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SC/7926
19/11/2003
Press Release
SC/7926


Security Council

4864th Meeting (PM)


SECURITY COUNCIL EXPRESSES INTENTION TO ADDRESS MINE ACTION IN PEACEKEEPING


MANDATES, CITING LONG-TERM EFFECTS OF LANDMINES ON PEACE, SECURITY


Citing the long-term consequences of landmines and unexploded ordnance on peace and security, the Security Council this afternoon expressed its intention to address mine action in the mandates of peacekeeping operations when appropriate.

SC/7923
19/11/2003
Press Release
SC/7923


Security Council

4861st Meeting* (AM)


PERIOD OF INERTIA, EXCUSES, CONDITIONALITY IN MIDDLE EAST PEACEMAKING


MUST END, UNDER-SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS SECURITY COUNCIL


The period of inertia, excuses and conditionality in Middle East peacemaking must end, the Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, Kieran Prendergast, said this morning, as he briefed the Security Council.

SC/7922-AFG/234
18/11/2003
Press Release
SC/7922
AFG/234


PRESS STATEMENT ON AFGHANISTAN BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT


Following is the text of the press statement on Afghanistan delivered on 17 November by Security CouncilPresident Ismael Abraão Gaspar Martins (Angola):


Members of the Security Council condemned unequivocally the murder on 16 November of Bettina Goislard, a staff member for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.