SECRETARY-GENERAL CONCERNED AT CONTINUING VIOLENCE IN MIDDLE EAST

The following statement was issued on 26 July by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

PRESS STATEMENT ON MIDDLE EAST, OTHER MATTERS BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT

Following is today’s statement to the press on the Middle East and Western Sahara by Jeremy Greenstock (United Kingdom), President of the Security Council:

Middle East

Security Council

4591^st Meeting* (PM)

SECURITY COUNCIL EXTENDS MANDATE OF UN MISSION IN GEORGIA UNTIL 31 JANUARY 2003

The Security Council, stressing that the continued lack of progress on key issues of a comprehensive settlement of the conflict in Abkhazia, Georgia, was unacceptable, decided this morning to extend the mandate of the United Nations Observer Mission in Georgia (UNOMIG) until 31 January 2003.

PRESS STATEMENT ON MIDDLE EAST BY PRESIDENT OF SECURITY COUNCIL

Following is the statement to the press on the Middle East by Security Council President Jeremy Greenstock (United Kingdom) delivered last Friday,

26 July:

JOINT FAO/WFP REPORT:  DESPITE BETTER SPRING HARVEST, DEMOCRATIC

PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF KOREA NEEDS MORE FOOD AID

PYONGYANG/ROME, 29 July (FAO/WFP) -- Despite improved harvests this year, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea urgently needs fresh pledges of external assistance to help plug a food gap threatening millions of its most vulnerable citizens ahead of the main harvests in September/October, two United Nations agencies said today.

POPULATION FUND REFUTES REPORTS OF PERU STERILIZATIONS

Note to Correspondents

WORLD-CLASS FOOTBALL TEAMS TO MEET IN MATCH TO BENEFIT

GLOBAL FIGHT AGAINST HIV/AIDS

Ad Hoc Committee on Convention

on Rights of Persons with Disabilities

1^st Meeting (AM)

AD HOC COMMITTEE ON CONVENTION ON RIGHTS OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES

BEGINS FIRST-EVER MEETING

Round-Up

HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE CONCLUDES SEVENTY-FIFTH SESSION

Adopts Final Conclusions and Recommendations

SECRETARIAT OF ENDANGERED SPECIES TREATY ASSESSES PROPOSALS

FOR CHANGING WILDLIFE TRADE RULES

GENEVA, 29 July (UNEP) -- The secretariat of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) has completed its provisional assessment of the 54 proposals submitted by member countries (Parties) to amend the Convention's lists of wild plant and animal species that are subject to trade controls or prohibitions.