2002 UN Pledging Conference

for World Food Programme

AM Meeting

SIX STATES, HOLY SEE PLEDGE CONTRIBUTIONS TO WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME

Six Member States and an observer mission pledged contributions this morning at the annual United Nations/Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Pledging Conference for the World Food Programme (WFP).

UNITED STATES SIGNS INTERNATIONAL TREATY ON PLANT GENETIC RESOURCES;

EASING WORLD HUNGER IS OBJECTIVE

ROME, 6 November (FAO) -- The United States has added its signature to an International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources which aims to ensure better use of genetic diversity to meet the challenge of eradicating world hunger, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said today.

CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION’S PROPOSED REFORMS INNOVATIVE, FORWARD

LOOKING SAYS DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL TO FIFTH COMMITTEE

Following are the remarks of Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette to the Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) of the General Assembly in New York on 6 November:

Security Council

4643^rd Meeting (PM)

SECURITY COUNCIL FOCUSES ON KOSOVO MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS, SECURITY OF MINORITIES AFTER UNDER-SECRETARY-GENERAL'S BRIEFING

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Fifth Committee

22^nd Meeting (AM)

ELIMINATION OF WASTE, ENHANCEMENT OF PRODUCTIVITY COULD SAVE UNITED NATIONS

$56 MILLION, SAYS OFFICE OF INTERNAL OVERSIGHT SERVICES

WE CANNOT BE INDIFFERENT TO GENETICALLY MODIFIED CROPS,

SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS IN INTRODUCING LECTURE SPEAKERS

Following are Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s remarks today on introducing Professor Daphne Preuss and Professor Jennifer Thomson as speakers in the Secretary-General’s lecture series:

I am delighted to welcome you to the second lecture in this series.  It promises to be a highly exciting one.

WARFARE DELIBERATELY AIMED AT ENVIRONMENT MUST BE VIGOROUSLY PREVENTED,

CONDEMNED, SAYS GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT ON INTERNATIONAL DAY

Following is the message of the President of the General Assembly, Jan Kavan (Czech Republic), on the occasion of the International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict, which is observed

6 November:

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Third Committee

37^th Meeting (AM)

IN THIRD COMMITTEE, SPECIAL RAPPORTEURS ON MYANMAR, SUDAN STRESS NEED

FOR HUMAN RIGHTS-BASED APPROACH IN BUILDING SUSTAINABLE FUTURE

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Sixth Committee                                             6 November 2002

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

Security Council

4642^nd Meeting (AM & PM)

REPORT ON EXPLOITATION OF RESOURCES OF DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO

IS CHALLENGED IN SECURITY COUNCIL

Neighbouring Countries, Denying Allegations by Expert Panel,

Call for More Evidence; Others Stress Serious Effects on Peace Process