Press Release

SECRETARY-GENERAL, ACCEPTING REPORT ON CHALLENGES OF FUTURE PEACE OPERATIONS,

SAYS TOMORROW’S TESTS WILL REQUIRE DEEPER, MORE CONSISTENT COLLABORATION

Following are the remarks of Secretary-General Kofi Annan, as he accepted the report “Challenges of Peace Operations:  Into the 21^st Century”, from Sweden’s Foreign Minister at a Headquarters seminar on 25 April:

SECRETARY-GENERAL PRAISES CENTRAL AFRICAN ADVISORY COMMITTEE’S TIRELESS

EFFORTS FOR PEACE, IN MESSAGE TO KINSHASA MINISTERIAL MEETING

Security Council

4521^st Meeting* (AM)

UNDER-SECRETARY-GENERAL PRENDERGAST BRIEFS SECURITY COUNCIL ON AFGHANISTAN,

SAYS RECENT PROGRESS ENCOURAGING, BUT BY NO MEANS ASSURED

Security Challenges Remain, Substantial Financial Assistance Still Required;

JOINT OIL-DATA TRANSPARENCY INITIATIVE:  CONCRETE MANIFESTATION

OF PRODUCER-CONSUMER DIALOGUE

(Reissued as received.)

NEW YORK, 25 April (DESA) -- The late 1990s saw extremely volatile oil markets, which some observers ascribed partly to inadequate and opaque statistics.  The criticism, whether justified or not, has inspired a new look at the availability and reliability of oil data.

Committee on Information

Twenty-fourth Session

5^th Meeting (PM)

COMMITTEE ON INFORMATION DISCUSSES UN WEB SITE LANGUAGE PARITY,

INFORMATION SUPPORT FOR PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS

Committee on Information                                    PI/1415

Security Council

4518^th & 4519^th Meetings (AM & PM)

SECURITY COUNCIL, FOLLOWING BRIEFING BY SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR KOSOVO,

WELCOMES PROGRESS, REAFFIRMS IMPORTANCE OF RULE OF LAW

Presidential Statement Also Condemns 8 April Attack in Mitrovica;

Council Hears from Serbia’s Deputy Prime Minister, 18 Others in Debate

TOKYO INTER-PARLIAMENTARY DRUG CONTROL CONFERENCE FOCUSES

ON SYNTHETIC STIMULANTS, AFGHAN DRUG PROBLEM

(Reissued as received.)

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: