MOUNTAIN ECOSYSTEMS FUNDAMENTAL TO LIFE BUT EXTREMELY FRAGILE,

SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS IN MESSAGE TO GLOBAL MOUNTAIN SUMMIT

Following is the message by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the Global Mountain Summit, delivered by Johannes van Ginkel, Rector, United Nations University in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, today:

Security Council

Resumed 4635th Meeting (AM)

SPEAKERS EMPHASIZE NEED FOR GENDER PERSPECTIVE IN PEACEKEEPING MANDATES,

AS SECURITY COUNCIL RESUMES DEBATE ON WOMEN, PEACE AND SECURITY

HR/4625

29 October 2002

UN RIGHTS EXPERT COMPLETES FACT-FINDING MISSION TO MYANMAR

Urges Ruling Council to Allow "Adequate Presence"

Of International Committee of Red Cross in All Conflict Areas

(Reissued as received.)

GENEVA, 28 October (UN Information Service) -- The following statement was issued today by Paulo Sergio Pinheiro, the Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Myanmar:

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Fourth Committee

16th Meeting (PM)

UNDER-SECRETARY-GENERAL DESCRIBES TRANSFORMED PUBLIC INFORMATION DEPARTMENT

WITH RENEWED FOCUS, CLARITY OF PURPOSE IN STATEMENT TO FOURTH COMMITTEE

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Third Committee

29^th Meeting (PM)

VIEWED NARROWLY AS RIGHT TO SECEDE, SELF-DETERMINATION COULD THREATEN

TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY OF STATES, THIRD COMMITTEE TOLD

Discussion of Self-Determination, Racism Concludes

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

First Committee

23^rd Meeting (AM)

FIRST COMMITTEE CONCLUDES CONSIDERATION OF DISARMAMENT, INTERNATIONAL SECURITY

DRAFT TEXTS, AS CHAIRMAN WITHDRAWS MULTILATERALISM DRAFT

Fifty-seventh General Assembly                            GA/AB/3531

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Plenary

37^th Meeting (AM)

GENERAL ASSEMBLY SPEAKERS NOTE GROWING GLOBAL CONFIDENCE

IN QUALITY OF WORK OF INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE

Efforts to Increase Efficiency Lauded; President of Court

Says Higher Budget Allowed Staff Increase, Better Spread of Information

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL LAUNCHES BID FOR INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT

FOR POST-CONFLICT RECOVERY EFFORTS IN GUINEA-BISSAU

Fact-Finding Mission Will Determine Country’s Humanitarian Needs

The first implementation of an initiative by the United Nations Economic and Social Council to assist countries emerging from conflict took shape today, at a meeting of the Council’s Ad Hoc Advisory Group on Guinea-Bissau.

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