Press Release

Committee on Elimination of                                      

Economic and Social Council                                

2004 Substantive Session                                   

TRANSCRIPT OF PRESS CONFERENCE BY SECRETARY-GENERAL KOFI ANNAN

AT UNITED NATIONS HEADQUARTERS, 21 July 2004

The Secretary-General: Good Morning, Ladies and Gentlemen,

I have just come from the Security Council, where I joined Jan Pronk, my Special Representative, to brief the Council on the situation in Sudan and Darfur.

Economic and Social Council                                

2004 Substantive Session                                   

THIRTY-ONE Non-Governmental Organizations newly associated

with UN Public Information Department

SECRETARY-GENERAL APPOINTS PANEL TO STRENGTHEN INTERNATIONAL

SUPPORT FOR AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT PLAN

COMBATING COMPUTER CRIME SUBJECT OF UN WORKSHOP IN SEOUL,

PART OF PREPARATIONS FOR 2005 UN CRIME CONGRESS

(Reissued as received.)

SECRETARY-GENERAL CALLS FOR GENEROUS COMMITMENT FROM INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY

TO HELP HAITI THROUGH DIFFICULT TRANSITION, IN MESSAGE TO DONORS CONFERENCE

Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message to the International Donors Conference on Haiti, delivered by Juan Gabriel Valdes, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Haiti, in Washington, D.C., 20 July:

SECRETARY-GENERAL’S LATIN AMERICA SPECIAL ADVISER DEPARTS

ON FIVE-DAY MISSION TO VENEZUELA

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

un humanitarian office offers emergency AID AFTER TAJIKISTAN FLOODS, LANDSLIDES

NEW YORK, 20 July (OCHA) -- The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) is allocating $20,000 from its Emergency Reserve Fund to help provide emergency supplies in Tajikistan, where unusually heavy rains have resulted in massive floods and landslides.  The grant follows Tajikistan’s request for international assistance.