WITH AGEING OF GLOBAL POPULATION, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL,

‘THERE IS NO TIME TO LOSE’ IN PREPARING FUTURE

Following is the text of today’s address to the Madrid NGO Forum on Ageing by Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES AGREEMENT ON INTER-KOREAN RELATIONS

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

TREATY ON SUPPRESSION OF FINANCING OF TERRORISM COMES INTO FORCE

(Received from a UN Information Officer.)

NEW YORK, 5 April -- A new and potentially powerful anti-terrorism measure, the International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism, will enter into force on 10 April 2002, having received more than the required

GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT URGES PARTICIPANTS AT MADRID CONFERENCE ON AGEING

TO WORK FOR EARLY IMPLEMENTATION OF INTERNATIONAL PLAN OF ACTION

Following is today’s address by Han Seung-soo (Republic of Korea), President of the General Assembly, to the Madrid World Assembly on Ageing:

SECRETARY-GENERAL STRESSES CHALLENGE OF BUILDING A SOCIETY FIT FOR PEOPLE

OF ALL AGES, IN ADDRESS TO SECOND WORLD ASSEMBLY ON AGEING, MADRID

The following is the text of the address by Secretary-General Kofi Annan, as delivered to the Second World Assembly on Ageing in Madrid:

Preparatory Commission for

International Criminal Court

34^th Meeting (AM)

STATEMENT BY BUREAU OF COMMITTEE ON EXERCISE OF INALIENABLE RIGHTS

OF PALESTINIAN PEOPLE

(Reissued as received.)

The Bureau of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People adopted the following statement at its meeting in New York on

5 April 2002:

INFORMAL CONSULTATIVE PROCESS ON OCEAN AFFAIRS TO HOLD THIRD MEETING

AT HEADQUARTERS, 8 - 15 APRIL

To Focus on Protection, Preservation of Marine Environment; Capacity-

Building, Regional Cooperation and Coordination, Integrated Ocean Management

The Third Meeting of the United Nations Consultative Process on Ocean Affairs will focus its one-week session, to be held at Headquarters from 8 to

Security Council

4510^th Meeting* (PM)

SECURITY COUNCIL MEETS AGAIN ON MIDDLE EAST, AT REQUEST OF ARAB GROUP,

WITH SPEAKERS DEMANDING IMPLEMENTATION OF RECENT RESOLUTIONS

Many Stress Need for Deployment of International Observer Force,

UN BODIES ADDRESS AGEING ASSEMBLY’S MAIN COMMITTEE

(Received from a UN Information Officer.)

Six United Nations bodies addressed the Main Committee of the Second World Assembly on Ageing this afternoon, presenting their views and reporting on the relevant experiences on the ageing of the world population.