UN SECRETARY-GENERAL, OPENING SECOND WORLD ASSEMBLY ON AGEING IN MADRID,

URGES PLAN OF ACTION TO BUILD A SOCIETY FOR ALL AGES

‘Group of 77’ and China Call for New Body Devoted to Issues of Ageing

(Received from a UN Information Officer.)

WITH AGEING OF GLOBAL POPULATION, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL,

‘THERE IS NO TIME TO LOSE’ IN PREPARING FUTURE

Following is the text of today’s address to the Madrid NGO Forum on Ageing by Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES AGREEMENT ON INTER-KOREAN RELATIONS

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL STRESSES CHALLENGE OF BUILDING A SOCIETY FIT FOR PEOPLE

OF ALL AGES, IN ADDRESS TO SECOND WORLD ASSEMBLY ON AGEING, MADRID

The following is the text of the address by Secretary-General Kofi Annan, as delivered to the Second World Assembly on Ageing in Madrid:

INFORMAL CONSULTATIVE PROCESS ON OCEAN AFFAIRS TO HOLD THIRD MEETING

AT HEADQUARTERS, 8 - 15 APRIL

To Focus on Protection, Preservation of Marine Environment; Capacity-

Building, Regional Cooperation and Coordination, Integrated Ocean Management

The Third Meeting of the United Nations Consultative Process on Ocean Affairs will focus its one-week session, to be held at Headquarters from 8 to

Security Council

4510^th Meeting* (PM)

SECURITY COUNCIL MEETS AGAIN ON MIDDLE EAST, AT REQUEST OF ARAB GROUP,

WITH SPEAKERS DEMANDING IMPLEMENTATION OF RECENT RESOLUTIONS

Many Stress Need for Deployment of International Observer Force,

PRESS STATEMENT ON MIDDLE EAST BY PRESIDENT OF SECURITY COUNCIL

Following is the text of yesterday’s press statement on the Middle East by the President of the Security Council, Sergey Lavrov (Russian Federation):

The consultations of the Security Council were convened at the request of the Arab Group.

The members of the Security Council have met in their determination to ensure the implementation of resolutions 1397, 1402 and 1403.

UN:  ‘END THE HORROR IN THE CAMPS’

GAZA, 7 April (UNRWA) -- Peter Hansen, Commissioner General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), has called on the Israeli military to cease its bloody assault on Palestinian refugee camps in the West Bank.

TREATY ON SUPPRESSION OF FINANCING OF TERRORISM COMES INTO FORCE

(Received from a UN Information Officer.)

NEW YORK, 5 April -- A new and potentially powerful anti-terrorism measure, the International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism, will enter into force on 10 April 2002, having received more than the required

Preparatory Commission for

International Criminal Court

34^th Meeting (AM)