PRESS STATEMENT ON KOSOVO BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT

Following is the press statement on Kosovo delivered today by Security Council President Mikhail Wehbe (Syria):

Members of the Council were briefed on the violent attack in Kosovo yesterday in which two Kosovo Serb teenagers were killed and four others injured, one critically.  A Kosovo Albanian woman was also injured following the incident.

Security Council

4808^th Meeting (PM)

SECURITY COUNCIL ESTABLISHES UN ASSISTANCE MISSION IN IRAQ,

WELCOMES CREATION OF GOVERNING COUNCIL AS ‘IMPORTANT STEP’

Resolution 1500 (2003) Adopted by 14-0-1 (Syria)

UN CONFERENCE ON ARMS CONTROL, DISARMAMENT AND THEIR FUTURE

TO CONVENE IN OSAKA, JAPAN, 19 - 22 AUGUST

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

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).

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:

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:

SECRETARY-GENERAL CONDEMNS HEZBOLLAH’S SHELLING OF ISRAEL

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