Committee on Charter                                        L/2998/Rev.1*

SECRETARY-GENERAL CONDEMNS MURDER OF TWO INTERNATIONAL OBSERVERS NEAR HEBRON

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

PRESS STATEMENT ON AFGHANISTAN BY PRESIDENT OF SECURITY COUNCIL

Following is the text of today’s press statement on Afghanistan by the President of the Security Council, Ole Peter Kolby (Norway):

Council members met in informal consultations and discussed the situation in Afghanistan, in particular the establishment of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan.

Fifty-sixth General Assembly

Plenary

97^th Meeting (PM)

FOLLOWING RECORDED VOTE, GENERAL ASSEMBLY ADOPTS DECLARATION,

PROGRAMME OF ACTION OF DURBAN WORLD CONFERENCE AGAINST RACISM

Also Adopts 18 Texts on Administrative, Budgetary Matters,

Including Two Texts Limiting Cutbacks on Internet Services for Permanent Missions

Human Rights Committee

Seventy-fourth Session

1999^th & 2000^th Meetings* (AM & PM)

HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE DISCUSSES DRAFT GENERAL COMMENTS

ON REPORTING OBLIGATIONS, NATIONAL LEGAL OBLIGATIONS

PRESS STATEMENT ON DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO

BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT

Following is the text of today's press statement on the Democratic Republic of the Congoby the President of the Security Council, Ole Peter Kolby (Norway):

SECRETARY-GENERAL CONGRATULATES PAPUA NEW GUINEA ON PARLIAMENTARY ENDORSEMENT

OF BOUGAINVILLE PEACE AGREEMENT

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

Commission on Sustainable Development

Acting as Preparatory Committee for

 World Summit on Sustainable Development

2^nd Meeting (AM)

COMMISSION ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT HEARS FROM VICE-PRESIDENT OF UGANDA

ON LAND, WATER MANAGEMENT

Security Council

4498^th Meeting (AM)

ASSISTANT SECRETARY-GENERAL BRIEFS SECURITY COUNCIL ON RECENT EVENTS IN KOSOVO,

INCLUDING AGREEMENT ON PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT, RETURN OF ALBANIAN PRISONERS

Serbia’s Deputy Prime Minister Says ‘Trouble Ahead’

Without Progress in 2002 on Building Institutions, Multi-Ethnic Society

UNITED NATIONS AND CHINA TO HOLD INTERNATIONAL DISARMAMENT CONFERENCE IN BEIJING

NEW YORK, 26 March (Department for Disarmament Affairs) -- On 2 April, the United Nations Department for Disarmament Affairs and the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs will co-host a three-day international conference on “A Disarmament Agenda for the 21^st Century.”