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.)

PRESIDENT OF UNITED NATIONS SECURITY COUNCIL AND CHAIRMAN

OF MILITARY STAFF COMMITTEE IN FEBRUARY

In accordance with the principle of alphabetical rotation, the following are the President of the United Nations Security Council and Chairman of the Military Staff Committee for February:

Security Council

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES APPOINTMENT OF MARJORIE TIVEN AS NEW YORK CITY

COMMISSIONER FOR UNITED NATIONS, CONSULAR CORPS

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

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:

Security Council

4466^th Meeting (PM)

SECURITY COUNCIL HIGHLIGHTS ISSUES CONCERNING AFGHANISTAN, AFRICA,

MIDDLE EAST, TERRORISM, IN ‘WRAP UP’ MEETING FOR JANUARY

SECRETARY-GENERAL APPOINTS NIGEL FISHER AS DEPUTY SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE

FOR HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS IN AFGHANISTAN

While on his first official visit to Kabul on 25 January 2002, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan announced the appointment of Nigel Fisher as his Deputy Special Representative for Humanitarian Affairs in Afghanistan.