PROBLEMS OF LANDLOCKED COUNTRIES GET LATIN LOOK, AS SEVEN NATIONAL MINISTERS

MEET ON 12-13 MARCH IN PARAGUAY

Commission on Status of Women

Forty-seventh Session

9^th Meeting (PM)

WOMEN’S COMMISSION ADOPTS PROVISIONAL AGENDA FOR NEXT SESSION; TEXTS

ON GENDER PERSPECTIVE, PALESTINIAN WOMEN, HIV/AIDS INTRODUCED

UNCTAD DISPUTE SETTLEMENT COURSE NOW AVAILABLE ONLINE

(Reissued as received.)

GENEVA, 10 March (UNCTAD) -– An online course on dispute settlement in international trade, investment and intellectual property is now available, free of charge, on the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Web site (http://www.unctad.org/dispsett).

SECRETARY-GENERAL AWAITS REPLIES FROM GREEK, TURKISH CYPRIOT LEADERS

The following statement was released at The Hague on 9 March by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

The Secretary-General has arrived in The Hague for meetings tomorrow,

10 March 2003, regarding Cyprus.  He has invited the Greek Cypriot leader,

Mr. Tassos Papadopoulos, and the Turkish Cypriot leader, Mr. Rauf Denktash, to

PRESS STATEMENT ON DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT

Following is today’s statement to the press on the Democratic Republic of the Congo by Security Council President Mamady Traoré (Guinea):

Members of the Council welcome the agreement reached among Congolese parties in Pretoria.  They stressed the importance of the transitional Government in the Democratic Republic of the Congo being established as soon as possible.

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

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