UN EMERGENCY TEAMS ASSESSING CYCLONE TOLL IN OCEANIA

 

NEW YORK, 16 March (UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs) -- The UN Disaster Assessment and Coordination (UNDAC) team has completed assessments in the islands of Mauke and Atiu in the southern group of the Cook Islands and confirmed that these islands are not in a state of emergency.

Human Rights Committee

Eighty-Third Session

2258^th & 2259^th Meetings (AM & PM)

Changes to Iceland’s penal code aimed at combating terrorism

 

focus of debate in human rights committee

Fifty-ninth General Assembly

Fifth Committee

37^th Meeting (AM)

BUDGET COMMITTEE CONSIDERS ADDITIONAL FINANCING REQUESTS

 

GROUP OF EXPERTS ON CONVENTIONAL WEAPONS CONVENTION CONCLUDES TENTH SESSION

(Reissued as received.)

GENEVA, 16 March (UN Information Service) -- The Tenth Session of the Group of Governmental Experts of the States Parties to the Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May be Deemed to be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects (CCW), concluded on Friday, 11 March 2005. 

UNITED NATIONS HUMAN RIGHTS EXPERTS CALL FOR URGENT,

 

EFFECTIVE ACTION ON DARFUR, SUDAN

 

(Reissued as received.)

UN HAS ‘SACRED RESPONSIBILITY’ TO COMBAT HATRED, INTOLERANCE, SAYS

SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN REMARKS AT JERUSALEM HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL

Following are United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s remarks at the inauguration of the Holocaust History Museum at Yad Vashem, in Jerusalem, 15 March:

I would like to thank the Government of Israel and Yad Vashem for inviting us to this ceremony.

Security Council

5142^nd Meeting (AM)

SECURITY COUNCIL RE-ESTABLISHES GROUP MONITORING SOMALIA ARMS EMBARGO

FOR FURTHER SIX MONTHS, UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTING RESOLUTION 1587 (2005)

Report Says Recent Arms Shipments Strengthened Military Capacity

Of Elements Intending Violent Opposition to Transitional Government

‘GREEN GROWTH’ FOCUS OF SEOUL MINISTERIAL CONFERENCE 24-29 MARCH

(Reissued as received.)

BANGKOK, 15 March (UN Information Services) -- The first high-level major environmental conference since the tsunami last December will be held in Seoul, Republic of Korea, 24-29 March 2005.

MEMBERSHIP OF PRINCIPAL UNITED NATIONS ORGANS IN 2005

 

General Assembly

The General Assembly is made up of 191 Member States.  The States and the dates on which they became Members are listed in Press Release ORG/1360 issued 4 October 2002.

Security Council

Note to Correspondents