Security Council

4714^th Meeting (AM)

UNITED NATIONS WEAPONS INSPECTORS REPORT TO SECURITY COUNCIL

ON PROGRESS IN DISARMAMENT OF IRAQ

Some Council Members Press for More Time, Strengthened

Inspections; Others Insist That Iraq Has Not Made Strategic Decision to Comply

ELEVEN PALESTINIANS KILLED BY ISRAELI FORCES IN JABALYA REFUGEE CAMP

UNRWA Commissioner-General Hansen Expresses Sorrow and Distress

(Reissued as received.)

MILLENNIUM SUMMIT GOALS CAN BE REACHED ONLY BY INVESTMENT IN WORLD’S WOMEN,

SAYS DEPUTY-SECRETARY-GENERAL, AS WOMEN’S DAY OBSERVED AT HEADQUARTERS

The international community could reach the development goals of the Millennium Summit by 2015 only by investing in the world’s women,

Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette said today, as the United Nations observed International Women’s Day in a Web cast event at Headquarters. 

FORTY-SEVENTH SESSION OF THE UNCC GOVERNING COUNCIL

TO BE HELD FROM 11 TO 13 MARCH 2003

(Reissued as received.)

GENEVA, 7 March (UN Information Service) -- The Governing Council of the United Nations Compensation Commission will hold its forty-seventh session from

11 to 13 March 2003.

WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT KEY TO ACHIEVING MILLENNIUM SUMMIT ANTI-POVERTY GOALS,

SAYS GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT ON INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY

Following is the message of the President of the General Assembly, Jan Kavan (Czech Republic), on International Women’s Day (8 March):

WOMEN’S EQUALITY CRITICAL FOR REACHING MILLENNIUM SUMMIT DEVELOPMENT GOALS,

SAYS DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL TO WOMEN’S DAY OBSERVANCE

Following are the remarks of Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette to the International Women’s Day observance in New York:

CÔTE D’IVOIRE HUMANITARIAN SITUATION DECLINES, AS POLITICAL IMPASSE CONTINUES

Commission on Status of Women

Forty-seventh Session

7^th Meeting (AM & PM)

WOMEN’S ACCESS TO INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES NEEDED TO ERADICATE POVERTY, CREATE

ECONOMICALLY JUST, DEMOCRATIC SOCIETIES, WOMEN’S COMMISSION TOLD

Speakers Also Raise Issues of HIV/AIDS Impact,

SECRETARY-GENERAL ‘DEEPLY DEPLORES’ USE OF EXCESSIVE FORCE

BY ISRAEL IN GAZA REFUGEE CAMP

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

ALL MUST WORK TOGETHER TO COUNTER TERRORISM, PREVENT SPREAD

OF WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS

Following is today’s statement as delivered by Secretary-General Kofi Annan, at the special meeting of the Security Council’s Counter-Terrorism Committee: