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Security Council

4908^th Meeting (Night)

SECURITY COUNCIL TIGHTENS SANCTIONS AGAINST USAMA BIN LADEN, AL-QAIDA, TALIBAN

Resolution 1526 (2004) Adopted Unanimously, Calls for Improving

Measures to Freeze Assets, Deny Entry or Transit, Prevent Weapons Transfer

SECURITY COUNCIL COMMITTEE ADDS FOUR ENTITIES TO AL-QAIDA

SECTION OF ITS CONSOLIDATED LIST

The Al-Qaida and Taliban SanctionsCommittee on 26 January 2004added the names of four entities to its consolidated list (Al-Qaida section).

18. *Name:AL-HARAMAIN FOUNDATION (INDONESIA)

Security Council

4903^rd Meeting* (AM & PM)

IN PRESIDENTIAL STATEMENT, SECURITY COUNCIL REAFFIRMS ‘VITAL IMPORTANCE’

OF UNITED NATIONS’ ROLE IN POST-CONFLICT RECONCILIATION

Security Council

4899^th Meeting (AM)

SPEAKERS IN SECURITY COUNCIL STRESS IMPORTANCE OF REGIONAL APPROACH

TO RESOLVING INTERRELATED WEST AFRICA CONFLICTS

Members of the Security Council agreed this morning on the importance of a regional approach to resolving the interrelated conflicts ravaging West Africa, as they considered the situation in Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia and Sierra Leone.

PRESS STATEMENT ON CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT

Following is today’s statement to the press on the Central African Republic by Security Council President Heraldo Muñoz (Chile):

SECURITY COUNCIL COMMITTEE APPROVESCORRECTIONS TO ENTRY OF ONE

INDIVIDUAL IN AL-QAIDASECTION OF ITS CONSOLIDATED LIST

TheAl-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Committee on 20 January 2004 approvedcorrections to the entry of one individual in the Al-Qaida section of itsconsolidated list (the information deleted from the entry of this individualappears as strikethrough text below).

50. *Name: 1: AYADI 2: SHAFIQ 3: BENMOHAMED 4: BEN MOHAMED

PRESS STATEMENT ON BURUNDI BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT

Following is today’s statement to the press on Burundi by Security Council President Heraldo Muñoz (Chile):

Members of the Security Council welcomed the discussions held from 18 to 21 January 2004, in Oisterwijk, Netherlands, between the President of the Burundian Republic, Mr Ndayizéyé, and a delegation of the Forces nationales de libération (Palipehutu-FNL).

SECURITY COUNCIL COMMITTEE ADDS TWO INDIVIDUALS

TO AL-QAIDA SECTION OF ITS CONSOLIDATED LIST

The Al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Committee on 16 January 2004 added the names of two individuals to its consolidated list (Al-Qaida section).

10. *Name: 1: SULAIMAN 2: JASSEM 3: SULAIMAN 4: ABO GHAITH

Security Council

4898^th Meeting* (AM & PM)

DESPITE PROGRESS IN PROTECTING CHILDREN IN ARMED CONFLICT, GENERAL SITUATION

REMAINS ‘GRAVE AND UNACCEPTABLE’, SECURITY COUNCIL TOLD

Special Representative, UNICEF Executive Director Brief Council,