Commission on Status of Women

Forty-sixth Session

5^th Meeting (AM)

EXPERT PANEL EXAMINES LINKS BETWEEN EMPOWERING WOMEN, ERADICATING POVERTY

IN COMMISSION ON STATUS OF WOMEN

The Commission on the Status of Women examined policy, financing and implementation challenges this morning, as it held a panel discussion on one of its two thematic issues for the session, the eradication of poverty through women’s empowerment.

SECRETARY-GENERAL APPOINTS JEAN ARNAULT DEPUTY

SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR AFGHANISTAN

The Secretary-General today appointed Jean Arnault as his Deputy Special Representative for Afghanistan.  Mr. Arnault, whose appointment at the level of Assistant Secretary-General comes into effect immediately, succeeds Francesc Vendrell who retired from the United Nations at the end of January.

Security Council

4485^th Meeting (AM)

ERITREA, ETHIOPIA SHOULD REFRAIN FROM ANY UNILATERAL ACTION

THAT COULD DESTABILIZE SITUATION, SECURITY COUNCIL TOLD

Council Also Hears Calls for Release of Prisoners,

Fifty-sixth General Assembly

Fifth Committee

44^th Meeting (AM)

GROUP OF 77 AND CHINA URGE IMMEDIATE WITHDRAWAL OF CONFERENCE SERVICE

CUTBACKS ANNOUNCED BY SECRETARIAT

A serious issue that emerged in the Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) discussion this morning was the reduction in services announced by the Under-Secretary-General for Management in his information circular ST/IC/2002/13 of 28 February.

Commission on Status of Women

Forty-sixth Session

6^th Meeting (PM)

IMPORTANCE OF WOMEN’S PARTICIPATION IN PROTECTING ENVIRONMENT STRESSED,

AT OPENING OF NOBEL PEACE PRIZE CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION, SECRETARY-GENERAL REFLECTS

ON ‘HOW HUMANKIND’S UNDERSTANDING OF PEACE HAS GROWN’

Following is the text of remarks by Secretary-General Kofi Annan at the opening of the Nobel Peace Prize 1901-2001 Centennial Exhibition, New York 4 March:

Let me express my warmest thanks to the Government of Norway and the sponsors for bringing this wonderful exhibition to New York.

Fifty-sixth General Assembly

Fifth Committee

41^st and 42^nd Meetings (AM & PM)

FIFTH COMMITTEE CONSIDERS SIX REPORTS BY OFFICE OF INTERNAL OVERSIGHT,

INCLUDING ISSUE OF REFUGEE SMUGGLING AT NAIROBI OFFICE

CORRECTION

On pages 16 and 17 of Press Release GA/AB/3493 of 4 March, the statement by DPI Public Affairs Division Director Therese Gastaut should read as follows:

Security Council                                               SC/7319

BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA MISSION ON TRACK TO COMPLETING CORE MANDATE IN 2002

SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS SECURITY COUNCIL

Following is the statement of Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the Security Council in New York on 5 March:

This meeting signals an important moment of transition and consolidation in Bosnia.  I would like to begin by paying tribute to the High Representative,

‘OFTEN THE ONLY CHOICE WE CAN MAKE IS THE CHOICE OF WHOM WE DISAPPOINT MOST’

SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS FIRST ANNUAL MEETING OF DPA FIELD PRESENCES

Following is the text of talking points suggested by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the first annual meeting of the Department of Political Affairs field presences, at its session on “Reconciling Justice with Forgiveness”: