Committee Takes up Third Periodic Report of Luxembourg
Following is the statement of Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the 19 January Security Council meeting on the situation in Burundi:
Adopts Resolution 1286 (2000) Unanimously; Secretary-General Warns Council of Humanitarian Catastrophe
The Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations this afternoon recommended that one organization be granted consultative status with the Economic and Social Council and that another be reclassified to a different status category, as it continued its two-week session.
This morning the Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations, a 19-member standing body of the Economic and Social Council, continued considering requests by non-governmental organizations for reclassification of their consultative status with the Council.
NEW YORK, 19 January (OCHA) -- The Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) issued the following statement on humanitarian assistance to forcibly relocated communities in Burundi:
Following is the text of Deputy Secretary-General Louise Frechettes address to the United Nations University Conference, On the Threshold: The United Nations and Global Governance in the New Millenium, which was delivered today in Tokyo:
NEW YORK, 19 January (Department of Economic and Social Affairs) -- The twentieth session of the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names is taking place at United Nations Headquarters in New York from 17 to 28 January with the participation of some 150 experts representing 22 linguistic/geographical divisions.
Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annans message to the Conference on Disarmament, delivered on his behalf by the Director General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, Vladimir Petrovsky, on 18 January:
The following statement was issued today by Secretary-General Kofi Annan:
