SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES MEETING OF STATES PARTIES TO ENSURE CONVENTION

ON CERTAIN CONVENTIONAL WEAPONS REMAINS HEALTHY, EFFECTIVE

The following is the text of today’s message by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the Meeting of the States Parties to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, in Geneva:

SECRETARY-GENERAL HAILS AMENDED PROTOCOL TO PROHIBITIONS ON USE OF MINES,

BOOBY-TRAPS IN MESSAGE TO HIGH CONTRACTING PARTIES

Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message delivered yesterday to the Fourth Annual Conference of the High Contracting Parties to the

Amended Protocol in Geneva:

HIGH-LEVEL COORDINATOR INVITED TO VISIT IRAQ

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL HAILS SUCCESSFUL COMPLETION OF UNITED NATIONS

MISSIONS IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA, PREVLAKA

Following is the statement by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the Security Council meeting on the conclusion of the United Nations missions in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Prevlaka, New York, 12 December 2002:

CONVENTION ON TRANSBOUNDARY MOVEMENTS OF HAZARDOUS WASTES IS CRUCIAL

TO QUEST FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL

Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message to the Sixth Conference of the Parties to the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal, delivered on his behalf by Klaus Töpfer, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme, Geneva, 12 December 2002:

Security Council

4663^rd Meeting (PM)

SECURITY COUNCIL, IN PRESIDENTIAL STATEMENT, WELCOMES DECLARATION

ON CESSATION OF HOSTILITIES IN SOMALIA

Council Urges Practical Steps

To Grant Safe, Unfettered Access to Humanitarian Personnel

Security Council

4662^nd Meeting (AM)

SECURITY COUNCIL, IN PRESIDENTIAL STATEMENT, WELCOMES AGREEMENT

BETWEEN CROATIA, YUGOSLAVIA CONCERNING PREVLAKA PENINSULA

Thanks UN Mission on Peninsula, Which Concludes 15 December,

For Helping Create Conditions Leading to Negotiated Settlement

Security Council

4661st Meeting (AM)

SECURITY COUNCIL EXPRESSES DEEP APPRECIATION FOR EFFORTS LEADING TO SUCCESSFUL

CONCLUSION OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA MISSION, IN PRESIDENTIAL STATEMENT

Mandate Expires 31 December 2002; Secretary-General Says

Success Demonstrates Peacekeeping “Can Make an Important Difference”

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Fifth Committee

36^th Meeting (PM)

FIFTH COMMITTEE DEFERS ACTION ON DRAFT TEXTS

The Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) this afternoon decided to further defer action on all the remaining items on its agenda, to give delegations more time to negotiate.

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Fifth Committee

35^th Meeting (AM)

FIFTH COMMITTEE CONSIDERS PROGRAMME BUDGET IMPLICATIONS OF DRAFT TEXT

ON FOLLOW-UP TO CONFERENCE ON FINANCING FOR DEVELOPMENT