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SC/6823

SECURITY COUNCIL COMMITTEE CONCERNING SOMALIA APPEALS FOR ASSISTANCE IN ENFORCING ARMS EMBARGO

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SC/6822

SECURITY COUNCIL COMMITTEE CONCERNING SIERRA LEONE DISCUSSES BREACH OF SANCTIONS REGIME

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SC/6821

SECURITY COUNCIL STRESSES NEED FOR DISARMAMENT, DEMOBILIZATION AND REINTEGRATION OF EX-COMBATANTS IN SIERRA LEONE

Council Holds Open Briefing on Situation in Sierra Leone

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L/2948

PREPARATORY COMMISSION FOR INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT BEGINS FOURTH SESSION

The Preparatory Commission for the International Criminal Court this morning began its fourth session of negotiations on the elaboration of the rules and guidelines necessary to the eventual functioning of the Court.

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HR/CT/546

HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE CONTINUES CONSIDERATION OF REPUBLIC OF CONGO REPORT

The Government of the Republic of the Congo was deeply concerned with the whole issue of human rights, especially since much had been written about the human rights situation in the country in the past few years, its Permanent Representative, Basile Ikouebe, told expert members of the Human Rights Committee this afternoon.

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HR/CT/545

HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE OPENS SESSION, ADOPTS AGENDA, WORK PROGRAMME

The Human Rights Committee this morning adopted its agenda and programme of work, as orally revised, as it began its sixty-eighth session. The Committee will consider reports submitted by the Governments of the Republic of the Congo, United Kingdom, Venezuela, Mongolia and Guyana on their compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

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GA/AB/3357

FIFTH COMMITTEE OPENS FIRST PART OF RESUMED FIFTY-FOURTH SESSION

The Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) opened the first part of its resumed fifty-fourth session this morning by adopting its programme of work as orally amended, and hearing calls for the timely submission of reports.

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DC/2688

AD HOC GROUP OF STATES PARTIES TO BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION TO HOLD NINETEENTH SESSION 13-31 MARCH

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WOM/1193

INSTRAW PUBLICATION, ‘AGEING IN A GENDERED WORLD: WOMEN’S ISSUES AND IDENTITIES’, TO BE LAUNCHED AT HEADQUARTERS ON 14 MARCH

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SG/A/725
PI/1229

SECRETARY-GENERAL APPOINTS ANGELICA HUNT AS DIRECTOR OF UNITED NATIONS INFORMATION CENTRE IN BUENOS AIRES

Secretary-General Kofi Annan has appointed Angélica Hunt as the Director of the United Nations Information Centre in Buenos Aires, Argentina, which also covers Uruguay. She is expected to take up her duties on 13 March.