Commission for Social Development                           SOC/4562/Corr.1

Thirty-ninth Session                                        16 February 2001

BORDER CLOSURES AND OTHER RESTRICTIONS CAUSE CONCERN ABOUT PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY’S

CAPACITY TO CONTINUE FUNCTIONING, SECRETARY-GENERAL STATES

Following is the text of a statement issued today by the Office of the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

UN ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMME CONFIRMS PLUTONIUM FOUND IN DU AMMUNITION

GENEVA, 16 February (UNEP) –- Traces of plutonium have been detected in the DU penetrators found at sites in Kosovo that were investigated in November 2000 by the United Nations Environment Programme's (UNEP) Depleted Uranium Assessment Team, which included the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), UNEP reported here today.

SECRETARY-GENERAL APPOINTS NEW DEPUTY SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE IN KOSOVO

Secretary-General Kofi Annan today announced the appointment of Gary L. Matthews of the United States as his Principal Deputy Special Representative of the United Nations Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK).  Mr. Matthews will replace Jock Covey, who had served in the same position since the middle of 1999.

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21 February 2001

CANNABIS IS NORTH AMERICA'S MOST ABUSED DRUG, SAYS INTERNATIONAL

NARCOTICS CONTROL BOARD REPORT 2000

Commission for Social Development

Thirty-ninth Session

6^th Meeting (PM)

VOLUNTARY ACTIVITIES MUST SUPPORT DEVELOPMENT GOALS,

COMMISSION FOR SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT TOLD

Voluntary activities must complement and support national development goals and policies in order to touch the lives of those communities they wished to target, the representative of the Philippines told the Commission for Social Development this afternoon.

UN POPULATION FUND NAMES MISS UNIVERSE 2000, LARA DUTTA, GOODWILL AMBASSADOR

CONFERENCE ON DISARMAMENT HEARS STATEMENTS FROM MYANMAR, NEW ZEALAND,

MALAYSIA, SWEDEN, CHINA, UNITED STATES AND GERMANY

(Reissued as received.)

Commission for Social Development

Thirty-ninth Session

5^th Meeting (AM)

ACTION BY VOLUNTEERS MUST BE FACTORED INTO NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES,

SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION TOLD

MAKING MOTHERHOOD SAFER: REPORT DETAILS UN POPULATION FUND’S

EFFORTS TO REDUCE MATERNAL MORTALITY

NEW YORK, 15 February (UNFPA) -— A new report by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) enumerates the actions the Fund is taking to make motherhood safer in developing countries.