It is with pleasure that I transmit the annual report of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.

I have the honour to convey herewith a copy of the letter dated 2 November 2005 addressed to you by Mr. Serdar R. Denktaş, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (see enclosure).

I have the honour to transmit herewith a letter dated 25 August 2005, addressed to you by Reşat Çağlar, Representative of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (see annex).

I have the honour to transmit herewith a letter dated 28 June 2005, addressed to you by Reşat Çağlar, Representative of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (see annex).

I have the honour to transmit herewith a letter dated 26 May 2005, addressed to you by Reşat Çağlar, Representative of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (see annex).

I have the honour to transmit herewith a letter dated 3 March 2005, addressed to you by Mr. Reşat Çağlar, Representative of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (see annex).

I have the honour to forward the copy of the decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan on abolition of the death penalty (see annex).

I have the honour to transmit to you herewith the report of the Government of Guatemala, entitled Millennium Goals Second progress report of Guatemala (see annex).

I have the honour to transmit herewith a letter dated 4 January 2005 addressed to you by His Excellency Mr. Reşat Çağlar, Representative of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (see annex).

I have the honour to transmit herewith a press release from the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Cuba to the United Nations (see annex).

I have the honour to transmit herewith a letter dated 10 November 2005, addressed to you by Mr. Reşat Çağlar, Representative of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, forwarding the letter of Mr. Serdar R. Denktaş, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (see annex).

I have the honour to attach the Declaration by the organizations that participated in the Third Forum of Cuban civil society against the embargo and the annexation (see annex).

I have the honour to bring to your attention a statement on the situation in Nepal, issued on 28 February 2005 by the Presidency on behalf of the European Union (see annex).

I have the honour to convey the attached communication, dated 13 October 2005, which I received from the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (see annex).

I have the honour to forward a letter dated 28 October 2005 addressed to you by H.E. Mr. Isaias Afwerki, President of the State of Eritrea, concerning the peace process on the border conflict between Eritrea and Ethiopia.

I have the honour to forward to you, herewith, a statement issued by the Press Service of the Ministry of Defence of Nagorno Karabakh on 8 March 2005 (see annex).

I have the honour to convey the attached communication, dated 6 October 2005, which I received from the Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (see annex).

I have the honour to forward a letter addressed to you from H.E. Mr. Ali Said Abdella, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the State of Eritrea, regarding the peace process in the Sudan (see annex).

I have the honour to transmit herewith a letter dated 21 October 2005, addressed to you by Reşat Çağlar, Representative of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (see annex).

Pursuant to Security Council resolution 1483 (2003), I have the honour to transmit the attached letter from my representative on the International Advisory and Monitoring Board for Iraq (see annex).

I have the honour to convey the attached communication, dated 8 March 2005, from the High Representative for the Implementation of the Peace Agreement on Bosnia and Herzegovina (see annex).

I have the honour to transmit to you the fifth report of the Republic of Belarus to the Counter Terrorism Committee submitted in response to your letter of 10 December 2004 (see enclosure).

I have the honour to transmit herewith a letter dated 18 November 2005, addressed to you by Mr. Reşat Çağlar, Representative of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (see annex).

I am pleased to transmit to you herewith the statement that I delivered on behalf of the Ad Hoc Advisory Group on Burundi to the Economic and Social Council on 4 February 2005 (see annex).

I have the honour to transmit to you herewith, for consideration by the Fifth Committee, a letter dated 4 October 2005 from the Chairman of the Committee on Conferences concerning meeting the needs of persons with disabilities.

On behalf of my Government, I have the honour to forward to you the report of the United Republic of Tanzania on steps taken to implement measures imposed by Security Council resolution 1596 (2005) (see annex).

I have the honour to transmit the Tehran communiqué, adopted by the International Conference on United Nations Reform, held in Tehran on 17 and 18 July 2005 (see annex).

With reference to your letter dated 20 September 2004, I have the honour to forward to you Jordan's fourth report pursuant to paragraph 6 of Security Council resolution 1373 (2001) (see enclosure).

In my capacity as the representative of the country which hosted Quartet Ministerial meeting of the Middle East Peace Process international intermediaries I have the honour to transmit to you its final statement.

On instructions from my Government, I have the honour to transmit herewith a comprehensive statistical table showing the number of Israeli violations between May 2000 and January 2005.

I have the honour to transmit herewith the text of the address to the nation by President Laurent Gbagbo on 26 April 2005, as part of the implementation of the Pretoria Agreement (see annex).

I have the honour to transmit herewith a letter dated 4 October 2005, addressed to you by Mr. Reşat Çağlar, Representative of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (see annex) forwarding a letter from Mr. Mehmet Ali Talat, President of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (see enclosure).

In reply to your letter dated 8 October 2004, I have the honour to forward the fourth report of Slovakia submitted pursuant to paragraph 6 of Security Council resolution 1373 (2001) (see enclosure).

I have the honour to transmit to you herewith the third report submitted by the Democratic Republic of the Congo pursuant to paragraph 6 of Security Council resolution 1373 (2001) concerning counter terrorism (see enclosure).

At the request of my Government, I have the honour to transmit to you the addendum to the fourth report that was submitted by the Principality of Andorra to the Counter Terrorism Committee on 11 February 2005 (see enclosure).

With reference to your letter dated 15 June 2005, I have the honour to transmit herewith information supplementing the report submitted by Algeria on the implementation of Security Council resolution 1540 (2004) (see annex).

I have the honour to transmit herewith the second report from the Office of the Secretary of State for Security of Honduras concerning measures taken to combat terrorism in compliance with Security Council resolution 1373 (2001) (see appendix).

I have the honour to transmit to you the financial statements of the voluntary funds administered by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees for the year ended 31 December 2004, which were submitted by the High Commissioner.

I have the honour to transmit herewith the report of the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo concerning the steps it has taken to implement the relevant provisions of Security Council resolution 1596 (2005) (see annex).

I have the honour to transmit the resolution of the Parliament of Georgia dated 11 October 2005 regarding the current situation in the conflict regions on the territory of Georgia and ongoing peace operations (see annex).

I have the honour to transmit herewith the text of the statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Cuba on the abuses and violations committed against detainees on the naval base at Guantánamo, which was issued on 20 January last (see annex).

I have the honour to transmit herewith the statement by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan on the so called parliamentary elections of the separatist regime in the occupied Nagorno Karabakh region of the Republic of Azerbaijan to be held on 19 June 2005.

I have the privilege to transmit to you the report of the Advisory Panel on International Support for the New Partnership for Africa's Development, entitled From rhetoric to action mobilizing international support to unleash Africa's potential .

Acting on the explicit recommendation of the participants in the Tehran Conference, I have the pleasure of forwarding the text of the Tehran communiqué, for your information and as an input to the millennium review summit in September 2005 in New York.

I have the honour to submit to you herewith the fourth report of the Government of the Republic of Uzbekistan, which includes responses to the comments questions of the Counter Terrorism Committee contained in the letter from your predecessor, A. Denisov, dated 2 February 2005 (see enclosure).