UN DRUG REPORT SEES HOPE ON HORIZON

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VIENNA, 22 January (UN Information Service) -- The global drug problem -- often characterized as hopeless -- is neither unstoppable nor irreversible, according to the United Nations new World Drug Report.

SECRETARY-GENERAL PRAISES ‘REMARKABLE PARTNERSHIP’ BETWEEN UN, JAPAN

AT OPENING OF UN HOUSE IN TOKYO

Following are the remarks of Secretary-General Kofi Annan at the opening of UN House in Tokyo on 24 January:

Committee on NGOs                                     NGO/398

Committee on NGOs

782^nd Meeting (AM)

COMMITTEE ON NGOS DISCUSSES PROCEDURES FOR PREVIOUSLY ACCREDITED

ORGANIZATIONS REQUESTING EXPANSION IN PARTICIPATION STATUS

CONFERENCE ON DISARMAMENT OPENS 2001 SESSION

Secretary-General Urges Conference

To Take Firm Action to Reach Consensus on Work Programme

(Reissued as received.)

Committee on the Elimination of

Discrimination against Women

497^th Meeting (PM)

Committee on the Elimination of

Discrimination against Women

496^th Meeting (AM)

CIVIL WAR, PERSISTENCE OF STEREOTYPES HINDER IMPLEMENTATION

OF WOMEN’S CONVENTION IN BURUNDI, COMMITTEE TOLD

The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women this morning heard replies of the Government of Burundi on its initial report (document CEDAW/C/BDI/1), which was first introduced last week.

Secretary-General Kofi Annan arrived in China on Saturday, 20 January.

The Secretary-General, accompanied by Mrs. Annan, departed New York on Monday evening, 15 January.

SECRETARY-GENERAL CALLS FOR FIRM AND CONCERTED ACTION AT CONFERENCE

ON DISARMAMENT TO OVERCOME LAST SESSION’S STALEMATE

Following is the text of a message from Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva.  The message was delivered at the Conference, opening today, on the Secretary-General’s behalf, by Vladimir Petrovsky, Director-General of the United Nations in Geneva: