Special Committee on

Decolonization

1^st Meeting (AM) 

SECRETARY-GENERAL CALLS FOR REINVIGORATION OF DECOLONIZATION PROCESS,

AS SPECIAL COMMITTEE OPENS 2003 SESSION AT HEADQUARTERS

Newly-Elected Chair Says States Administering

Final 16 Territories Should See Committee as Partner, Not Adversary

FOOD INSECURITY LIKELY TO WORSEN IN NORTHERN UGANDA

NEW YORK, 12 February (OCHA) -- In Uganda, a persistent lack of security and funding shortfalls are placing already vulnerable populations in greater danger.

Commission for Social Development

Forty-first Session

2^nd & 3^rd Meetings (AM & PM)                              

UNDER-SECRETARY-GENERAL STRESSES SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION’S PROFOUND

ROLE IN SHAPING DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION AGENDA, AS 41^ST SESSION OPENS

SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS UNITED NATIONS HAS DUTY TO EXHAUST ALL POSSIBILITIES

OF PEACEFUL SETTLEMENT BEFORE RESORTING TO USE OF FORCE

Following is the text of the address delivered by Secretary-General Kofi Annan on 8 February at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia:

SECRETARY-GENERAL STRONGLY CONDEMNS TERRORIST ATTACK IN COLOMBIA

The following statement was issued on 8 February by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

UNRWA:  AID FOR PALESTINIANS SUFFERS DUE TO FOCUS ON IRAQ

Emergency Food Programme to End in March

Note to Correspondents

CONFERENCE ON ‘CARING COMMUNITIES –- IMAGINING THE AGE OF CONNECTIVITY’

TO BE HELD AT UN HEADQUARTERS ON 12 FEBRUARY

A conference on “Caring Communities for the 21st Century:  Imagining the Possible ‘Age of Connectivity’” will take place on Wednesday, 12 February, in Conference Room 4, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Meeting of States Parties

Convention on Rights of Child

15^th & 16^th Meetings (AM & PM)

UN HUMANITARIAN ENVOY CONCLUDES FIVE-COUNTRY WEST AFRICA TRIP

TO ASSESS IMPACT OF CÔTE D’IVOIRE CRISIS

ACTION ON CHEMICALS POLLUTION AND SUPPORT FOR AFRICA AGREED

AT END OF GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT MINISTERS MEETING

UNEP's 22nd Governing Council Starts Making

Johannesburg Plan of Implementation Operational

(Reissued as received.)