Security Council

4805^th Meeting (AM)

BOUGAINVILLE PEACE PROCESS CAN PROCEED WITH REMAINING STEPS, AS SECOND STAGE

OF WEAPONS COLLECTION COMPLETED, SECURITY COUNCIL TOLD

SEABED ASSEMBLY APPROVES FINANCE COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS,

INCLUDING FUNDS FOR DEVELOPING-COUNTRY PARTICIPATION

(Reissued as received.)

SEABED COUNCIL NOTES LEGAL AND TECHNICAL COMMISSION REPORT ON RULES

FOR SULPHIDES AND CRUSTS, BIODIVERSITY ISSUES

(Reissued as received.)

KINGSTON, 4 August -- Commencing this morning the substantive work of its current session in Kingston, the Council of the International Seabed Authority discussed and took note of the report of its Legal and Technical Commission.

COUNCIL EXAMINES FINANCE COMMITTEE REPORT, INCLUDING PLAN TO CONTINUE

FUND FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRY PARTICIPATION

(Reissued as received.)

Committee on the Inalienable Rights

of the Palestinian People

273^rd Meeting (AM)                                               

UNITED NATIONS CANNOT CONDONE PERSECUTION, DISCRIMINATION ‘ON ANY GROUNDS’, SAYS

SECRETARY-GENERAL, FOLLOWING HEADQUARTERS EVENT ON RIGHTS OF LESBIANS, GAYS

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

DOMENICO DA EMPOLI OF ITALY, PRESIDENT OF SEABED COUNCIL FOR 2003

(Reissued as received.)

KINGSTON, 4 August -- Domenico da Empoli (Italy), who was elected today as President of the Council of the International Seabed Authority at its ninth session (2003) in Kingston, is professor of public finance and public accounting at the University of Rome.

SECRETARY-GENERAL COMMENDS REGIONAL RESPONSE TO SOLOMON ISLANDS CRISIS

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

COUNCIL EXAMINES FINANCE COMMITTEE REPORT, INCLUDING PLAN TO CONTINUE

FUND FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRY PARTICIPATION

CORRECTION

PROTOCOL TO CONTROL PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS TO ENTER INTO FORCE

GENEVA, 5 August (ECE) -- France has become the sixteenth country to ratify the Protocol on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs).  The Protocol will, consequently, enter into force on 23 October 2003.