MONTERREY, JOHANNESBURG CONFERENCES CAN LEAD TO BETTER ECONOMIC FUTURE

FOR LEAST DEVELOPED COUNTRIES, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS

Following is the message by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the ceremony marking the turnover of the coordinatorship of the group of least developed countries delivered today in New York by Gillian Sorensen, Assistant Secretary-General for External Relations:

LEADER OF 2002 JOHANNESBURG SUMMIT CHALLENGES BUSINESS

TO BECOME FULL PARTNER IN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

World Summit Secretary-General Nitin Desai Calls

On Governments and Advocates to Forge Partnerships with Corporate Sector

UN INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES TASK FORCE

HOLDS SECOND MEETING AT HEADQUARTERS

UN SECURITY COUNCIL TO VISIT ETHIOPIA AND ERITREA

All 15 member of the United Nations Security Council will travel to Ethiopia and Eritrea from 20-25 February to address the peace process between the two neighbouring countries and to discuss with the parties the further implementation of their agreements, signed in Algiers in 2000.

The delegation will be headed by Ambassador Ole Peter Kolby of Norway.

WHO DIRECTOR-GENERAL BRUNDTLAND TO LEAD ECOSOC ROUND TABLE ON HEALTH, 5 FEBRUARY

ADDRESSING HAGUE INTERNATIONAL MODEL UNITED NATIONS, SECRETARY-GENERAL ASKS

HELP OF YOUTH IN IMPLEMENTING MILLENNIUM GOALS

Following is the text of the address by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the Hague International Model United Nations, delivered at The Hague today,

1 February:

Committee on Elimination of

Discrimination against Women

Twenty-sixth Session

549^th Meeting (PM)

 and Round-up

COMMITTEE ON DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN CONCLUDES THREE-WEEK SESSION;

CONSIDERED REPORTS BY EIGHT COUNTRIES

Recommendations Adopted Concerning Fiji, Iceland, Estonia,

Ad Hoc Committee on Assembly

Resolution 51/210

Sixth Session

26^th Meeting (AM)

FINALIZING TREATY REQUIRES AGREEMENT ON ‘ARMED FORCES’,

‘FOREIGN OCCUPATION’, ANTI-TERRORISM COMMITTEE TOLD

Ad Hoc Committee Concludes Current Session

Fifty-sixth General Assembly

Third Committee

59^th Meeting (AM)

ISSUES UNRESOLVED AT DURBAN ANTI-RACISM CONFERENCE REMAIN CONTENTIOUS

AS THIRD COMMITTEE CONCLUDES SESSION ON RACIAL INTOLERANCE

Speakers Welcome Anti-Racism Unit

Proposed for United Nations Human Rights Commission

Round-up

COMMITTEE ON RIGHTS OF CHILD CONCLUDES TWENTY-NINTH SESSION

Releases Final Conclusions and Recommendations on Reports

of Lebanon, Greece, Gabon, Mozambique, Chile, Malawi, Bahrain, and Andorra

(Reissued as received.)