| Press Release SC/7968 IK/416 |
Press Statement on Karbala Bombing BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT
Following is the press statement delivered today by Security Council President Stefan Tafrov (Bulgaria):
| Press Release IHA/847 |
UNITED NATIONS TEAM RESPONDS TO IRAN EARTHQUAKE
| Press Release SC/7969 |
SC/7969
| Press Release SG/SM/9099 AFR/804 |
SECRETARY-GENERAL SHOCKED BY BRUTAL MURDER OF APOSTOLIC NUNCIO IN BURUNDI
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:
The Secretary-General was deeply shocked and saddened to learn the news of the tragic death of Monsignor Michael Courtney, the Apostolic Nuncio in Burundi, who was brutally murdered during a road ambush today in Minago, about 50 kilometres south of Bujumbura in Bururi province.
| Press Release SG/SM/9098 |
SECRETARY-GENERAL SADDENED BY NEWS OF BENIN AIR CRASH,
WHICH KILLED 130, INCLUDING 15 UN PEACEKEEPERS
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:
The Secretary-General was deeply saddened to learn the news of the tragic deaths of over 130 passengers, including 15 United Nations peacekeepers from Bangladesh, in the air crash near Cotonou, Benin, on 25 December.
| Press Release SG/SM/9097 |
SECRETARY-GENERAL DISTRESSED BY NEWS OF IRAN’S DEVASTATING
EARTHQUAKE, SAYS UN MOBILIZING ASSISTANCE
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:
| Press Release SG/SM/9096 AFR/802 |
SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES TRANSITIONAL AGREEMENT IN COMOROS
The following statement was issued by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan on 24 December:
| Press Release GA/10226 |
Fifty-eighth General Assembly
HIGHLIGHTS
REFORM, REVITALIZATION OF UNITED NATIONS TO FACE NEW GLOBAL THREATS STRESSED
DURING 58TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY, MEETING IN WAKE OF SOBERING WORLD EVENTS
| Press Release SG/SM/9095 |
SECRETARY-GENERAL’S MESSAGE FOR NEW YEAR, 2004
Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message for the New Year, 2004:
Dear Peoples of the United Nations,
Your Organization, which I have the honour to serve, has just been through one of the hardest years in its history.
| Press Release IHA/845 |
PHILIPPINES FLOODS AFFECT OVER 200,000
NEW YORK, 24 December (OCHA) -- The number of deaths caused by flooding, landslides, and a tornado in eight provinces in the central Philippines has risen to 143 from 90. In addition, 54 persons have been injured and 112 are still missing. The total number of people affected by the disaster has now doubled from almost 100,000 to over 200,000 people, and almost 18,000 are sheltering in
21 evacuation centres.
