Security Council

4691^st Meeting (PM)

SECURITY COUNCIL CONDEMNS PLUNDER OF DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO’S RESOURCES,

REQUESTS NEW SIX-MONTH MANDATE FOR INVESTIGATIVE PANEL

Unanimously Adopts Resolution 1457 (2003);

PRESS STATEMENT ON WESTERN SAHARA BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT

Following is today’s statement to the press on Western Sahara by Security Council President Jean-Marc de La Sablière (France):

Council members welcomed the Secretary-General’s report of 16 January 2003 concerning Western Sahara and agreed with his observation that the responsibility for a solution rested solely with the parties. 

SECURITY COUNCIL COMMITTEE ADDS NAMES OF TWO INDIVIDUALS TO LIST

The Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1267 (1999) on 22 January 2003 added the following individuals to its consolidated list (Al Qaeda section):

Committee on NGOS

47^th & 48^th Meetings (AM & PM)

NGO COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS FIVE ORGANIZATIONS FOR SPECIAL CONSULTATIVE STATUS,

THREE FOR ROSTER STATUS WITH ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL

Decides against Recommending Three Organizations

For Consultative Status, Leaves Pending Applications of Five Others

Committee on Elimination of

Discrimination against Women

ANTI-DISCRIMINATION COMMITTEE PRAISES CANADA FOR ADVANCING WOMEN’S RIGHTS,

BUT EXPRESSES CONCERN OVER NUMBER OF WOMEN IN POVERTY

Considers Country’s Fifth Periodic Report on Convention Compliance

SWITCH TO UNLEADED FUEL ‘IN SIGHT’ FOR AFRICA, ACCORDING TO NEW

UN ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMME REPORT

NAIROBI, 22 January (UNEP) -- An international effort to phase out lead, the health-hazardous heavy metal, from petrol is accelerating as increasing numbers of African countries switch to unleaded fuel.

SECRETARY-GENERAL DEEPLY SADDENED BY LOSS OF LIFE FOLLOWING MEXICAN EARTHQUAKE;

SAYS UNITED NATIONS STANDS READY TO ASSIST

The following statement was issued today by the spokesman for

Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

WESTERN ASIA PREPARATORY CONFERENCE FOR INFORMATION SOCIETY WORLD SUMMIT

TO BE HELD IN BEIRUT 4-6 FEBRUARY

Committee on Elimination of

Discrimination against Women

LUXEMBOURG COMMENDED FOR COMMITMENT TO PROMOTING GENDER EQUALITY, AS WOMEN’S

ANTI-DISCRIMINATION COMMITTEE CONSIDERS COUNTRY’S FOURTH REPORT

But experts Regret Delays in Process

To Remove Country’s Reservation to Convention

Committee on NGOS

45^th & 46^th Meetings (AM & PM)

NGO COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS EIGHT ORGANIZATIONS FOR SPECIAL CONSULTATIVE STATUS

WITH ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL