESE POPULATION

GENEVA, 21 March (OCHA) -- The United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator, Jan Egeland, called upon the Transitional Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo to assume its responsibilities towards the Congolese people.

SECRETARY-GENERAL APPEALS TO ALL PARTIES TO SAFEGUARD STABILITY,

NATIONAL UNITY FOLLOWING BEIRUT CAR BOMBING

 

The following statement was issued on Saturday, 19 March, by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT, IN WORLD WATER DAY MESSAGE, CALLS RIGHT TO SAFE

DRINKING WATER BASIC TO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, HUMAN DIGNITY

Following is the text of General Assembly President Jean Ping’s message for World Water Day, 22 March 2005:

Millions of people around the world die and still suffer because the water they use for their daily needs is unsafe.

Secretary-General expresses concern over escalation in southern kyrgyzstan

 

Following is a statement attributable to the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

The Secretary-General is very concerned at the recent escalation of serious incidents in southern Kyrgyzstan, where protestors have clashed with police and seized government offices in the towns of Osh and Jalal-Abad.

SECRETARY-GENERAL CALLS FOR DEAL BY WORLD LEADERS

 

ON POVERTY, SECURITY, HUMAN RIGHTS

 

Secretary-General saddened by death of two peacekeepers in Haiti,

 

says un remains fully committed after cowardly attacks

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL CONDEMNS BOMB ATTACK IN PAKISTAN; APPEALS

FOR CALM IN FACE OF ‘BRAZEN AND COWARDLY ACT’

 

The following statement was issued on Sunday, 20 March, by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

The Secretary-General is outraged at reports of a bomb attack in a shrine in Baluchistanprovince of Pakistan that has killed a large number of people.

SECRETARY-GENERAL PRESENTS REPORT ‘IN LARGER FREEDOM’ TO GENERAL ASSEMBLY,

 

OUTLINING AMBITIOUS PLAN FOR UNITED NATIONS REFORM

 

Says Package Gives Equal Weight to Organization’s Three Great

Purposes – Development, Security, Human Rights – Underpinned by Rule of Law

TRANSCRIPT OF PRESS CONFERENCE BY SECRETARY-GENERAL KOFI ANNAN

AT UNITED NATIONS HEADQUARTERS, 21 MARCH 2005

The Secretary-General: Let me first wish our Iranian and Kurdish friends a

very Happy New Year -- Nowrooz Mubarak.

SECRETARY-GENERAL PROPOSES STRATEGY FOR UN REFORM TO GENERAL ASSEMBLY,

GIVING EQUAL WEIGHT TO DEVELOPMENT, SECURITY, HUMAN RIGHTS

 

Report Provides Clear Package of Decisions

Member States Can Take to Fulfil Promises Already Made, He Says

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s statement to the General Assembly, in New York today, 21 March: