Fifty-ninth General Assembly

Fifth Committee

34^th Meeting (AM)

PROCUREMENT REFORM, OUTSOURCING PRACTICES, PEACEKEEPING AIR SAFETY

VITAL TO CURRENT, FUTURE UN OPERATIONS, BUDGET COMMITTEE TOLD

Resumed Session Begins at Headquarters;

Capital Master Plan, Peacekeeping Finance, Among Other Issues on Agenda

Commission on the Status of Women

Forty-ninth Session

10^th Meeting (PM)

FULL IMPLEMENTATION OF 1995 BEIJING ACTION PLAN FOR WOMEN ESSENTIAL TO ACHIEVING

GLOBAL ANTI-POVERTY GOALS, WOMEN’S COMMISSION DECLARES

Consensus Adoption of Text Ends First Week

Of Session Aimed at Reviewing Progress towards Gender Equality

Commission on the Status of Women

Forty-ninth Session

9^th Meeting (AM)

THIRTY-YEAR UN EFFORT TO PROMOTE GENDER EQUALITY CELEBRATED

AT INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY HEADQUARTERS OBSERVANCE

 

SECRETARY-GENERAL MEETS WITH HIS SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE

 

TO DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO

 

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

NUCLEAR NON-PROLIFERATION TREATY ‘TRUE CORNERSTONE’ OF GLOBAL SECURITY,

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERALON AGREEMENT’S THIRTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY

 

Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s statement on the thirty-fifth anniversary of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), issued in New York, 4 March:

Biographical Note

SECRETARY-GENERAL APPOINTS PIERRE SCHORI AS NEW

 

SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR CÔTE D’IVOIRE

The Secretary-General has decided to appoint Pierre Schori of Sweden to succeed Albert Tévoédjrè as his Special Representative for Côte d’Ivoire, effective 1 April 2005.  Mr. Schori has been a Distinguished Visiting Professor at AdelphiUniversity in New York since 2004.

OSCE COULD PLAY KEY ROLE IN KOSOVO’S STANDARDS

 

REVIEW PROCESS, SECURITY COUNCIL TOLD

 

Chairman Briefs Council on Organization’s Expertise

In Minority Issues, Policing, Institution-Building, Conflict Resolution

FIFTY-FIFTH SESSION OF THE UNCC GOVERNING COUNCIL TO BE HELD FROM 8 TO 10 MARCH

(Reissued as received.)

GENEVA. 4 March (UN Information Service) -- The Governing Council of the United Nations Compensation Commission will hold its fifty-fifth session from 8 to 10 March 2005 under the Presidency of Ambassador Tassos Kriekoukis (Greece).

BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF UNITED NATIONS VOLUNTARY FUND

 

FOR INDIGENOUS POPULATIONS CONCLUDES 18th SESSION

 

(Reissued as received.)

ARAB COUNTRIES TO MEET IN CAIRO FROM 6 – 8 MARCH TO DISCUSS STRENGTHENING

NATIONAL INSTITUTIONS TO PROMOTE AND PROTECT HUMAN RIGHTS

(Reissued as received.)

GENEVA, 4 March (UN Information Service) -- Representatives of national institutions, governments and civil society from throughout the Arab region will meet in Cairo from 6 to 8 March to discuss establishing or strengthening national institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights.