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:

PRESS STATEMENT ON LIBERIA BY PRESIDENT OF SECURITY COUNCIL

Following is the text of today’s press statement on Liberia by Adolfo Aguilar Zinser (Mexico), President of the Security Council:

Security Council

4473^rd Meeting (PM)

SECURITY COUNCIL EXPRESSES FULL SUPPORT FOR NEW SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR KOSOVO

The Security Council this afternoon expressed full support for the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Michael Steiner, upon his assumption of the position as Head of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK).

Security Council

4472^nd Meeting (AM)

BRIEFED ON SITUATION IN ANGOLA, COUNCIL MEMBERS CALL FOR TIGHTER SANCTIONS

AGAINST NATIONAL UNION FOR THE TOTAL INDEPENDENCE OF ANGOLA (UNITA))

Plight of 4 Million Internally Displaced,

Humanitarian Access to Remote Areas, among Members’ Concerns

Economic and Social Council

2002 Organizational Session

2^nd Meeting (PM)

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL APPROVES AGENDA FOR JULY 2002 SUBSTANTIVE SESSION

Hears Briefings on Coordination Board, ‘World Economic and Social Prospect 2002’

The Economic and Social Council took a number of decisions regarding its 2002 substantive session, to be held in July, during its organizational session this afternoon.

Commission for Social Development

Fortieth Session

3^rd and 4^th Meetings (AM & PM)

INCORPORATING SOCIAL GOALS INTO ECONOMIC POLICIES FURTHERS ECONOMIC PROGRESS,

SPEAKERS TELL SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION

IMPLEMENTATION OF MITCHELL RECOMMENDATIONS, TENET UNDERSTANDINGS CRITICAL

TO STOPPING 'DEADLY SPIRAL OF VIOLENCE', SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS

Following is the statement by Secretary-General Kofi Annan at the opening of the 2002 session of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People:

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE EXPRESSES SATISFACTION AT PROGRESS ACHIEVED

TOWARDS REVITALIZING UNIVERSITY FOR PEACE

(Delayed in transmission.)

HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS WELCOMES ENTRY INTO FORCE

OF INSTRUMENT AGAINST USE OF CHILD SOLDIERS

GENEVA, 12 February (UN Information Service) -- A treaty to ban the use of children as soldiers comes into force today, crowning ten years of international efforts to fight one of the major causes of human rights violations in the world.