Press Release

PRESS STATEMENT ON DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT

Following is the press statement on the Democratic Republic of the Congo  delivered today by Security Council President Jean-Marc de la Sablière (France):

The members of the Security Council heard this morning a briefing by the Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping, on recent developments in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

SECRETARY-GENERAL PAYS TRIBUTE TO DEVOTION, HONESTY, GENEROSITY OF LATE JEAN-SÉLIM

KANAAN, AS FRANCE HONOURS UN STAFF MEMBER WITH POSTHUMOUS LEGION OF HONOUR

Following is the message of Secretary-General Kofi Annan, translated from French, on the occasion of the posthumous award of the Legion of Honour to Jean-Sélim Kanaan, read by Iqbal Riza, Chef de Cabinet, in Geneva, 27 February:

NEW REPORT AIMS AT UNLEASHING ENTREPRENEURIAL, CREATIVE POTENTIAL IN DEVELOPING

COUNTRIES, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL AT HEADQUARTERS LAUNCH

Following are Secretary General Kofi Annan’s remarks at a press briefing for the launch of the report of the Commission on the Private Sector and Development in New York, on 1 March:

SECRETARY-GENERAL HAILS HEROIC WOMEN LEADING FIGHT IN HIV/AIDS EPIDEMIC, SAYS

THEIR FURTHER EMPOWERMENT KEY TO GLOBAL RESPONSE, IN WOMEN’S DAY MESSAGE

Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message on International Women’s Day, which is observed 8 March:

Ad Hoc Committee on Jurisdictional                         

Immunities of States and Their Property                    

7^th Meeting (AM)

AD HOC COMMITTEE NEGOTIATING CONVENTION ON JURISDICTIONAL

SECRETARY-GENERAL CONCERNED BY ALARMING DETERIORATION

OF SECURITY, HUMAN RIGHTS IN HAITI

The following statement was issued by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan on 27 February:

UNITED NATIONS AGENCIES APPLAUD NEW POLITICAL

FOCUS ON HUNGER AND RURAL POVERTY

(Reissued as received.)

PARIS/ROME, 1 March (FAO/WFP/IFAD) -- In a meeting today with French President Jacques Chirac, the heads of the three Rome-based UN food agencies welcomed the renewed vigour with which hunger and rural poverty are being addressed.

PRESIDENT OF UNITED NATIONS SECURITY COUNCIL AND CHAIRMAN

OF MILITARY STAFF COMMITTEE IN MARCH

In accordance with the principle of alphabetical rotation, the following are the President of the United Nations Security Council and the Chairman of the Military Staff Committee for March:

Security Council

Commission on the Status of Women                          

Forty-eighth Session                                       

OUTER SPACE SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL SUBCOMMITTEE CONCLUDES 41^ST SESSION IN VIENNA

Reviews Implementation of Recommendations

Of UNISPACE III, Discusses Space-based Telemedicine

(Reissued as received.)