Press Release

SECRETARY-GENERAL DISPATCHES ENVOY TO EQUATORIAL GUINEA

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

Fifty-eighth General Assembly                              

SECRETARY-GENERAL, DISTURBED BY ESCALATION OF FIGHTING IN NEPAL,

APPEALS FOR RESUMPTION OF PEACE PROCESS

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

Expanded European Union could offer promising new markets for bananas

Intergovernmental Group on Bananas, Tropical

Fruit to Discuss Future Challenges, Opportunities

(Reissued as received.)

Lack of Funds For Cairo Consensus Threatens World’s Poverty

Reduction, Development Goals, UNFPA Warns

Commission on Population and Development                   

Thirty-seventh Session                                     

1^st & 2^nd Meetings (AM & PM)

PRESS STATEMENT ON BURUNDI BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT

Following is today’s statement to the press on Burundi by Security Council President Jean-Marc de La Sablière (France):

This morning, members of the Security Council heard a statement by Mr.Sadry, head of the United Nations Reconnaissance Mission recently sent by the Secretary-General to Burundi, on recent developments in the situation in that country.

SECRETARY-GENERAL STRONGLY CONDEMNS ISRAEL’S ASSASSINATION OF HAMAS LEADER,

WHICH RESULTED IN DEATHS OF EIGHT OTHERS

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

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS TO HIGHLIGHT MIGRATION, POPULATION ISSUES

NEW YORK, 22 March (UN Population Division) -- Three keynote speakers will examine global concerns at this week’s meeting of the Commission on Population and Development at United Nations Headquarters.

Human Rights Committee