Press Release

Preparatory Committee for the

International Conference

 on Financing for Development

5^th Meeting (PM)

PREPARATIONS FOR INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON FINANCING FOR DEVELOPMENT:

NEGOTIATIONS CONTINUE ON FINAL ‘MONTERREY CONSENSUS’

Committee on Elimination of

Discrimination against Women

Twenty-sixth Session

543^rd and 544^th Meetings (AM and PM)

COMMITTEE IS GENERALLY ‘ENCOURAGED’ BY RUSSIAN FEDERATION REPORT,

BUT CONCERNED OVER CHECHNYA, WOMEN’S ACCESS TO SENIOR POSITIONS

The Secretary-General arrived in Kabul this morning to offer moral support to the new Interim Administration and to thank members of the United Nations staff in Afghanistan for their sustained effort to provide humanitarian assistance to the Afghan people.

The Secretary-General left Tokyo for Islamabad, Pakistan, on the morning of Wednesday, 23 January, stopping in Bangkok, Thailand, to pick up a private plane that Qatar made available to him for the next legs of his trip.

UN REPORT RELEASED ON INVESTIGATION INTO ALLEGATIONS OF REFUGEE SMUGGLING;

NINE INDIVIDUALS ARRESTED BY KENYAN AUTHORITIES

Committee on NGOs                                           NGO/460*

Committee on NGOs

49^th Meeting (AM)

COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS THREE NGOS FOR SPECIAL CONSULTATIVE STATUS

WITH ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL

                                                            ENV/DEV/605*

Committee on Elimination of

Discrimination against Women

Twenty-sixth Session

541^st and 542^nd Meetings (AM and PM)

COMMITTEE EXPERTS CASTIGATE SLOW PACE OF PROGRESS

TOWARDS GENDER EQUALITY IN URUGUAY

FIFTY-THIRD VOLUME OF UNITED NATIONS YEARBOOK PUBLISHED

COVERING ORGANIZATION’S MAJOR ACTIVITIES IN 1999