COMMITTEE NEGOTIATING TREATY ON PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES

DISCUSSES INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS, FREEDOMS

Meeting for its fifth session, the General Assembly Ad Hoc Committee on a convention on the rights of persons with disabilities concluded its first week by discussing draft articles addressing equal recognition before the law, liberty and security of the person and other individual rights.

FIRSTBIODIVERSITYPARK OF ITS KIND LAUNCHED IN RAWALPINDI

Pioneering Public-Private Partnership Gives Prior Access to Biodiversity

(Reissued as received.)

SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES AFRICAN LEADERS TO HELP MAKE 2005 YEAR OF RENEWAL FOR UN,

HOPE FOR AFRICA, IN ADDRESS TO ABUJASUMMIT

Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s address to the Fourth African Union Summit, in Abuja, Nigeria, 30 January:

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2004 Round-up

TERRORISM, IRAQ, MIDDLE EAST, SUDAN AMONG CRITICAL ISSUES

BEFORE SECURITY COUNCIL IN 2004

Press Statement by Security Council President on Iraq elections

Following is the text of today’s statement to the press by Security Council President César Mayoral (Argentina):

PRESIDENT OF UNITED NATIONS SECURITY COUNCIL AND CHAIRMAN

 

OF MILITARY STAFF COMMITTEE IN FEBRUARY

 

In accordance with the principle of alphabetical rotation, the following are the President of the United Nations Security Council and the Chairman of the Military Staff Committee for February:

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SECRETARY-GENERAL PRAISES COURAGE OF IRAQI PEOPLE ON ELECTION,

SAYS SUCCESS AUGURS WELL FOR TRANSITION

Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s statement on the Iraqi elections, issued in Abuja, Nigeria, on 30 January:

ETHIOPIA’S CROP PRODUCTION UP — FOOD AID STILL NEEDED

NEW YORK, 31 January (OCHA) -- Ethiopia’s crop production is expected to increase by 24 per cent compared to last year’s estimates.  This was a key finding of the recent crop and food supply assessment mission undertaken jointly by the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP), which pegged cereal and pulse production at 14.27 million tonnes.

IN ADDRESS TO CANADIAN CLUB, DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL STRESSES NEED

FOR ‘REAL PROGRESS’ ON COLLECTIVE SECURITY, DEVELOPMENT, UN REFORM

Following is the text of the address delivered today by Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette to the Canadian Club in Toronto:

SECRETARY-GENERAL’S MESSAGE TO PHUKET MEETING OFFERS CLOSE UN PARTNERSHIP

IN EFFORT TO CREATE TSUNAMI EARLY WARNING SYSTEM