Security Council

4715^th Meeting (AM)

RECENT VIOLENCE, RISE IN ARMED GROUPS THREATEN SUCCESS IN TIMOR-LESTE,

PEACEKEEPING UNDER-SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS SECURITY COUNCIL

Secretary-General Recommends UN Mission Enhance Capacity

FAO REPORTS PROGRESS IN IMPLEMENTING SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT

(Reissued as received.)

ASBESTOS, THREE DEADLY PESTICIDES AND TWO FORMS OF LEAD

TARGETED FOR INTERNATIONAL ACTION

(Reissued as received.)

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Fifth Committee (Resumed)

43^rd Meeting (AM)                   

FIFTH COMMITTEE APPROVES DRAFT RESOLUTION CONTAINING RECOMMENDATIONS

ON UN CONFERENCES, MEETINGS SERVICING

Also Considers Joint Inspection Unit Reports

on Extrabudgetary Activities, Results-Based Budgeting

AFR/576

IHA/766

HUMANITARIAN EFFORTS IN ERITREA FACE FUNDING CRISIS

United Nations   Nations Unies

Commission on Status of Women

Forty-seventh Session

8^th Meeting (AM)

POVERTY, HIV/AIDS, VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN CLEAR HUMAN RIGHTS PRIORITIES,

HIGH COMMISSIONER TELLS WOMEN’S COMMISSION

SECRETARY-GENERAL PLEASED AT AGREEMENT BY PARTIES TO INTER-CONGOLESE DIALOGUE

BUT EXPRESSES DEEP CONCERN OVER RECENT HEAVY FIGHTING REGARDING BUNIA

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

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.