UNITED NATIONS AGENCIES APPLAUD NEW POLITICAL

FOCUS ON HUNGER AND RURAL POVERTY

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PARIS/ROME, 1 March (FAO/WFP/IFAD) -- In a meeting today with French President Jacques Chirac, the heads of the three Rome-based UN food agencies welcomed the renewed vigour with which hunger and rural poverty are being addressed.

OUTER SPACE SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL SUBCOMMITTEE CONCLUDES 41^ST SESSION IN VIENNA

Reviews Implementation of Recommendations

Of UNISPACE III, Discusses Space-based Telemedicine

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Ad Hoc Committee on Jurisdictional                         

Immunities of States and Their Property                    

7^th Meeting (AM)

AD HOC COMMITTEE NEGOTIATING CONVENTION ON JURISDICTIONAL

Security Council

4919^th Meeting (Night)

SECURITY COUNCIL AUTHORIZES DEPLOYMENT OF MULTINATIONAL FORCE TO HAITI

FOR 3 MONTHS, UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTING RESOLUTION 1529 (2004)

Declares Readiness to Establish Follow on Stabilization

Force to Support Peaceful, Consitutional Political Process

SECRETARY-GENERAL OFFERS UN’S CONTINUED COMMITMENT AS AFRICAN UNION

BEGINS CONSOLIDATING COMMON STRATEGY FOR PEACE, SECURITY

Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message to the extraordinary session of the Assembly of the African Union, in Sirte, 27 February, delivered by Tuliameni Kalomoh, United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs.

STRENGTHENED UN PRESENCE IN CÔTE D’IVOIRE WILL FACILITATE HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE,

RESTORATION OF STATE AUTHORITY, SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS SECURITY COUNCIL

Following is the statement by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the Security Council meeting on Côte d’Ivoire today:

Security Council                                           

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN MARCH 2004

The following is a tentative list of United Nations meetings scheduled to be held in March, including major meetings of intergovernmental organizations related to the United Nations:

FIRST SESSION OF COMMITTEE ON PROTECTION OF RIGHTS

OF MIGRANTS IN GENEVA FROM 1 TO 5 MARCH

Committee to Elect Bureau, Establish its Rules of Procedure,

Draw Up General Guidelines on Reports to be Submitted by States Parties

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