ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY DIRECTOR-GENERAL CALLS ON DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE’S

REPUBLIC OF KOREA TO REVERSE DECISION ON TREATY WITHDRAWAL

PRESS STATEMENT BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT ON SIERRA LEONE

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF KOREA TO RECONSIDER

WITHDRAWAL FROM NUCLEAR NON-PROLIFERATION TREATY

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

PRESS STATEMENT ON IRAQ BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT

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

Background Release

COMMITTEE ON RIGHTS OF CHILD TO HOLD THIRTY-SECOND SESSION

IN GENEVA, 13 - 31 JANUARY

Reports from Estonia, Republic of Korea, Italy, Romania,

Solomon Islands, Viet Nam, Czech Republic, Haiti and Iceland to Be Reviewed

(Reissued as received.)

Background Release

WOMEN’S ANTI‑DISCRIMINATION COMMITTEE WILL HEAR REPORTS OF EIGHT COUNTRIES,

WHEN IT MEETS AT HEADQUARTERS, 13-31 JANUARY

The twenty-eighth session of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women will take place at United Nations Headquarters in New York from 13 to 31 January 2003.

UNITED NATIONS ISSUES ‘WORLD ECONOMIC SITUATION AND PROSPECTS 2003’,

SAYS UNCERTAINTIES, RISKS IMPERIL GLOBAL ECONOMIC REBOUND

Committee on NGOs

27^th & 28^th Meetings (AM & PM)

NGO COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS NINE ORGANIZATIONS FOR CONSULTATIVE STATUS

WITH ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL

CHAIRPERSONS AND VICE-CHAIRPERSONS OF SECURITY COUNCIL

SANCTIONS COMMITTEES ELECTED FOR 2003

NEW YORK, 9 January (Department of Political Affairs) -– Pursuant to paragraph 4 (b) of the note by the President of the Security Council dated

Committee on NGOs

25^th & 26^th Meetings (AM & PM)

COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS 24 ORGANIZATIONS FOR SPECIAL CONSULTATIVE

STATUS WITH ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL

Opening its resumed 2002 session, the Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) recommended 24 national and international organizations for special consultative status with the Economic and Social Council in two meetings today.