Biographical Note                                           SG/A/772*

Security Council

4348^th & 4349^th Meetings* (AM & PM)

SECURITY COUNCIL, BRIEFED BY SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR DRC,

CALLS ON ALL PARTIES TO CO0PERATE FULLY WITH MONUC

ECOSOC ADOPTS DOZENS OF RESOLUTIONS AND DECISIONS

RECOMMENDED BY ITS SUBSIDIARY ORGANS

High Commissioners for Human Rights, Refugees Address Council

GENEVA, 24 July (UN Information Service) -- The Economic and Social Council this afternoon adopted dozens of resolutions and decisions recommended to it by its subsidiary bodies on social and human rights issues.

ECOSOC ADOPTS RESOLUTION ON SITUATION OF PALESTINIAN WOMEN;

TAKES UP REPORTS ON SOCIAL, HUMAN RIGHTS QUESTIONS

(Reissued as received.)

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES BONN AGREEMENTS ON EMISSION LIMITATION

The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for

Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

SECRETARY-GENERAL LAUDS MOVE TO STRENGTHEN BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION;

MEASURES UNDER REVIEW TO MONITOR IMPLEMENTATION, VERIFY COMPLIANCE

This is the text of a message from Secretary-General Kofi Annan (to be delivered on his behalf by Jayantha Dhanapala, Under-Secretary-General for Disarmament Affairs) to the meeting in Geneva on 25 July of the Ad Hoc Group of the States Parties to the Biological Weapons Convention:

GOVERNMENTS ADOPT BONN AGREEMENT ON KYOTO PROTOCOL RULES

(Reissued as received.)

BONN, 23 July (UNFCCC) -- The 180 members of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, now meeting in Bonn, have reached a broad political agreement on the operational rulebook for the 1997 Kyoto Protocol.  The meeting will now continue through Friday, 27 July, and start the process of translating this agreement into more detailed legal decisions.

STATEMENT BY KLAUS TOEPFER, UNEP EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR,

AT CONCLUSION OF UN CLIMATE TALKS IN BONN

BONN/NAIROBI, 23 July -- The United Nations senior environment official welcomed the compromise agreement reached here today at the Bonn climate talks.

ECOSOC DISCUSSES SITUATION IN ISRAELI-OCCUPIED TERRITORIES

Debates Implementation of Declaration

On Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples

(Reissued as received.)

ECOSOC DISCUSSES FOLLOW-UP TO WORLD CONFERENCES, SUMMITS,

REVITALIZATION OF WORK IN ECONOMIC, SOCIAL FIELDS