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BIRD FLU: SUCCESS OF ERADICATION DEPENDS ON MASS CULLINGS

Financial Incentives Needed to Encourage Emergency Measures in Poor Countries

(Reissued as received.)

BANGKOK, 30 January (FAO) -- The success of eradication of bird flu in affected countries in Asia heavily depends on mass cullings, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said today.

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN FEBRUARY 2004

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

Meetings continued from previous month:

19 January-26 March

Conference on Disarmament, first part, Geneva

26 January-6 February

Round-up

COMMITTEE ON RIGHTS OF CHILD CONCLUDES THIRTY-FIFTH SESSION

Adopts Conclusions on Reports of Indonesia, Guyana, Armenia, Germany

Netherlands (including Aruba), India, Papua New Guinea, Slovenia, Japan

(Reissued as received.)

NASSAU FORUM ADOPTS DECLARATION, STRATEGY PAPER IN PREPARATION

FOR MAURITIUS MEETING ON SMALL ISLAND STATES

(Received from a UN Information Officer.)

Secretary-General Kofi Annan arrived in Paris from Stockholm late on Monday, 26 January.

GLOBAL COMPACT CAN ACHIEVE ITS GOALS ONLY IF LARGE COMPANIES JOIN

INITIATIVE, SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS MEETING OF CEOS IN DAVOS

(Delayed in transmission.)

Following is the text of remarks by Secretary-General Kofi Annan at a breakfast meeting with chief executive officers in Davos, Switzerland on 25 January:

A EUROPE OPEN TO WELL MANAGED MIGRATION WILL BE FAIRER, RICHER,

STRONGER, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN BRUSSELS ADDRESS

Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s address to the European Parliament upon receipt of the Andrei Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, in Brussels, 29 January: