UNITED STATES SIGNS INTERNATIONAL TREATY ON PLANT GENETIC RESOURCES;

EASING WORLD HUNGER IS OBJECTIVE

ROME, 6 November (FAO) -- The United States has added its signature to an International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources which aims to ensure better use of genetic diversity to meet the challenge of eradicating world hunger, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said today.

WARFARE DELIBERATELY AIMED AT ENVIRONMENT MUST BE VIGOROUSLY PREVENTED,

CONDEMNED, SAYS GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT ON INTERNATIONAL DAY

Following is the message of the President of the General Assembly, Jan Kavan (Czech Republic), on the occasion of the International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict, which is observed

6 November:

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Third Committee

38^th Meeting (PM)

SPECIAL RAPPORTEURS REPORT TO THIRD COMMITTEE ON HUMAN RIGHTS

IN BURUNDI, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Third Committee

37^th Meeting (AM)

IN THIRD COMMITTEE, SPECIAL RAPPORTEURS ON MYANMAR, SUDAN STRESS NEED

FOR HUMAN RIGHTS-BASED APPROACH IN BUILDING SUSTAINABLE FUTURE

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Sixth Committee                                             6 November 2002

26^th & 27^th Meetings (AM & PM)

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Fifth Committee

22^nd Meeting (AM)

ELIMINATION OF WASTE, ENHANCEMENT OF PRODUCTIVITY COULD SAVE UNITED NATIONS

$56 MILLION, SAYS OFFICE OF INTERNAL OVERSIGHT SERVICES

CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION’S PROPOSED REFORMS INNOVATIVE, FORWARD

LOOKING SAYS DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL TO FIFTH COMMITTEE

Following are the remarks of Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette to the Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) of the General Assembly in New York on 6 November:

2002 UN Pledging Conference

for World Food Programme

AM Meeting

SIX STATES, HOLY SEE PLEDGE CONTRIBUTIONS TO WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME

Six Member States and an observer mission pledged contributions this morning at the annual United Nations/Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Pledging Conference for the World Food Programme (WFP).

FIFTH REVIEW CONFERENCE OF BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION

TO RESUME IN GENEVA FROM 11 – 22 NOVEMBER

States Parties to Try to Reach Agreement after One-Year Intermission

(Reissued as received.)

SECRETARY-GENERAL ‘VERY ENCOURAGED’ BY SUCCESSFUL CONCLUSION OF SECOND ROUND

OF PEACE TALKS ON SRI LANKA

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