ISRAELI MILITARY PREVENTS 75 TONNES OF HUMANITARIAN AID REACHING QALQILYA

(Reissued as received.)

Committee on Information

Twenty-fourth Session

3^rd Meeting (PM)

Committee on Information                               PI/1413

‘SCALED-UP APPROACH TO AIDS, TUBERCULOSIS, MALARIA CAN SAVE LIVES’,

SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS GLOBAL FUND BOARD MEETING

Following is the text of remarks today by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the Second Board Meeting of the Global Fund To Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria, in New York:

Security Council

4517^th Meeting (AM)

SECRETARY-GENERAL’S SPECIAL ADVISER BRIEFS SECURITY COUNCIL ON ANGOLA;

SAYS RECENT AGREEMENT CREATES BRIGHTER PROSPECTS FOR LASTING PEACE

Describes Factors Necessary for Making Peace Process Irreversible

PRESS STATEMENT ON DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT

Following is today’s press statement on the Democratic Republic of the Congo by the President of the Security Council, Sergey Lavrov (Russian Federation):

Members of the Council welcomed the significant progress made in the inter-Congolese dialogue just ended in Sun City, South Africa, on 19 April.  They commended the mediation efforts of President Mbeki and the Facilitator.

Meeting of States Parties

to Law of Sea Convention

67^th Meeting (AM)

STATES PARTIES TO LAW OF SEA CONVENTION ELECT 21 MEMBERS

TO COMMISSION ON LIMITS OF CONTINENTAL SHELF

TRANSCRIPT OF PRESS CONFERENCE BY SECRETARY-GENERAL KOFI ANNAN

AT HEADQUARTERS, 22 APRIL

Round-up

COMMISSION ON LIMITS OF CONTINENTAL SHELF

EXAMINES SUBMISSION OF RUSSIAN FEDERATION

SECRETARY-GENERAL REITERATES FULL CONFIDENCE IN MIDDLE EAST SPECIAL COORDINATOR

FOLLOWING PUBLIC CRITICISM BY ISRAELI GOVERNMENT

The following statement by Secretary-General Kofi Annan was issued Sunday, 21 April by his Spokesman: