UN, DONORS TALK SERIOUSLY ABOUT SOMALIA

Commission on Sustainable Development

Acting as Preparatory Committee for

 World Summit on Sustainable Development

14^th & 15^th Meetings (AM & PM)

PREPARATORY COMMITTEE FOR WORLD SUMMIT ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT CONCLUDES

SECOND SESSION; ADOPTS ‘CHAIRMAN’S PAPER’ AS NEGOTIATING DOCUMENT

By Recorded Vote of 93-44-16, Approves China’s No Action

PROFESSOR ELISABETH MANN BORGESE, CO-ARCHITECT

OF LAW OF SEA CONVENTION, DIES AT 83

NEW YORK, 8 February (UN Information Service) -- Professor Elizabeth Mann Borgese, who for more than three decades was one of the driving forces in the search for peaceful uses of the oceans and a fair and equitable distribution of their resources, died today in Switzerland at the age of 83.

Commission on Sustainable Development

Acting as the Preparatory Committee for

 World Summit on Sustainable Development

13^th Meeting (AM)

PREPARATORY COMMITTEE FOR WORLD SUMMIT ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

BRIEFED ON PREPARATIONS BY INDONESIA, SOUTH AFRICA

PROGRESS MADE ON DRAFT UN CONVENTION AGAINST CORRUPTION

First Meeting of Ad Hoc Committee Concludes in Vienna

(Delayed in transmission.)

VIENNA, 5 February (UN Information Service) -- Negotiations on a Convention against Corruption have begun at the Ad Hoc Committee for the Elaboration of a Convention against Corruption which concluded its first two-week session in Vienna on 1 February 2002.

Security Council

4470^th Meeting (AM)

HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES BRIEFS SECURITY COUNCIL

ON SITUATION OF WORLD’S 21 MILLION REFUGEES

Ruud Lubbers Cautions against ‘Unwarranted Linkages’

Between Refugees, Terrorists Implicit in Current Anti-Terrorism Measures

Security Council

4471^st Meeting (PM)

IN PRESIDENTIAL STATEMENT, COUNCIL AFFIRMS SUPPORT

FOR TRANSITIONAL GOVERNMENT OF BURUNDI

Commission on Sustainable Development

Acting as the Preparatory Committee for

 World Summit on Sustainable Development

6^th Meeting (PM)

POVERTY ERADICATION, ISLAND STATE VULNERABILITY AMONG ISSUES DISCUSSED,

AS PREPARATORY COMMITTEE FOR JOHANNESBURG SUMMIT BEGINS GENERAL DEBATE

Security Council

4469^th Meeting* (AM)

SECRETARY-GENERAL, SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE BRAHIMI TELL SECURITY COUNCIL

RAPID DISBURSEMENT OF FUNDS PLEDGED ESSENTIAL FOR AFGHAN RECOVERY

SECRETARY-GENERAL BRIEFS SECURITY COUNCIL ON ASIA TRIP

Following is the text of the briefing given by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the Security Council on 6 February concerning his trip to Japan, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran and Qatar: