SECRETARY-GENERAL NOTES RECENT PROGRESS IN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO,

BUT SAYS GREAT CHALLENGES AHEAD, IN STATEMENT TO SECURITY COUNCIL

     Following is the statement of Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the

21 February Security Council meeting with the Political Committee established by the July 1999 Lusaka Ceasefire Agreement on the peace process in the Democratic Republic of the Congo:

HUMAN TRAFFICKING ONE OF MOST EGREGIOUS HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS,

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN MESSAGE TO ABUJA CONFERENCE

Following is the message of Secretary-General Kofi Annan, delivered on his behalf by Mbaya Kankqenda, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Resident Coordinator, to the first Pan-African Conference on Human Trafficking in Abuja, Nigeria, on 19 February:

AFR/302*

DEV/2281

8 February 2001

AFRICAN MINISTERS OF PUBLIC SERVICE ADOPT CHARTER FOR PUBLIC SERVICE

        NEW YORK, 8 February (DESA) -- Forty-one African Ministers of Public Service unanimously adopted a Charter of Public Service for Africa at the conclusion of the third biennial Pan-African Conference of Ministers of Civil Service, held in Windhoek, Namibia, from 5 to 6 February.

                                          SG/SM/7707*

MOMENT OF OPPORTUNITY ‘MUST BE SEIZED’ BY DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO,

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN STATEMENT TO SECURITY COUNCIL

Following is the statement of Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the Security Council's meeting on the Democratic Republic of Congo on 2 February:

SECRETARY-GENERAL’S SPECIAL ENVOY SEEKS INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT

TO BREAK CYCLE OF DROUGHT AND FAMINE IN HORN OF AFRICA

GENEVA, 30 January (OCHA) -- The Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for the drought in the Greater Horn of Africa, Catherine Bertini, today launched an inter-agency appeal of $353 million to cover the needs of 13 million people affected by the drought in five countries in the Horn of Africa.

SECRETARY-GENERAL SHOCKED BY DEATH OF PRESIDENT KABILA

OF DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO

      The following statement by Secretary-General Kofi Annan was issued today by his Spokesman:

                                                      SG/SM/7683/Rev.1*

SECRETARY-GENERAL, AT AFRICA-FRANCE SUMMIT, SAYS

AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT NOT A LOST CAUSE

Focuses on Need for Improved Governance,

Education, as well as Debt Relief and Market Access

This is the text of an address by Secretary-General Kofi Annan in Yaoundé, Cameroon, today to the Africa-France Summit:

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES 15 JANUARY CREATION

OF ‘EAST AFRICAN COMMUNITY’

      The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan: