Press Release

DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL REVIEWS DANGERS, POTENTIAL REWARDS OF ECOTOURSIM

Following is the address by Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette to the launching ceremony of the International Year of Ecotourism:

Commission on Sustainable Development

Acting as the Preparatory Committee for

 World Summit on Sustainable Development 

1^st Meeting (AM)

Fifty-sixth General Assembly

Third Committee

57^th Meeting* (PM)

EFFORTS TO IMPLEMENT ANTI-RACISM STRATEGY MUST FOCUS

ON EDUCATION, THIRD COMMITTEE TOLD

Security Council

4455^th Meeting (PM)

SECURITY COUNCIL EXTENDS UNIFIL’S MANDATE BY SIX MONTHS, UNTIL 31 JULY 2002

The Security Council this afternoon extended the mandate of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) by a further six months, until 31 July, condemning all acts of violence and expressing great concern about the serious violations of the withdrawal line separating Lebanese and Israeli forces.

The Secretary-General left Tokyo for Islamabad, Pakistan, on the morning of Wednesday, 23 January, stopping in Bangkok, Thailand, to pick up a private plane that Qatar made available to him for the next legs of his trip.

UN REPORT RELEASED ON INVESTIGATION INTO ALLEGATIONS OF REFUGEE SMUGGLING;

NINE INDIVIDUALS ARRESTED BY KENYAN AUTHORITIES

Committee on Elimination of

Discrimination against Women

Twenty-sixth Session

543^rd and 544^th Meetings (AM and PM)

COMMITTEE IS GENERALLY ‘ENCOURAGED’ BY RUSSIAN FEDERATION REPORT,

BUT CONCERNED OVER CHECHNYA, WOMEN’S ACCESS TO SENIOR POSITIONS

The Secretary-General arrived in Kabul this morning to offer moral support to the new Interim Administration and to thank members of the United Nations staff in Afghanistan for their sustained effort to provide humanitarian assistance to the Afghan people.

Committee on NGOs

49^th Meeting (AM)

COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS THREE NGOS FOR SPECIAL CONSULTATIVE STATUS

WITH ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL

Committee on NGOs                                           NGO/460*