Secretary-General urges uganda rebels to respond positively

to president’s call for dialogue

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

security council committee on liberia includes additional information in travel ban

On 14 April 2004, the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1521 (2003) concerning Liberia, approved the inclusion of additional information in the Alias field for the following individual included in the list of persons subject to the travel restrictions imposed by paragraph 4 (a) of resolution 1521 (2003):

Mr. James Dennis

JOINT INSPECTION UNIT ANNOUNCES OFFICIAL RELEASE OF ITS UPDATED WEB SITE

(Reissued as received.)

GENEVA, 15 April (UN Information Service) –- The Joint Inspection Unit of the United Nations system announced today the official release of its updated Web site.

COMMISSION ADOPTS THREE RESOLUTIONS ON VIOLATION

OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN OCCUPIED ARABTERRITORIES

Special Representative of Secretary-

General on Human Rights Defenders Presents Report

(Reissued as received.)

COMMISSION ADOPTS MEASURES ON SITUATIONS IN CUBA, BELARUS,

TURKMENISTAN, DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF KOREA

Approves Special Rapporteurs for Belarus and Democratic People’s

Republic of Korea; Rejects Draft Resolutions on Chechnya, Zimbabwe, China

(Reissued as received.)

UNITED NATIONS HUMAN RIGHTS EXPERTS EXPRESS CONCERN OVER SITUATION OF TIBETAN MONK

(Reissued as received.)

role of business in armed conflict can be crucial – ‘for good and for ill’,

Secretary-General tells Security Council open debate on issue

Following are Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s remarks at an open debate of the Security Council on the role of business in conflict prevention, peacekeeping and post-conflict peace-building in New York, 15 April:

PALESTINIAN MINISTER SAYS ISRAELI SEPARATION WALL IS OVERT PLAN

OF EXPANSION TO ANNEXPALESTINIANLAND

International Meeting on Impact of Construction

Of Wall in Occupied Palestinian Territory Continues

(Reissued as received.)

MEETING BEGINS ON IMPACT OF CONSTRUCTION OF WALL

IN OCCUPIED PALESTINIANTERRITORY

Speakers Decry Barrier as Further Blow

To Palestinian Rights, Threat to Peace Process

(Reissued as received.)

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