Un legal counsel to travel to Lebanon for discussions

concerning rafik hariri investigation

 

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

In message to conference on disarmament, Secretary-General calls

for new political consensus on arms control priorities

 

Security Council

5356^th Meeting* (PM)

Security Council condemns attack on un peacekeepers

 

in Democratic Republic of Congo

 

In Presidential Statement, Council Calls Killing

Of Eight Guatemalan Soldiers on 23 January ‘An Unacceptable Outrage’

Committee on NGOs

9^th & 10^th Meetings (AM & PM)

NGO COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS ONE ORGANIZATION FOR CONSULTATIVE STATUS

WITH ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL

Also Considers Request for Withdrawal of NGO’s

Committee on Elimination of

Discrimination against Women

709^th & 710^th Meetings (AM & PM)

WOMEN’S ANTI-DISCRIMINATION COMMITTEE TAKES UP REPORT OF ERITREA ; TOLD

GENDER EQUALITY EFFORTS HINDERED BY STEREOTYPES, POVERTY, WAR

‘MAY THE SERENITY OF THE OLYMPIC FLAME SILENCE THE SOUND OF GUNFIRE’,

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL, URGING OLYMPIC TRUCE DURING WINTER GAMES

Following is UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message calling for observance of the Olympic Truce during the XXth Olympic Winter Games in Turin from 10 to 26 of February:

SECRETARY-GENERAL PLEASED CAMBODIAN GOVERNMENT HAS DROPPED

DEFAMATION CHARGES AGAINST FOUR HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS

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

Security Council

5354^th Meeting (PM)

SECURITY COUNCIL EXTENDS UN OPERATION IN C ÔTE D’IVOIRE UNTIL 15 DECEMBER,

UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTING RESOLUTION 1652 (2006)

Security Council

5353^rd Meeting (AM)

‘international community could face a catastrophe in darfur’,

 

un high commissioner for refugees tells Security Council

 

Says Bold Measures Needed; Full Involvement of UN, African Union Required

SUMMARY OF PRESS BRIEFING IN VIENNA BY GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT

ON FOLLOW-UP TO WORLD SUMMIT

(Reissued as received.)