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)

GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT URGES PARTICIPANTS AT MADRID CONFERENCE ON AGEING

TO WORK FOR EARLY IMPLEMENTATION OF INTERNATIONAL PLAN OF ACTION

Following is today’s address by Han Seung-soo (Republic of Korea), President of the General Assembly, to the Madrid World Assembly on Ageing:

STATEMENT BY BUREAU OF COMMITTEE ON EXERCISE OF INALIENABLE RIGHTS

OF PALESTINIAN PEOPLE

(Reissued as received.)

The Bureau of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People adopted the following statement at its meeting in New York on

5 April 2002:

Commission on Population and Development

Thirty-fifth Session

7^th Meeting (AM)

COMMISSION ON POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT CALLS FOR CONTINUED RESEARCH

ON POPULATION, REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS, REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH

As 35^th Session Ends, Commission Adopts Agenda

-- ‘Population, Education, Development’ –- for Next Session

Human Rights Committee

Seventy-fourth Session

2011^th Meeting (AM)

HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE CONCLUDES WORK OF SEVENTY-FOURTH SESSION

‘THE MOST PRODUCTIVE IN HISTORY’, SAY EXPERTS

Reports of Gambia, Viet Nam, New Zealand,

Yemen, Republic of Moldova to Be Considered at Seventy-Fifth Session

Commission on Sustainable Development

Acting as Preparatory Committee for

 World Summit on Sustainable Development

4^th Meeting (PM)

PREPARATORY COMMITTEE FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT SUMMIT CONCLUDES THIRD SESSION

Final Session Will Be Held in Bali, Indonesia, 27 May-7 June;

‘THIRD PARTY MEDIATION IS NEEDED MORE THAN EVER’, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS

IN STATEMENT TO SECURITY COUNCIL MEETING ON MIDEAST

Welcomes Mission by United States Secretary Powell,

As Parties Unable, on Their Own, to Find Way Out of Current Situation

The following is the statement by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the Security Council on 4 April:

GLOBAL REPORTING INITIATIVE WILL FOSTER CORPORATE TRANSPARENCY, ACCOUNTABILITY

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN MESSAGE TO OFFICIAL INAUGURATION

Following is the message of Secretary-General Kofi Annan, delivered on his behalf by Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette, to the official inauguration of the Global Reporting Initiative in New York on 4 April:

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES GIFT FROM GERMANY OF PIECE OF BERLIN WALL

Following are the remarks of Secretary-General Kofi Annan upon presentation of a gift from Germany of a piece of the Berlin Wall, at Headquarters on 4 April:

Thanks to the generosity of the Government and the people of Germany, today we welcome another extraordinary item to the United Nations collection.