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.

STRATEGIES NEEDED TO OFFER YOUNG CHANCE AT DECENT, PRODUCTIVE WORK

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL ON INTERNATIONAL YOUTH DAY

Following is Secretary-GeneralKofi Annan’s message on International Youth Day, observed 12 August:

SECRETARY-GENERAL HORRIFIED BY JAKARTA BOMB ATTACK; CONDEMNS

‘DESPICABLE’ ACT IN STRONGEST POSSIBLE TERMS

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

The Secretary-General is horrified at the bomb explosion today at the Marriott Hotel in Jakarta, reportedly killing at least 10 people and injuring many more.  He condemns in the strongest possible terms this apparent act of terrorism.

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.

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES ESTABLISHMENT, SWIFT DEPLOYMENT

OF LIBERIA MULTINATIONAL FORCE

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL CONDEMNS ‘BRUTAL MURDER’ OF UN POLICE OFFICER IN KOSOVO

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

The Secretary-General is shocked and outraged at the killing of a United Nations police officer in an attack on a police vehicle in the northern part of Kosovo.

ACTING HUMAN RIGHTS CHIEF CONDEMNS SUICIDE BOMBING

OF RUSSIAN MILITARY HOSPITAL

The following statement was issued today by the spokesman for the Acting United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights:

Security Council

4804^th Meeting (PM)

SECURITY COUNCIL AUTHORIZES WEST AFRICAN, FRENCH FORCES

IN CÔTE D’IVOIRE FOR SIX MORE MONTHS

COMMITTEE ON ELIMINATION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION OPENS

SIXTY-THIRD SESSION AT THE PALAIS DES NATIONS

Hears Address by Acting High Commissioner for Human Rights

(Reissued as received.)