ENVIRONMENTAL STUDY OF OCCUPIED TERRITORIES TO BE UNDERTAKEN BY UNEP

CARTAGENA, Colombia, 15 February (UNEP) -- A decision to assess the environmental situation in the occupied Palestinian territories has been taken at a meeting of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), meeting this week in special session in the Colombian city of Cartagena.

Fifty-sixth General Assembly

Third Committee

60^th Meeting (PM)

THIRD COMMITTEE CONSIDERS DRAFT PROPOSALS ON ELIMINATION

OF RACISM, RACIAL DISCRIMINATION

The Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) met this afternoon to hear the introduction of draft proposals relating to the elimination of racism and racial discrimination.

Resumed Fifty-sixth General Assembly                                                            GA/10009*

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).