SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES CONTINUING VIGILANCE IN PROTECTING OZONE LAYER

Following is the message by Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer, on 16 September:

Life started to develop significantly on our planet only after the ozone layer was in place in the stratosphere to filter out harmful levels of sunlight.  The battle to repair this life-sustaining system is far from over.

SECURITY COUNCIL COMMITTEE ADDS NAME OF AN INDIVIDUAL

AND AN ENTITY TO ITS LIST

The Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1267 (1999) has added on 11 September 2002 the following individual and entity to its list (Al-Qaida section):

Security Council

4607^th Meeting (PM)

SECURITY COUNCIL HONOURS MEMORY OF VICTIMS OF 11 SEPTEMBER ATTACKS,

EXPRESSES SENSE OF SOLIDARITY WITH THEIR FAMILIES

DPI/NGO Annual Conference                                NGO/480/Rev.1*

DPI/NGO Annual Conference

AM & PM Meetings

NGO/DPI CONFERENCE CONCLUDES WITH FOCUS ON REBUILDING SOCIETIES AFTER CONFLICT

Yugoslav President and East Timorese Vice-Minister Address Closing Session

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

General Committee

1^st and 2^nd Meetings (AM & PM)

GENERAL COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS AGENDA FOR FIFTY-SEVENTH

SESSION TO GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Decides Not To Recommend Inclusion of Item

On ‘Representation of the Republic of China (Taiwan)’

Biographical Note

ARPAD PRANDLER OF HUNGARY CHAIRMAN OF SIXTH COMMITTEE

Arpad Prandler (Hungary) was elected Chairman of the Sixth Committee (Legal) by the General Assembly on 17 July.

Biographical Note

GRAHAM MAITLAND OF SOUTH AFRICA:  CHAIRMAN OF FOURTH COMMITTEE

      Counsellor at the Permanent Mission of South Africa to the United Nations, Graham Maitland was elected Chairman of the Fourth Committee (Special Political and Decolonization) on 17 July.

Biographical Note

CHRISTIAN WENAWESER OF LIECHTENSTEIN CHAIRMAN OF THIRD COMMITTEE

      The Counsellor and Deputy Permanent Representative of Liechtenstein, Christian Wenaweser, was elected Chairman of the Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) on 17 July this year.