GOVERNMENTS CALL FOR RESPONSIBLE POST-TSUNAMI RECONSTRUCTION

OF FISHERIES, PLEDGE TO COMBAT ILLEGAL FISHING

Joint Statements Issued at Close of High-Level Meeting at FAO

(Reissued as received.)

COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS OPENS SIXTY-FIRST SESSION

 

High Commissioner for Human Rights Says Commission Is One

Embodiment of Collective Responsibility to Promote and Protect Human Rights

(Reissued as received.)

SECRETARY-GENERAL CALLS FOR BROAD MOBILIZATION OF RESOURCES

IN FIGHT AGAINST TB, IN MESSAGE ON WORLD DAY

 

Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message on World TB Day, observed 24 March:

Committee on Charter

 and United Nations Role

247^th Meeting (AM)

Opening current session, charter committee discusses questions related to imposition

Security Council

5140^th Meeting (PM)

SECURITY COUNCIL EXTENDS DEADLINE FOR NOMINATIONS

 

TO FORMER YUGOSLAVIA TRIBUNAL UNTIL 31 MARCH

 

The Security Council decided this afternoon to extend the deadline for nominations to the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia until 31 March, thereby endorsing a suggestion by Secretary-General Kofi Annan.

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES UNITED KINGDOM’S AFRICA COMMISSION REPORTAS IMPORTANT

 

CONTRIBUTION TO WORLD’S ‘FOREMOST DEVELOPMENT CHALLENGE’

 

Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s statement on the report of the Commission on Africa in New York, 11 March:

The United Nations welcomes this report of the Commission on Africa, established by the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

Special Committee on

 Decolonization

2^nd Meeting (AM)

DECOLONIZATION COMMITTEE WILL SEND MISSION TO BERMUDA 28-31 MARCH; 30 MAY - 4 JUNE

Also Decides Caribbean Regional Seminar Will be Held in Saint Vincent 17-19 May

Commission on the Status of Women

Forty-ninth Session

19^th & 20^th Meetings (AM & PM)

COMMISSION ON STATUS OF WOMEN ADOPTS 10 WIDE-RANGING RESOLUTIONS,

BUT FAILS TO CONCLUDE CURRENT SESSION

New Texts Concern Women’s Economic Advancement, Gender Mainstreaming,

Appointment of Special Rapporteur, Disaster Relief, Indigenous Women, Trafficking

Fifty-ninth General Assembly

Fourth Committee

26^th Meeting (AM)

FOURTH COMMITTEE APPROVES RECOMMENDATIONS ON RATIONALIZING FUTURE AGENDA

The Fourth Committee (Special Political and Decolonization) this morning approved, as amended, a non-paper containing recommendations to the General Assembly on the rationalization of its future agenda.

Round-Up of Session

COMMITTEE ON ELIMINATION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION CONCLUDES SIXTY-SIXTH SESSION

Issues Concluding Observations on Reports Presented by Lao People’s

Democratic Republic, France, Luxembourg, Australia, Ireland, Bahrain, Azerbaijan

(Reissued as received.)