Ad Hoc Committee for International Convention

against Reproductive Cloning of Human Beings

1^st and 2^nd Meetings (AM & PM)

AT FIRST-EVER MEETING, COMMITTEE ON CONVENTION TO BAN HUMAN CLONING

HEARS EXPERT VIEWS ON SCIENCE, ETHICS INVOLVED

SECRETARY-GENERAL CONDEMNS KIDNAPPING OF COLOMBIAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE

The following statement was issued on 24 February by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

The Secretary-General condemns the kidnapping by the FARC of presidential candidate, Ingrid Betancourt, as a clear violation of international humanitarian law.  Such violent actions undermine the forthcoming elections and intimidate the civilian population.

WINSTON A. TUBMAN APPOINTED HEAD OF SOMALIA POLITICAL OFFICE

Secretary-General Kofi Annan has designated Winston A. Tubman as Head of the United Nations Political Office for Somalia (UNPOS).  Mr. Tubman will assume his duties next month in Nairobi, Kenya, where the Office is currently located.

SECRETARY-GENERAL CALLS ON ANGOLAN PARTIES TO USE 'NEW AND CHANGED

CIRCUMSTANCES' TO ADVANCE CAUSE OF PEACE

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS ZIMBABWE ELECTIONS CRITICAL TEST FOR DEMOCRACY IN AFRICA

The following statement was issued on Thursday, 21 February, by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

Preparatory Committee for

Second World Assembly on Ageing

1^st Meeting (AM)                                

SECOND WORLD ASSEMBLY EXPECTED TO CONTRIBUTE NEW IDEAS TO CONFRONT PROBLEMS

OF POPULATION AGEING, PREPARATORY COMMITTEE TOLD

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES CEASEFIRE AGREEMENT IN SRI LANKA

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

The Secretary-General welcomes the ceasefire agreement signed last Friday between the Government of Sri Lanka and the “Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam” (LTTE).  He congratulates the parties and the Norwegian Facilitation for this important step.

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT SUMMIT MUST MARK BREAK WITH BUSINESS AS USUAL,

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN LECTURE AT LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS

Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s 25 February lecture to the London School of Economics and Political Science entitled “From Doha to Johannesburg by Way of Monterrey:  How to Achieve, and Sustain, Development in the Twenty-first Century”:

CAUTION: ADVANCE RELEASE

Not for use before

27 February 2002

NEW CHALLENGES IN DRUG LAW ENFORCEMENT FROM GLOBALIZATION

AND NEW TECHNOLOGIES

VIENNA, 27 February (UN Information Service) -- Governments must take action to limit the dangers that globalization and new technologies pose in fighting drugs, urges the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) in its Annual Report published today.

UN SECRETARY-GENERAL KOFI ANNAN URGES ‘COALITION FOR RESPONSIBLE PROSPERITY’

LONDON, 25 February (DPI) -– The World Summit on Sustainable Development, to be held in South Africa later this year, “must mark a break with business as usual”, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan declared today.