Parliamentarians have major role in helping countries recover from conflict,

says secretary-general in message to mexico city meeting

Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message for the 110^th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, delivered by Danilo Türk, Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs, in Mexico City, 18 April:

sECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES SECURITY COUNCIL PLEDGE TO HELP PARTIES IN CYPRUS

MEET COMMITMENTS UNDER SETTLEMENT PLAN

The following statement was issued by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Friday, 16 April:

HUMANITARIAN CRISIS LOOMING IN WESTERN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO

NEW YORK, 19 April (OCHA) -- A humanitarian crisis is looming as more than 40,000 Congolese have been expelled from Angola into desperate conditions in the Bandundu and WesternKasaiProvinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Secretary-general condemNs ISRAEL’s assassination of hamas leader

The following statement was issued by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Saturday, 17 April:

COMMISSION CONCLUDES GENERAL DEBATE ON PROMOTION AND PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS

Issues Concerning Capital Punishment, Anti-Terrorist Laws,

Human Rights Defenders, and Human Rights and Sexual Orientation Raised

(Reissued as received.)

COMMISSION ADOPTS RESOLUTIONS ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL, CULTURAL,

CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS, RIGHTS OF WOMEN

Approves Appointment of Special Rapporteur

On Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children

(Reissued as received.)

Secretary-general saddened by deaths of two un correctional officers in kosovo

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

COMMISSION ADOPTS EIGHT RESOLUTIONS ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL, CULTURAL RIGHTS,

AS WELL AS TEXT CONDEMNING NEO-NAZISM

Extends Mandates of Special Rapporteur on Illicit Dumping, Independent Expert

On Extreme Poverty; Recommends Consideration of Thematic Procedure on Cultural Rights

(Reissued as received.)

disarmament COMMENCES IN LIBERIA, PAVES WAY FOR GREATER

HUMANITARIAN ACCESS, ASSISTANCE

MONROVIA, 16 April (UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs) -- Ex-combatants of Liberia’s three armed factions took forward steps yesterday towards contributing to the future peace and stability of the war-torn country by surrendering their weapons, during the resumption of disarmament activities administered by United Nations peacekeeping forces.