Background Release

REPORTS FROM EIGHT COUNTRIES TO BE REVIEWED AT THREE-WEEK SESSION

OF UN COMMITTEE ON ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN

New York Meeting Will Review Implementation of Convention

By Andorra, Guinea, Singapore, Guyana, Netherlands, Viet Nam, Sweden, Nicaragua

SECRETARY-GENERAL PAYS TRIBUTE TO 2001 POPULATION AWARD WINNERS

Following is the text of remarks by Secretary-General Kofi Annan at the

2001 United Nations Population Award ceremony:

I am delighted to join you in paying tribute to the winners of the United Nations Population Award for the year 2001.

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES TRANSFER OF FORMER PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC

TO INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL TRIBUNAL

Following is the statement by Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the decision to transfer former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic to The Hague:

SECRETARY-GENERAL, AT STAFF SECURITY SUMMIT, URGES STATES TO RATIFY

TREATY ON SAFETY OF UNITED NATIONS AND ASSOCIATED PERSONNEL

Statement Deplores Deaths Since 1992 of Hundreds of Peacekeepers

And 200 Civilians; Says Violence Must Not Be Allowed to Deter ‘Noble Calling’

This is the text of a statement today by Secretary-General Kofi Annan at a summit meeting at Headquarters on the Security of International Staff:

Security Council

Resumed 4336^th Meeting (PM)

IRAQ CLAIMS FULL COMPLIANCE WITH SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTIONS;

FOREIGN AFFAIRS MINISTER SAYS ALL OBLIGATIONS MET

Other Speakers, Challenging Assertion, Say Suffering

Of Iraqi People, Though Regrettable, Is Fault of Government

Security Council

4340^th Meeting (AM)

COUNCIL, BRIEFED BY SECRETARY-GENERAL’S SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE IN SIERRA LEONE,

CONSIDERS RECENT SIGNS OF PROGRESS IN PEACE PROCESS

The peace process in Sierra Leone had witnessed remarkable changes in magnitude and patterns of development in recent months, the Security Council was told this morning as it met to consider the situation in the West African State.

Security Council

4339^th Meeting (AM)*

EXAMINING IMPLICATIONS OF HIV/AIDS FOR UN PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS,

COUNCIL WARNS OF POTENTIAL RISK TO STABILITY, SECURITY

In Presidential Statement S/PRST/16, Council President

Stresses Pandemic’s Potentially Damaging Impact on Peacekeepers’ Health

COURT FINDS UNITED STATES IN BREACH OF CONSULAR OBLIGATIONS

TO GERMANY IN LAGRAND CASE

For First Time in Its History, Court Finds

That Orders Indicating Provisional Measures Are Legally Binding

(Reissued as received.)

GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT CALLS ON MEMBER STATES TO IMPLEMENT

INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS ON PROTECTION OF UN PERSONNEL

Staff Meeting on Security is Told Message Must Be Sent

That Humanitarian Workers Cannot Be Attacked With Impunity

This is the text of a statement today by the President of the General Assembly, Harri Holkeri (Finland), at a summit meeting at Headquarters on the security of international staff:

Special Committee on

Decolonization

7^th Meeting (AM)

SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON DECOLONIZATION CALLS ON NEW ZEALAND AND UN AGENCIES

TO CONTINUE ASSISTANCE TO TOKELAU

Also Adopts Resolution on Other Non-Self-Governing Territories