Biographical Note

                                                            BIO/3397

UN EXPERT GROUP MEETING TO EXAMINE ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT,

MITIGATION OF NATURAL DISASTERS

(Reissued as received.)

                                                            AFR/351

PRESS STATEMENT ON BURUNDI BY PRESIDENT OF SECURITY COUNCIL

PRESS STATEMENT ON LIBERIA BY PRESIDENT OF SECURITY COUNCIL

Following is the text of today’s press statement on Liberia by M. Patricia Durrant (Jamaica), President of the Security Council:

Members of the Council heard a briefing by the Chairman of the Security Committee established pursuant to Resolution 1343 (2001) concerning Liberia on the two meetings between the Committee and the Panel of Experts on their report (S/2001/1015).

Note to Correspondents

HUMAN RIGHTS SPECIAL RAPPORTEURS TO BRIEF GENERAL ASSEMBLY

The Special Rapporteur and Representatives of the Commission on Human Rights will be in New York to report to the General Assembly's Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) from 8 to 12 November.  They will be available to correspondents for interviews.  This is the schedule of their statements to the Committee:

8 November

                                                                  Note No. 5691

Fifty-sixth General Assembly

Sixth Committee

16^th &17^th Meetings (AM/PM)*

SIXTH COMMITTEE HEARS OF PROPOSED TREATY ON TRANSBOUNDARY

HARM RESULTING FROM HAZARDOUS ACTIVITIES

PANEL HEARS RANGE OF VIEWS ON ‘GLOBALIZATION AND THE STATE’

African countries should identify, analyze and diagnose their strengths and weaknesses in light of the opportunities and challenges posed by globalization, the Prime Minister of Uganda, Apolo Nsibambi, said this morning during a panel discussion on globalization and the State.

Fifty-sixth General Assembly

First Committee

21^st Meeting (PM)

RUSSIAN FEDERATION, UNITED STATES CALLED ON TO STRENGTHEN ABM TREATY

UNDER DRAFT RESOLUTION APPROVED BY FIRST COMMITTEE

Also Approves Texts on Space Arms Race, Nuclear-Free Africa,

Middle East, Nuclear-Free Southern Hemisphere; Regional Centres

Fifty-sixth General Assembly

Fifth Committee

22^nd Meeting (AM)

FIFTH COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS APPOINTMENTS TO ACABQ, CONTRIBUTIONS COMMITTEE, BOARD

OF AUDITORS, INVESTMENTS COMMITTEE, INTERNATIONAL CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION