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Press Release


DSG/SM/214
20/02/2004
Press Release
DSG/SM/214


DEPUTY-SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN FLETCHER SCHOOL ADDRESS, DESCRIBES LESSONS LEARNED,


SOMETIMES PAINFULLY, IN MORE THAN DECADE OF COMPLEX, PEACE-BUILDING MISSIONS


Following is Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette’s address to the Fletcher Conference on Innovative Approaches:  “Rethinking Interdisciplinary Action in Conflict”, at Medford, Massachusetts, 19 February:

UNEP/204
18/02/2004
Press Release
UNEP/204


STOCKHOLM CONVENTION ON PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS


TO ENTER INTO FORCE 17 MAY 2004


(Reissued as received.)


GENEVA/NAIROBI, 18 February (UNEP) -- The 2001 Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) will become legally binding on 17 May 2004, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) announced today.