Preparatory Committee for the                               DEV/2373*

 International Conference                                   15 February 2002

Commission for Social Development

Fortieth Session

7^th and 8^th Meetings (AM & PM)

RIGHTS-BASED APPROACH TO DISABILITY ISSUES, SECOND AGEING ASSEMBLY

DISCUSSED IN COMMISSION FOR SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT

Secretary-General Kofi Annan travelled to Washington, D.C., in the morning of Wednesday, 13 February.

                                                            SG/A/787

PRESS STATEMENT ON MIDDLE EAST SITUATION BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT

Following is the text of this morning’s press statement on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestine question, by Security Council President Adolfo Aguilar Zinser (Mexico):

'EDUCATION FOR ALL' BEST INVESTMENT FOR DEVELOPMENT,

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL TOLD

At a round-table discussion held today, as part of preparations for this year’s high-level segment of the Economic and Social Council’s substantive session, it was agreed that education for all was the best investment a country could make for its development. 

ICJ REJECTS BELGIAN ARREST WARRANT FOR FOREIGN MINISTER

OF DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO

(Reissued as received.)

THE HAGUE, 14 February (ICJ) – Today, the International Court of Justice (ICJ), principal judicial organ of the United Nations, delivered its Judgment in the case concerning the arrest warrant of 11 April 2000 (Democratic Republic of the Congo v. Belgium).

Commission for Social Development

Fortieth Session

5^th and 6^th Meetings (AM & PM)

SPEAKERS STRESS QUALITY OF LIFE AS KEY SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT GOAL IN CONCLUDING

COMMISSION'S DEBATE ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL POLICY INTEGRATION

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY MAKERS MUST PROVIDE ‘COHERENT VISION’ TO JOHANNESBURG

SUMMIT, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN MESSAGE TO GLOBAL FORUM

Following is the message of Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the Global Ministerial Environment Forum in Cartagena, Colombia, delivered on his behalf by Klaus Toepfer, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), on 13 February:

SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES TOGOLESE PARTIES TO RETURN TO LOMÉ AGREEMENT CONSENSUS

The following statement, originally issued in French on 12 February, was issued by the Office of the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan: