Press Release

INTERNATIONAL SEABED AUTHORITY TO BEGIN WORK NEXT YEAR

ON POLYMETALLIC SULPHIDES AND COBALT-RICH CRUSTS

      KINGSTON, 12 July -- The International Seabed Authority, looking for the first time at two recently discovered sources of valuable minerals in the deep oceans, has set a course for the first leg of its future work on the topic -– the main issue at its seventh session, held in Kingston from 2 to 13 July.

SEABED AUTHORITY ENDS SESSION, TO MEET AGAIN 5-16 AUGUST 2002;

COUNCIL DEFERS STUDY OF ENVIRONMENTAL GUIDELINES

(Received from the International Seabed Authority.)

SEABED COUNCIL REACHES COMPROMISE ON FURTHER STUDY OF POLYMETALLIC

SULPHIDES AND COBALT-RICH CRUSTS

(Received from the International Seabed Authority.)

KINGSTON, 11 July -- The Council of the International Seabed Authority reached a compromise this afternoon on how it should continue work concerning the exploration of polymetallic sulphides and cobalt-rich crusts in the deep seabed.

Fifty-fifth General Assembly

Plenary

107^th Meeting (PM)

GENERAL ASSEMBLY APPROVES STATUTE OF UN STAFF COLLEGE, ENDORSES

BRUSSELS ACTION PROGRAMME FOR LEAST DEVELOPED COUNTRIES

Also Continues Consideration of Report

Fifty-fifth General Assembly                                GA/9890*

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL HOLDS PANEL DISCUSSION ON NATURAL DISASTER

PREPAREDNESS AND RESPONSE MEASURES

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL CONTINUES DISCUSSION ON SPECIAL

ECONOMIC, HUMANITARIAN AND DISASTER RELIEF ASSISTANCE

                                                            ECOSOC/5960

INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY HAS MORAL RESPONSIBILITY TO ENSURE THAT VULNERABLE

PEOPLE ARE PROTECTED, SAYS DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL

Introduces Secretary-General’s Report on Prevention of Armed Conflict

Following is the text of a statement today by Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette to the General Assembly on the Report of the Secretary-General on the Prevention of Armed Conflict:

DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL PAYS TRIBUTE ON DEATH OF HUMAYUN CHOUDHURY

OF BANGLADESH, FORMER PRESIDENT OF UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY

This is the text of a statement to the General Assembly today by Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette on the death of Humayun Rasheed Choudhury of Bangladesh, President of the forty-first session of the Assembly in 1986.