STRONG SUPPORT FOR FIRMER ACTION AGAINST ILLEGAL,

UNREPORTED AND UNREGULATED FISHING

(Reissued as received.)

ROME, 3 March (Food and Agriculture Organization) -- The fight against illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing (IUU) goes on unabated.

Round-up release                                               OS/1783*

3 March 2003

OUTER SPACE SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL SUBCOMMITTEE

Note to Correspondents

SPECIAL MEETING OF COUNTER-TERRORISM COMMITTEE WITH INTERNATIONAL,

REGIONAL AND SUBREGIONAL ORGANIZATIONS TO BE HELD ON 6 MARCH

COMMITTEE ON ELIMINATION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION OPENS

SIXTY-SECOND SESSION AT PALAIS DES NATIONS

Hears Address by High Commissioner for Human Rights

(Reissued as received.)

Special Committee on

Peacekeeping Operations

170^th and 171^st Meetings (AM & PM)

PROVISION OF WELL-EQUIPPED, TRAINED AND DISCIPLINED PERSONNEL RESPONSIBILITY

OF ALL MEMBER STATES, PEACEKEEPING COMMITTEE TOLD

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Fifth Committee (Resumed)

39^th Meeting (AM)

NEED FOR INCENTIVES FOR TIMELY PAYMENT OF BUDGETARY CONTRIBUTIONS STRESSED,

AS FIFTH COMMITTEE BEGINS FIRST RESUMED SESSSION

Also Considers Sexual Exploitation of Refugees,

TheUnited Nations, OSCE TO HOLD Conference on Illicit Trade in Small Arms

AND LIGHT Weapons in South-Eastern Europe, 11-12 MARCH, IN SLOVENIA

Background Release

WOMEN’S COMMISSION WILL HOLD 47^TH SESSION AT HEADQUARTERS 3-14 MARCH;

FOCUS:  WOMEN AND MEDIA; VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN

The Commission on the Status of Women will hold its forty-seventh session from 3 to 14 March at Headquarters, focusing on two thematic issues -- women and the media and violence against women. 

AFRICAN CINEMA CAN HELP MOBILIZE RESOURCES, ENERGY NEEDED TO REACH

MILLENNIUM GOALS, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS

Following is the message by Secretary-GeneralKofi Annan to the eighteenth Pan-African Film and Television Festival in Ouagadougou,Burkina Faso (22 February -- 3 March):

SECRETARY-GENERAL ‘VERY SATISFIED’ WITH OUTCOME OF MISSION RELATING TO CYPRUS SETTLEMENT; SAYS PLAN FOR SETTLEMENT IS ‘FAIR AND BALANCED’

      The following statement was issued today by Secretary-General Kofi Annan in Larnaca, Cyprus: