Fifty-seventh General Assembly

General Committee

5^th Meeting (AM)

GENERAL COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS INCLUSION OF ADDITIONAL ITEM –-

‘INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF RICE, 2004’ –- ON ASSEMBLY AGENDA

GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT CALLS FOR REAFFIRMED COMMITMENT TO EQUAL OPPORTUNITY

FOR DISABLED PERSONS, IN MESSAGE ON INTERNATIONAL DAY

Following is the message of Jan Kavan (Czech Republic), President of the fifty-seventh session of the General Assembly, on the International Day of Disabled Persons, 3 December:

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES CEASEFIRE AGREEMENT IN BURUNDI

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

$573 MILLION IN FUNDING AGREED FOR CUTTING DEVELOPING COUNTRY CFCs BY 50 PER CENT

(Delayed for technical reasons.)

ROME, 29 November (UNEP) -- Negotiators from some 140 governments have adopted a $573 million funding package to halve the consumption and production in developing countries of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) -- the leading destroyer of the stratospheric ozone layer -- by the year 2005 (relative to a baseline of average 1995-1997 levels).

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Plenary

66^th Meeting (AM)

GENERAL ASSEMBLY ADOPTS SIX RESOLUTIONS AS IT CONCLUDES DEBATE

ON MIDDLE EAST SITUATION AND QUESTION OF PALESTINE

Speakers Call for Return to Peace

Negotiations and Israeli Withdrawal from Syrian Golan

‘WE CANNOT REMAIN INDIFFERENT’ ABOUT INTERFACE BETWEEN ENERGY, CLIMATE CHANGE,

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN LECTURE SERIES INTRODUCTORY REMARKS

Following are Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s remarks introducing Professor Rajendra Pachauri and Professor Nebojsa Nakiconovic in the Secretary-General’s lecture series in New York on 3 December:

SECRETARY-GENERAL, NOTING PROGRESS IN PUBLIC HEALTH DEVELOPMENTS, SAYS THERE

REMAINS 'ENORMOUS BACKLOG OF HEALTH-RELATED DESPAIR' IN THE AMERICAS

Centenary Address to Pan American Health Organization in Washington, D.C.

This is the text of an address by Secretary-General Kofi Annan in

Secretary-General Kofi Annan arrived in Washington, D.C., on Sunday, 1 December, where the following day he would participate in discussion with scholars of the Woodrow Wilson Center.

UN POPULATION REPORT SAYS GOOD REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH

FOR WOMEN ESSENTIAL TO ENDING POVERTY

2002 Survey to Be Launched Next Week at Ceremonies

In London, New York, Washington and Other Cities around World

Security Council

4652^nd Meeting (PM)

WEATHER FACTORS, HEALTH ISSUES, CIVIL STRIFE, ECONOMIC POLICIES

WORSEN AFRICA’S FOOD CRISIS, SECURITY COUNCIL IS TOLD

40 Million People at Risk of Starvation, Says Head of World Food Programme;