PRESS STATEMENT ON CÔTE D’IVOIRE BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT

Following is today’s press statement on Côte d’Ivoire by Security Council President Jean-Marc de La Sablière (France):

Economic and Social Council

2003 Organizational Session

2^nd Meeting (PM)                   

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL TOLD THAT GLOBAL ECONOMIC RECOVERY

STILL NOT SECURE

Council Also Takes Decisions

On Organizational Matters for 2003 Session in July

NINE CONFIRMED DEAD IN MOZAMBIQUE

Security Council

4693^rd Meeting (PM)

SECURITY COUNCIL RE-ESTABLISHES PANEL INVESTIGATING COMPLIANCE

WITH LIBERIA SANCTIONS FOR FURTHER THREE MONTHS

Resolution 1458 (2003) Adopted Unanimously

KOFI ANNAN CALLS FOR STRENGTHENING OF COOPERATION BETWEEN UNITED NATIONS

AND CENTRAL AFRICA IN PEACEKEEPING AND SECURITY

Following is the text of the message from the Secretary-General to the Summit of the Central African Economic and Monetary Community (CEMAC), held in Libreville on 21 and 22 January 2003, which was read out by General Lamine Cissé, Representative of the Secretary-General in the Central African Republic:

SECURITY COUNCIL COMMITTEE ADDS NAMES OF TWO INDIVIDUALS TO ITS LIST

The Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1267 (1999) on 28 January 2003 added the following individuals to its consolidated list (Al-Qaida section):

1.    ISAMUDDIN, NURJAMAN RIDUAN (a.k.a. “Hambali”; Nurjaman; Isomuddin, Nurjaman Riduan); born: Encep Nurjaman; Nationality: Indonesian; DOB: April 4, 1964; POB: Cianjur, West Java, Indonesia

ECONOMIC WOES AND LACK OF RAIN SET TO WORSEN HUMANITARIAN SITUATION IN ZIMBABWE

SECRETARY-GENERAL DEPLORES ‘OMINOUS’ ESCALATION OF VIOLENCE IN GAZA STRIP

The following statement was issued by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Sunday, 26 January:

GOAL MUST BE TO MAKE GLOBALIZATION AN EQUITABLE, INCLUSIVE PROCESS,

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL

Following is the message by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the World Social Forum, delivered today by Mr. Nitin Desai, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, in Porto Alegre, Brazil:

It gives me great pleasure to send my greetings to this forum.

HUMANITARIAN ENVOY FOR CÔTE D’IVOIRE URGES AUTHORITIES TO RESTORE PEACE