CITES TRADE CONTROLS TO TAKE EFFECT FOR MAHOGANY

     GENEVA, 11 November (UN Environment Programme) -- Internationally agreed trade regulations for big-leaf mahogany will enter into force on 15 November.  This tropical timber generates over $100 million a year in export sales, making it one of the world's most valuable forest products.

Fifty-eighth General Assembly

Third Committee

39^th & 40^th Meetings (AM & PM)

THIRD COMMITTEE CONSIDERS REPORTS ON INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS,

TORTURE, HUMAN RIGHTS TO FOOD, FREEDOM OF RELIGION

Draft Resolutions Introduced on Office

Of UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Mercenaries

Fifty-eighth General Assembly

Fourth Committee

21^st Meeting (AM)

FOURTH COMMITTEE POSTPONES ACTION ON FINAL ITEMS OF SESSION

More Time Said to Be Needed for ‘Mediation’ on Draft

Texts on UNRWA, Israeli Practices in Occupied Territories

Committee on the Inalienable Rights

of the Palestinian People

275^th Meeting (AM)

PALESTINIAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE SEEKS END TO ISRAELI SETTLEMENT ACTIVITIES,

REVERSAL OF BUILDING OF SEPARATION WALL

Action by General Assembly Called for; Other Texts Urge UN

To Continue Information, Related Efforts to Mobilize International Support

SECRETARY-GENERAL PRAISES TIES LINKING UNITED NATIONS, ECUADORIAN CAPITAL

AS HE PREPARES TO INAUGURATE UN HOUSE IN QUITO

Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s remarks at a ceremony hosted by the Municipality of Quito yesterday, 10 November:

Fifty-eighth General Assembly

Second Committee

32^nd & 33^rd Meeting (AM & PM)

UNEQUAL BENEFITS OF GLOBALIZATION, NEED TO IMPLEMENT DEVELOPMENT

FINANCING COMMITMENTS FOCUS OF SECOND COMMITTEE DEBATE

Security Council

4856^th Meeting (AM)

SECURITY COUNCIL URGES SOMALI LEADERS TO REACH AGREEMENT ON VIABLE GOVERNMENT

THROUGH PLANNED NOVEMBER MEETING IN KENYA

The Security Council this morning urged all Somali leaders to reach agreement on a viable government and a durable solution to the conflict in that country, through a “Leaders Meeting” planned for Kenya in November 2003.

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES RELEASE OF ADDITIONAL

300 WAR PRISONERS BY FRENTE POLISARIO

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

Secretary-General Kofi Annan departed New York for Chile in the evening of Tuesday, 4 November, and arrived the following morning in Santiago, on the first leg of a four-nation visit to Latin America.

Fifty-eighth General Assembly

Second Committee

Panel Discussion on “Globalization”

IN SECOND COMMITTEE PANEL DISCUSSION, TOP ECONOMIST CALLS FOR MORE SENSIBLE,

MODEST, HUMANE APPROACH TO GLOBALIZATION