Press Release

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Commission on Status of Women

Forty-seventh Session

12^th Meeting* (PM)

WOMEN’S COMMISSION APPROVES TEXTS ON ASSESSING UN GENDER POLICIES,

FUTURE WORK OF RESEARCH AND TRAINING INSTITUTE FOR WOMEN

Secretary-General Kofi Annan departed New York on Saturday, 8 March, and arrived in the Netherlands the following morning.

HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE TO HOLD SEVENTY-SEVENTH SESSION

IN GENEVA FROM 17 MARCH TO 4 APRIL 2003

Experts to Examine Reports of Estonia, Luxembourg and Mali

(Reissued as received.)

DEPUTY-SECRETARY-GENERAL PRAISES NEW YORK CITY’S MAYOR FOR ‘NEW ERA’

IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN UN AND ‘THIS GREAT WORLD CAPITAL’

Following are the remarks of Deputy-Secretary-General Louise Fréchette to the reception “To Celebrate the United Nations in New York”, hosted by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg on 12 March:

It is a great pleasure to be here tonight.

SECRETARY-GENERAL SHOCKED, SADDENED AT ASSASSINATION OF

SERBIAN PRIME MINISTER DJINDJIC

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

FIFTY-NINTH SESSION OF COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS GENEVA,

17 MARCH TO 25 APRIL 2003

Information for Media Coverage of the Session

GENEVA, 12 March (UN Information Service) -- The Commission on Human Rights will hold its fifty-ninth session from Monday, 17 March to Friday,

Security Council

4717^th Meeting (Resumed) (PM)

SECURITY COUNCIL HEARS FROM 53 SPEAKERS IN TWO DAYS ON IRAQ’S DISARMAMENT;

SOME STRESS IRAQ HAS NOT COOPERATED, MOST SAY INSPECTORS NEED MORE TIME

PRESS STATEMENT BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT

ON ASSASSINATION OF SERBIA’S PRIME MINISTER

Following is the press statement on the assassination of the Serbian Prime Minister, delivered today by Security Council President Mamady Traoré (Guinea):

PROGRESS IN CONSOLIDATING AFRICA’S PEACE SETS STAGE FOR HARD WORK AHEAD,

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN MESSAGE TO TOKYO CONFERENCE

Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message to the “In Search of the Consolidation of Peace in Africa” conference delivered by his Special Adviser on Africa, Ibrahim Gambari, in Tokyo on 12 March: