DECEMBER TSUNAMI PROVOKES HIGH JUMP IN DISASTER DEATH FIGURES

(Received from a UN Information Officer.)

UNEP GOVERNING COUNCIL/GLOBAL MINISTERIAL ENVIRONMENT FORUM

 

TO MEET, 21 - 25 FEBRUARY

Climate-Friendly Civil Society Conference Gives Delegates Guilt-Free Travel

(Reissued as received.)

OUTER SPACE SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL SUBCOMMITTEE TO HOLD 42ND SESSION IN VIENNA

Space-System-Based Disaster Management Key Item on Agenda

(Reissued as received.)

UN WELCOMES EGYPT’S DECISION TO WAiVE SURCHARGE FOR SHIPS

DESTINED FOR UN PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS

 

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

The United Nations welcomes Egypt’s recent decision to waive a new 25 per cent surcharge for all ships carrying military equipment through the Suez Canal destined for United Nations peacekeeping operations.

Special Committee on

Decolonization

1^st Meeting (AM)

WAYS MUST BE EXPLORED TO ACCELERATE DECOLONIZATION PROCESS, SPECIAL COMMITTEE TOLD

Committee Elects Officers for 2005, Approves Organization of Work

Security Council

5127^th Meeting (AM & PM)

SECURITY COUNCIL CALLS ON ARMS-EXPORTING COUNTRIES TO EXERCISE ‘HIGHEST DEGREE

OF RESPONSIBILITY’ IN SMALL ARMS TRANSACTIONS

 

SECURITY COUNCIL COMMITTEE ADDS ONE INDIVIDUAL

 

TO AL-QAIDA SECTION OF ITS CONSOLIDATED LIST

 

The Al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Committee on 17 February 2005 approved the addition of one individual to its consolidated list (Al-Qaida section).

23. *Name: 1: MUHSIN 2: AL-FADHLI 3: na 4: na

Kyoto Protocol Event

PARTICIPANTS IN SPECIAL EVENT MARKING ENTRY INTO FORCE OF KYOTO PROTOCOL

 

STRESS NEED FOR ACTION TO COUNTER GLOBAL WARMING

 

Sharing of Clean-Energy Technology,

Emissions Trading Schemes among Issues Discussed

Background Release

COMMITTEE ON ELIMINATION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION

 

TO MEET IN GENEVA FROM 21 FEBRUARY TO 11 MARCH

 

Committee to Consider Reports of Lao People’s Democratic Republic,

France, Luxembourg, Nigeria, Australia, Ireland, Bahrain and Azerbaijan

(Reissued as received.)

Commission for Social Development

Forty-third Session

13^th Meeting (PM)

Social development commission hears introduction of drafts

 

on disability, African social objectives

 

The Commission for Social Development held a brief meeting this afternoon to hear the introduction of several draft texts which it expects to approve tomorrow at the close of its annual substantive session.