Press Release

MINISTERS TO SIGN NEW ENVIRONMENTAL TREATY ON PROTECTING CASPIAN SEA

TEHRAN, 3 November (UNEP) -– Ministers from Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Russian Federation and Turkmenistan are meeting in Tehran today and tomorrow to adopt and sign the Framework Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the Caspian Sea.

UNODC CALLS FOR INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATION FOLLOWING

INTER-REGIONAL ADVISER’S RESIGNATION

(Reissued as received.)

INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL BOARD EXAMINES IMPACT

OF DRUGS, CRIME AND VIOLENCE AT COMMUNITY LEVEL

(Reissued as received.)

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES 2 NOVEMBER BURUNDI AGREEMENT

AIMED AT SETTLING POLITICAL, POWER-SHARING ISSUES

The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

NO READY-MADE, ONE-SIZE-FITS-ALL SOLUTIONS TO CHALLENGES OF GOVERNANCE,

SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS GLOBAL FORUM ON REINVENTING GOVERNMENT

Following is the message of Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the fifth Global Forum on Reinventing Government, delivered by José Antonio Ocampo, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, Mexico City, 3 to 7 November:

SECRETARY-GENERAL’S MESSAGE TO UN GROUP ON SECURITY IN CENTRAL AFRICA;

ENCOURAGING PROGRESS NOTED, BUT PEACE PROCESSES ‘STILL FRAGILE’

GOVERNMENT USE OF ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGIES SPREADING

WIDELY BUT UNEVENLY, SAYS UNITED NATIONS REPORT

Fifty-eighth General Assembly

Fourth Committee

18^th Meeting (AM)

STRONG SUPPORT EXPRESSED FOR PALESTINE REFUGEE AGENCY, AS FOURTH COMMITTEE

CONTINUES DISCUSSION OF ANNUAL REPORT

Fifty-eighth General Assembly

Third Committee

30^th & 31^st Meetings (AM & PM)

HIGH COMMISSIONER STRESSES NEED TO FIND DURABLE SOLUTIONS, ENSURE HUMAN SECURITY,

AS THIRD COMMITTEE BEGINS REFUGEE DISCUSSION

Fifty-eighth General Assembly

Sixth Committee

20^th Meeting (AM)

LEGAL COMMITTEE, CONTINUING WORK ON LAW COMMISSION REPORT, CONSIDERS

SHARED NATURAL RESOURCES, FRAGMENTATION OF INTERNATIONAL LAW

Draft Texts Presented on Measures against Terrorism, Legal

Protection of UN and Related Personnel, Jurisdictional Immunities of States