PRESS STATEMENT ON BURUNDI BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT

Following is the press statement on the situation in Burundi delivered by Security Council President Mikhail Wehbe (Syria):

SECURITY COUNCIL COMMITTEE ADDS NAME OF ONE INDIVIDUAL

TO AL-QAIDA SECTION OF CONSOLIDATED LIST

The Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1267 (1999) on 12 August 2003 added the following individual to its consolidated list (Al-Qaida section):

THREE CANDIDATES NOMINATED FOR POSITION OF DEPUTY PROSECUTOR

OF INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT

THE HAGUE, 13 August (ICC) -- The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Luis Moreno-Ocampo, has nominated three candidates for the position of Deputy Prosecutor (Investigations) of the Court:  Serge Brammertz (Belgium), Hassan Bubacarr Jallow (Gambia), and Vladimir Tochilovsky (Ukraine).

Security Council

4807^th Meeting* (AM)

SECURITY COUNCIL REQUESTS MANDATE EXTENSION UNTIL 31 OCTOBER FOR PANEL

INVESTIGATING PLUNDER OF RESOURCES IN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO

SECRETARY-GENERAL CONDEMNS SUICIDE BOMBINGS IN ISRAEL;

URGES RESTRAINT IN FACE OF PROVOCATION

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

GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT URGES GOVERNMENT ACTION ON YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT

IN MESSAGE ON INTERNATIONAL YOUTH DAY

Following is the message by Jan Kavan (Czech Republic), President of the fifty-seventh session of the General Assembly, on International Youth Day, observed 12 August:

CRUCIAL NEED FOR EXCHANGE, DIALOGUE BETWEEN MUSLIM, WESTERN WORLDS

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN MESSAGE TO MOROCCO SYMPOSIUM

Following is the message of Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the symposium on “Europe, America and Islam”, held during the twenty-fifth International Cultural Festival of Asilah Asilah, Morocco, on 3 August, delivered by Iqbal Riza, the Secretary-General’s Chef de Cabinet:

CORRUPTION CONVENTION TALKS TO CONTINUE IN SEPTEMBER

(Reissued as received.)

VIENNA, 11 August (UN Information Service) -- Major breakthroughs were achieved during the sixth session of the Ad Hoc Committee for the Negotiation of a Convention against Corruption, held in Vienna from 21 July to 9 August, including an agreement on the recovery of assets resulting from corruption and on a broad scope of preventive measures.

SECRETARY-GENERAL CONDEMNS HEZBOLLAH’S SHELLING OF ISRAEL

The following was issued by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan on 10 August:

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES RESIGNATION OF PRESIDENT CHARLES TAYLOR; HOPES

EVENT MARKS BEGINNING OF END FOR LIBERIA’S ‘LONG NIGHTMARE’

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