SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES APPOINTMENT OF MARJORIE TIVEN AS NEW YORK CITY

COMMISSIONER FOR UNITED NATIONS, CONSULAR CORPS

The following statement was issued this afternoon by the Office of the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

PRESIDENT OF UNITED NATIONS SECURITY COUNCIL AND CHAIRMAN

OF MILITARY STAFF COMMITTEE IN FEBRUARY

In accordance with the principle of alphabetical rotation, the following are the President of the United Nations Security Council and Chairman of the Military Staff Committee for February:

Security Council

Ad Hoc Committee on Assembly

Resolution 51/210

Sixth Session

26^th Meeting (AM)

FINALIZING TREATY REQUIRES AGREEMENT ON ‘ARMED FORCES’,

‘FOREIGN OCCUPATION’, ANTI-TERRORISM COMMITTEE TOLD

Ad Hoc Committee Concludes Current Session

Round-up

COMMITTEE ON RIGHTS OF CHILD CONCLUDES TWENTY-NINTH SESSION

Releases Final Conclusions and Recommendations on Reports

of Lebanon, Greece, Gabon, Mozambique, Chile, Malawi, Bahrain, and Andorra

(Reissued as received.)

Fifty-sixth General Assembly

Third Committee

59^th Meeting (AM)

ISSUES UNRESOLVED AT DURBAN ANTI-RACISM CONFERENCE REMAIN CONTENTIOUS

AS THIRD COMMITTEE CONCLUDES SESSION ON RACIAL INTOLERANCE

Speakers Welcome Anti-Racism Unit

Proposed for United Nations Human Rights Commission

WHO DIRECTOR-GENERAL BRUNDTLAND TO LEAD ECOSOC ROUND TABLE ON HEALTH, 5 FEBRUARY

UN INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES TASK FORCE

HOLDS SECOND MEETING AT HEADQUARTERS

UN SECURITY COUNCIL TO VISIT ETHIOPIA AND ERITREA

All 15 member of the United Nations Security Council will travel to Ethiopia and Eritrea from 20-25 February to address the peace process between the two neighbouring countries and to discuss with the parties the further implementation of their agreements, signed in Algiers in 2000.

The delegation will be headed by Ambassador Ole Peter Kolby of Norway.

Secretary-General Kofi Annan arrived in Austria in the evening of Sunday, 27 January. 

SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES OBSERVANCE OF OLYMPIC TRUCE

DURING SALT LAKE CITY WINTER GAMES

Following is the message by Secretary-General Kofi Annan calling for observance of the Olympic Truce: