First Meeting of States Parties

to Convention on Migrant Workers

1^st Meeting (AM)

STATES PARTIES TO CONVENTION PROTECTING MIGRANT WORKERS

HOLD FIRST MEETING AT HEADQUARTERS

Elect 10-Member Main Committee

GLOBAL FORUM ADOPTS DECLARATION, ACTION PROGRAMME

ON INDIGENOUS PEOPLES AND INFORMATION SOCIETY

Documents to Be Submitted to World Summit on Information Society

(Received from a UN Information Officer.)

PRESS STATEMENT BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT ON DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO

Following is today’s statement to the press by Security Council President Stefan Tafrov (Bulgaria):

The members of the Security Council heard a statement by the Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations on the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Summit on Staff Security

AM Meeting

THEME OF SIXTH SUMMIT ON STAFF SECURITY IS ‘AFTER BAGHDAD:

UN WORKERS UNDER THE GUN’

Speakers Call for Ratification of Convention on Protection of UN Staff,

Appropriate Investment in Security, Staff Involvement in Security Processes,

‘GROUP OF 77’ OPENS ITS DOORS TO SOUTH-SOUTH-NORTH COOPERATION

Aims to Launch Partnerships, Concrete Initiatives at Marrakesh Conference

World Electronic Media Forum

Round Table (PM)

WEMF:  NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN HANDS OF ACTORS IN INFORMATION

AGE HAVE REPLACED TRADITIONAL MEDIA

Speakers Note That New Ways of Acquiring

Information Have Important Political Implications

(Reissued as received.)

World Summit on the Information Society

2^nd Plenary Meeting (AM)

WSIS:  INFORMATION, COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES ARE NOT END IN THEMSELVES,

BUT WAY TO FIGHT POVERTY

Many Speakers Support Creation of Digital Solidarity Fund

(Reissued as received.)

MOMENTUM BUILDS FOR ANTI-CORRUPTION CONVENTION AT MERIDA SIGNING CONFERENCE

(Reissued as received.)

MERIDA (Mexico), 11 December -- A first-day tally of 45 signatures by national representatives is bolstering confidence at a United Nations conference in Merida, Mexico, that sufficient ratifications for entry into force will follow soon.

HUMANITARIAN ENVOY NOTES PROGRESS IN COTE D’IVOIRE

ABIDJAN, 10 December (UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs) -- “It is important that the parties to the conflict in Côte d’Ivoire now move forward and work together in order for the whole country to return to normality”, said Carolyn McAskie, the Humanitarian Envoy of the Secretary-General for the crisis in Côte d’Ivoire. 

FAO CONFERENCE ENDS 32ND SESSION; TERM LIMITS SET FOR FUTURE DIRECTORS-GENERAL

Split Contributions between US Dollars

And Euros approved; $749 Million Biennial Budget Passed