United Nations Daily Highlights, 01-10-02

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HIGHLIGHTS

OF THE NOON BRIEFING

BY FRED ECKHARD

SPOKESMAN FOR THE SECRETARY-GENERAL

OF THE UNITED NATIONS

UN HEADQUARTERS, NEW YORK

Tuesday, October 2, 2001

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Secretary-General Kofi Annan, in an ABC Television interview broadcast this morning, said he hoped that the emergency appeal for $584 million for Afghans in crisis would avert a disaster, but he warned that the snows were just weeks away.

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The Secretary-General described the terror attack on the United States as "a wake-up call" for all governments to work against terrorists who in the future could resort to weapons of mass destruction that could kill many more people.

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Asked if he was afraid that the future holds many more such attacks, he responded, "I am not afraid. I have work to do and I'm going to keep at it."

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Trucks, donkeys, trains and planes are just some of the ways that much-needed needed relief is being brought to Afghanistan and to neighboring countries.

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The effort is part of a twin strategy of delivering as much aid as possible inside the county while also building up supplies in neighboring countries in case large numbers of Afghans head toward the borders.

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The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) began the first of its "Children's Winter Convoys" into Taliban-controlled territory using trucks, pack mules and some 800 donkeys to make the journey through the rugged terrain.

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The World Food Programme (WFP) is continuing to transport relief food into Afghanistan by all possible means. A train carrying 1,000 tons of aid was on its way to Kabul as part of its efforts moving food from Pakistan, Turkmenistan and Tajikistan.

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The second airlift by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees ( UNHCR) into Pakistan arrived in Peshawar on Tuesday.

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The UN's Emergency Relief Coordinator Kenzo Oshima, in the region to coordinate the humanitarian effort, travelled to Quetta then on to Mashad, Iran, where there is a large concentration of Afghan refugees. He will also travel to Tehran.

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Inside Afghanistan, agencies such as UNICEF, the World Health Organization and the WFP and many non-governmental organizations have continued to function through the determined efforts of Afghan national staff.

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The Secretary-General, in a statement issued through his Spokesman, said he utterly condemns the terrorist suicide bombing that occurred yesterday in Srinagar in the Indian-controlled part of Kashmir. He expresses his condolences to the bereaved families.

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This act of senseless violence underscores the need to eradicate terrorism from whatever quarter. The Secretary-General recalls the unanimous adoption of Security Council resolution 1373 (2001), which decided, among other things, that all States shall refrain from providing any form of support, active or passive, to terrorist groups.

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This tragic incident once again underlines the need for a political solution to the longstanding dispute over Kashmir.

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Ambassador Richard Ryan of Ireland, President of the Security Council for the month of October, chaired the Council's informal consultations this morning during which they approved their programme of work for this month.

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Following the morning's consultations, the Ambassador Ryan held a press conference to brief journalists on Ireland's presidency of the Council.

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This afternoon, at 3:30, the Security Council will hold a private meeting with the troop-contributing countries to the UN Iraq-Kuwait Observation Mission (UNIKOM).

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The Secretary-General's Special Representative for the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Amos Namanga Ngongi, has drawn attention to the fighting in the eastern part of the country, particularly in Kindu, Fizi and Baraka.

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In a press release issued in Kinshasa, in French, Ngongi, calls on all parties to cease hostilities and allow freedom of movement of personnel from the UN mission in that country. He refers to a UN aircraft that had been prevented from landing at the airport in Kindu on a routine mission.

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Today at The Hague, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia unsealed the indictment of four officials of the Yugoslav People's Army for war crimes allegedly committed during the Army's attack on the Dubrovnik region of Croatia between October and December 1991.

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Pavle Strugar, Miodrag Jokic, Milan Zec and Vladimir Kovacevic are all accused of responsibility for murder, attacks on civilians and other crimes related to the shelling and looting of Dubrovnik.

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The indictment was unsealed only after Tribunal Prosecutor Carla Del Ponte had given the Yugoslav authorities at least seven months to carry out the transfer and arrest of the four accused, which was not accomplished.

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Del Ponte said she deplores the refusal of the Yugoslav authorities to cooperate with the Tribunal.

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According to the weekly update from the Office of the Iraq Programme (OIP), the volume of Iraqi oil exports under the United Nations oil-for-food programme dropped sharply from the previous week's high of 16.4 million barrels to a mere 9 million barrels in the week ending on September 28, 2001.

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The Security Council's 661 Sanctions Committee has retroactively approved the pricing mechanisms for Iraqi crude oil deliveries to the United States market during September.

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There was a further slight decrease in the value of contracts placed on hold by the 661 Committee, which at the end of the week stood at $3.9 billion.

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The Chairman of 661 Committee also informs us that yesterday at 6 p.m.was the deadline for prices for the European and US markets. Although the Committee has approved the European prices for the first 15 days of the month, the US prices have been put on hold.

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The UN Transitional Administration in East Timor reports that 240,000 primary and secondary East Timorese students yesterday started a new academic year. They will be taught by nearly 6,000 teachers who will work with more than one million textbooks already distributed to schools. Close to 2,400 classrooms have been rehabilitated, representing roughly 86 percent of the total number of classrooms in need of rehabilitation after the violence of 1999.

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The UN Human Rights Commission's Special Rapporteur for the Promotion and Protection of the Right to Freedom of Opinion and Expression, Abid Hussain, expressed his deep concern over the murder in Northern Ireland on September 28 Martin O'Hagan a journalist for the "The Sunday World" newspaper. O'Hagan was the first journalist to be killed in the past 30 years of conflict in Northern Ireland. The Special Rapporteur noted with great concern that this assassination raised to 14 the number of journalists killed worldwide since the beginning of 2001 while carrying out their professional duties.

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Starting on Thursday, World Space Week -- which marks the launching of the Sputnik-1 satellite in 1957 and the entry into force of the Outer Space Treaty -- will be celebrated in at least 20 countries. In his message, the Secretary-General says that space exploration can help to bring cultures together, with multi-national crews often conducting manned space missions together.

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Today, Guyana became the 123rd member state to pay its 2001 regular budget contribution in full with a payment of more than $10,000.

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This morning the International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism was signed by the Bahamas and Liechtenstein. Liechtenstein also ratified the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, which brings to 40 the total number of ratification.

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The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) announced today that a global initiative, "Feeding minds, fighting hunger," will take place during the week beginning October 14 in schools worldwide. The initiative provides schools with model lesson plans and resource materials that can be adapted by teacher to meet local needs. The material, in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Italian and Spanish is designed to get children actively involved in creating a world free from hunger and malnutrition.

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