TSUNAMI:  LOSSES IN FISHERIES, AQUACULTURE CLIMB

TO $520 MILLION, RECOVERY EFFORTS UNDER WAY

 

(Reissued as received.)

Background Release

COMMITTEE ON ELIMINATION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION

 

TO MEET IN GENEVA FROM 21 FEBRUARY TO 11 MARCH

 

Committee to Consider Reports of Lao People’s Democratic Republic,

France, Luxembourg, Nigeria, Australia, Ireland, Bahrain and Azerbaijan

(Reissued as received.)

OUTER SPACE SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL SUBCOMMITTEE TO HOLD 42ND SESSION IN VIENNA

Space-System-Based Disaster Management Key Item on Agenda

(Reissued as received.)

Special Committee on

Decolonization

1^st Meeting (AM)

WAYS MUST BE EXPLORED TO ACCELERATE DECOLONIZATION PROCESS, SPECIAL COMMITTEE TOLD

Committee Elects Officers for 2005, Approves Organization of Work

Kyoto Protocol Event

PARTICIPANTS IN SPECIAL EVENT MARKING ENTRY INTO FORCE OF KYOTO PROTOCOL

 

STRESS NEED FOR ACTION TO COUNTER GLOBAL WARMING

 

Sharing of Clean-Energy Technology,

Emissions Trading Schemes among Issues Discussed

Commission for Social Development

Forty-third Session

12^th Meeting (AM)

Social development commission hears introduction

 

of un research institute’s 2003-2004 report

 

INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY MUST IMMEDIATELY FIND WAY TO HALT KILLING

IN DARFUR, SUDAN, SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS SECURITY COUNCIL

 

Following is the text of today’s statement to the Security Council by Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

I am very pleased that the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Louise Arbour, is with us today, to present the report of the International Commission of Inquiry on Darfur.

IN MESSAGE TO KYOTO PROTOCOL CEREMONY, SECRETARY-GENERAL CALLS ON WORLD

COMMUNITY TO ‘BE BOLD’, QUICKLY TAKE NEXT STEPS AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE

Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s video message on the entry into force of the Kyoto Protocol, 16 February:

Today we celebrate the entry into force of the Kyoto Protocol.

Security Council

5126^th Meeting (Night)

Security Council

5125^th Meeting (PM)

SECRETARY-GENERAL, HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS CALL FOR URGENT ACTION

BY SECURITY COUNCIL TO HALT VIOLENCE IN SUDAN