PRESS STATEMENT ON IRAQ BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT

The following press statement by Security Council President Martin Belinga-

Eboutou (Cameroon) was delivered on 15 October:

TO FEED WORLD’S POPULATION, FRESHWATER RESOURCES NEED TO BE BETTER

MANAGED, DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS

Following is the text of remarks by Deputy Secretary-General, Louise Fréchette, at the opening of the Exhibition by the Food and Agriculture Organization on World Food Day, in New York (16 October):

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Fifth Committee

9^th Meeting (AM)

FIFTH COMMITTEE CONSIDERS BOARD OF AUDITORS' REPORTS

Speakers Express Concern over Specific Deficiencies

In Audit Reports of Five Organizations, Costs of International Tribunals

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

First Committee

13^th Meeting (AM)

CONVENTIONAL ARMS, INCLUDING ILLICIT SMALL ARMS TRADE, ANTI-PERSONNEL MINES,

FOCUS OF DRAFT RESOLUTIONS INTRODUCED IN FIRST COMMITTEE

PRESS STATEMENT ON BURUNDI BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT

The following press statement by Security Council President Martin Belinga-Eboutou (Cameroon) was delivered on 15 October:

Council members once again condemn the Itaba massacre and encourage the Government of Burundi to continue its fact-finding efforts and to bring the perpetrators to justice, as well as to ensure respect for human rights in Burundi.

FIGHTING POVERTY, PROTECTING ENVIRONMENT ARE MUTUALLY

REINFORCING GOALS, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS

Following is the message of Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the Second Assembly of the Global Environment Facility, delivered by Klaus Töpfer, Executive Director, United Nations Environment Programme in Beijing today:

Secretary-General Kofi Annan, who left New York on Saturday, arrived on Sunday evening in Hangzhou, an attractive and prosperous lakeside city in a silk-producing region south of Shanghai that is said to have captured nearly a third of the world market in silk ties.

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Second Committee

11^th Meeting (PM)

URGENT NEED TO TRANSFER SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY TO DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

HIGHLIGHTED BY SPEAKERS IN SECOND COMMITTEE

Developed countries could and should fulfil commitments laid down in

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Third Committee

21^st Meeting (AM)

CONDITIONS OF PEACE, SECURITY ESSENTIAL FOR CHILDREN’S

PHYSICAL HEALTH, THIRD COMMITTEE TOLD

Committee Concludes Discussion of Children’s

Issues; Will Consider Indigenous People Tomorrow

PRESS STATEMENT ON DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT

The following press statement by Security Council President Martin Belinga-

Eboutou (Cameroon) was delivered on 15 October: