Note to Correspondents

GENDER EQUALITY AND MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS FOCUS

OF INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY AT HEADQUARTERS, 7 MARCH

Special Committee on

Peacekeeping Operations

172^nd & 173^rd Meetings (AM & PM)

RAPID RESPONSE BY UN KEY TO SAVING LIVES AND REDUCING COSTS, SPEAKERS STRESS

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Fifth Committee (Resumed)

40^th Meeting (AM)

GROWING DISPARITY CITED BETWEEN RESOURCES AND INCREASING WORKLOAD IN UNITED NATIONS

HUMAN RIGHTS OFFICE, AS FIFTH COMMITTEE CONTINUES RESUMED SESSION

Scale of Budget Assessments, Information and Communications

Biographical Note

NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF BAHAMAS PRESENTS CREDENTIALS

(Based on information received from the Protocol and Liaison Service.)

Paulette A. Bethel, the new Permanent Representative of the Bahamas to the United Nations, presented her credentials today to Secretary-General Kofi Annan.

Biographical Note

NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF FIJI PRESENTS CREDENTIALS

(Based on information received from the Protocol and Liaison Service.)

Isikia Rabici Savua, the new Permanent Representative of Fiji to the United Nations, presented his credentials to Secretary-General Kofi Annan today.

Prior to his current appointment, Mr. Savua served as Commissioner of the Fiji Police, a position he held since 1994.

Biographical Note

NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF SIERRA LEONE PRESENTS CREDENTIALS

(Based on information received from the Protocol and Liaison Service.)

Joe Robert Pemagbi, the new Permanent Representative of Sierra Leone to the United Nations, today presented his credentials to Secretary-General Kofi Annan.

Biographical Note

NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF RWANDA PRESENTS CREDENTIALS

(Based on information received from the Protocol and Liaison Service.)

Stanislas Kamanzi, the new Permanent Representative of Rwanda to the United Nations, today presented his credentials to Secretary-General Kofi Annan.

Biographical Note

NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF MONGOLIA PRESENTS CREDENTIALS

(Based on information received from the Protocol and Liaison Service.)

Baatar Choisuren, the new Permanent Representative of Mongolia to the United Nations, presented his credentials today to Secretary-General Kofi Annan.

[OCHA]

ACCESS LIMITATIONS IN ANGOLA PLACE314,000 IN CRITICAL NEED

      NEW YORK,4 March (OCHA) --The United Nations Office for the Coordina tion of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Angola, where the United Nations runs one of the largest relief operations in the world, reports that the needs of some

Commission on Status of Women

Forty-seventh Session

1^st & 2^nd Meetings (AM & PM)                                 

GENDER EQUALITY CENTRAL TO ACHIEVING MILLENNIUM SUMMIT DEVELOPMENT GOALS,

WOMEN’S COMMISSION TOLD, AS FORTY-SEVENTH SESSION OPENS