GOVERNMENTS REACH AGREEMENT ON NEW UNITED NATIONS TREATY

ON POLLUTION INFORMATION DISCLOSURE

(Reissued as received; delayed in transmission.)

GENEVA, 31 January (UNECE) -- Negotiations on a new international treaty under which companies will be required to publicly disclose information on their output of pollutants came to a successful conclusion in Geneva yesterday evening.

SECRETARIAT OF PERMANENT FORUM ON INDIGENOUS ISSUES ESTABLISHED

BY DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL AFFAIRS

SECRETARY-GENERAL’S ADVISORY BOARD ON DISARMAMENT MATTERS

TO MEET FROM 5 TO 7 FEBRUARY

UN HUMANITARIAN ENVOY FOR CRISIS IN CÔTE D’IVOIRE VISITS LIBERIA

NEW YORK, 3 February (Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs) -- Carolyn McAskie, t he Secretary-General’sHumanitarian Envoy for the Crisis in Cô te d’Ivoire, concluded a three-day mission to Liberia today. 

Committee on Elimination of

Discrimination against Women

608^th Meeting (PM)

WOMEN’S ANTI-DISCRIMINATION COMMITTEE CONCLUDES THREE-WEEK SESSION,

AFTER CONSIDERING REPORTS OF EIGHT STATES PARTIES TO CONVENTION

Legislative Reforms, Customary Law and Traditional Practices,

INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL BOARD SESSION TO FOCUS

ON DRUGS, CRIME AND VIOLENCE

(Reissued as received.)

VIENNA, 31 January (UN Information Service) -- The impact of drugs, crime and violence on individuals, families and neighbourhoods will be the focus of attention for the members of the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) as they meet for their five-day session here from 3 February.

PRESIDENT OF UNITED NATIONS SECURITY COUNCIL AND CHAIRMAN

OF MILITARY STAFF COMMITTEE IN FEBRUARY

In accordance with the principle of alphabetical rotation, the following are the President of the United Nations Security Council and the Chairman of the Military Staff Committee for February:

Security Council

Gunter Pleuger, Permanent Representative of Germany, succeeds Jean-Marc

Security Council

4699^th Meeting (AM)

AFGHAN PEACE PROCESS NOT IRREVERSIBLE; FURTHER PROGRESS NEEDED,

SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE TELLS SECURITY COUNCIL

The peace process in Afghanistan needed to progress “much further” before it could be safely said that it was irreversible, the Special Representative for Afghanistan, Lakdhar Brahimi, told the Security Council this morning.

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN FEBRUARY 2003

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:

January/February      United Nations Staff Pension Committee

(1 meeting), New York

Background Release

STATES PARTIES TO INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT TO MEET

AT HEADQUARTERS, 3 - 7 FEBRUARY

Election of Court’s 18 Judges to Begin on 4 February

The first-ever election of the 18 judges of the International Criminal Court will begin on 4 February at United Nations Headquarters, as part of the resumed first session of the Assembly of the States Parties of the Court, convening from  3 to 7 February.