Press Release

Committee on the Inalienable Rights                        

Of the Palestinian People                                  

277^th Meeting (AM)

Biographical Note                                          

NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF BARBADOS PRESENTS CREDENTIALS

(Based on information received from the Protocol and Liaison Service.)

Commission on the Status of Women                          

Forty-eighth Session                                       

14^th Meeting (PM)

COMMISSION ON NARCOTIC DRUGS MEETS IN VIENNA, 15 -22 MARCH

(Reissued as received.)

TWO-DAY COUNTER-TERRORISM CONFERENCE BEGINS IN VIENNA

WITH A MINUTE OF SILENCE FOR MADRID VICTIMS

VIENNA, 11 March (UN Information Service) -- A counter-terrorism conference organized by the United Nations and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in Vienna, began today with a minute of silence in honour of the victims of terrorist bomb attacks in Madrid earlier in the day.

Secretary-General Kofi Annan arrived in Ottawa to begin a state visit in the afternoon of Monday 8 March.

CHALLENGES OF TODAY’S ‘GLOBAL VILLAGE’ – FEAR, WANT, ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION

MUST BE ADDRESSED TOGETHER SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL AT OTTAWA CEREMONY

Following are Secretary-General’s Kofi Annan’s remarks on receiving honorary degrees from Carleton University and the University of Ottawa, in Ottawa on 9 March:

President Van Loon, Rector Patry, Distinguished Members of the Diplomatic Corps, Ladies and gentlemen,

Security Council                                           

FAO launches appeal for $4 million for haiti

ROME, 10 March (FAO) – The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) launched a $4 million appeal for Haiti yesterday for urgent farming inputs to restore agricultural production and improve the food security of the households worst-affected by the current crisis.

The crisis has further degraded an agricultural sector already weakened by years of poverty, the FAO said.  The agricultural sector faces:

UN AGENGY SAYS COUNTRIES AFFECTED BY BIRD FLU SHOULD NOT RESTOCK FLOCKS

TOO QUICKLY, AS VIRUS COULD STILL BE CIRCULATING

(Reissued as received.)

ROME, 11 March (FAO) -- Countries affected by the deadly avian influenza virus H5N1 should not restock their flocks too quickly to avoid the disease flaring up again, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warned today.