Press Release

UNEP PROJECT TO REVERSE ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION TRENDS

IN SOUTH CHINA SEA AND GULF OF THAILAND

(Reissued as received.)

BANGKOK, 28 March 2001 (UNEP) -- To reverse environmental degradation in the South China Sea and Gulf of Thailand, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) will implement a $32 million project funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and the Governments of Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand and Viet Nam.

                                                      SOC/NAR/824

INTERNATIONAL GROUP OF EXPERTS MEETS AT UNITED NATIONS

TO ADVISE UNIVERSITY FOR PEACE

SECRETARY-GENERAL GRAVELY CONCERNED AT ESCALATION OF VIOLENCE IN ISRAEL

AND PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES; CALLS FOR URGENT RESUMPTION OF DIALOGUE

The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

Human Rights Committee                                HR/CT/604

Seventy-first Session                                 29 March 2001

1914^th and 1915^th Meetings (AM & PM)

Resumed Fifty-fifth General Assembly

Fifth Committee

54^th Meeting (AM)

MEMBER STATES CRITICAL OF DELAY IN PROMISED PAYMENTS

FROM UNITED STATES, IN FIFTH COMMITTEE

Preparatory Committee for the

United Nations Conference on

 the Illicit Trade in Small Arms

 and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects

37^th Meeting (PM)

SMALL ARMS PREPARATORY COMMITTEE DECIDES THAT JULY CONFERENCE

SHOULD BE HELD AT MINISTERIAL LEVEL

Secretary-General Kofi Annan departed New York on Saturday, 24 March, arriving in Amman, Jordan, on Sunday night, to attend the Summit Meeting of the League of Arab States, which was due to begin on Tuesday, 27 March.

BROADER SOCIAL ROLES FOR BUSINESS WILL COMPLEMENT SEARCH FOR PROFIT,

SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS SWISS BUSINESS COMMUNITY

Following is the text of an address made by Secretary-General Kofi Annan today in Zurich, Switzerland, to the Swiss business community:

                                                      Note No. 5659