Human Rights Committee

Seventy-first Session

1908^th Meeting (AM)

NATIONAL LAWS IN KEEPING WITH COVENANT PROVISIONS, HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE TOLD

AS IT TAKES UP REPORT ON UZBEKISTAN

The Human Rights Committee this morning began its consideration of the initial report of Uzbekistan on its compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

                                                      SG/SM/7754/Rev.1

Resumed Fifty-fifth General Assembly

Fifth Committee

52^nd Meeting (AM)

ADMINISTRATIVE AND BUDGETARY COMMITTEE BEGINS DISCUSSION OF ALTERNATIVES

TO CURRENT ARREARS CALCULATION UNDER CHARTER’S ARTICLE 19

Also Takes Up Reports on Oversight Mechanisms,

GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT, IN MESSAGE ON WORLD TUBERCULOSIS DAY,

URGES FOCUS ON EDUCATION, AWARENESS TO FIGHT DEEPENING EPIDEMIC

Following is the message of the President of the General Assembly, Harri Holkeri (Finland), on World Tuberculosis Day, which is observed 25 March:

Preparatory Committee for the

United Nations Conference on

 The Illicit Trade in Small Arms

 And Light Weapons in All Its Aspects

36^th Meeting (AM)

SMALL ARMS MUST BE KEPT OUT OF HANDS OF CHILDREN;

CONFERENCE PREPARATORY COMMITTEE TOLD

Human Rights Committee

Seventy-first Session

1909^th Meeting (PM)

HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE COMMEMORATES TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF ENTRY

INTO FORCE OF COVENANT ON CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS

The Human Rights Committee met this afternoon to commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the entry-into-force of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

The Secretary-General travelled to Washington, D.C., on Friday afternoon,  23 March, for his first meeting with United States President George W. Bush and senior members of his Administration.

Resumed Fifty-fifth General Assembly

Fifth Committee

51^st Meeting (AM)

ADMINISTRATIVE AND BUDGETARY COMMITTEE TAKES UP REVISED

2000-2001 BUDGET FOR SIERRA LEONE MISSION

SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS WORK FOR PEACE MUST ENGAGE EVERYONE

Following is the text of remarks by Secretary-General Kofi Annan today in New York to the Advisory Meeting on the Academic Programme of the University for Peace:

UNITED NATIONS SEEKS $65 MILLION IN AID TO WEST AFRICA

GENEVA, 23 March (UNIS) -- United Nations aid agencies today said they needed $65 million this year to tackle humanitarian crises in West Africa that affect some 3 million people in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Côte d'Ivoire. They include refugees and internally displaced people, as well as impoverished communities that host the uprooted.