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Secretary-General addressed the forty-first session of the Commission on the Status of Women.
On eastern Zaire, Mr. Eckhard said that the inter-agency mission to Tingi-Tingi which was announced on Friday had taken place yesterday, Sunday, with the participation of the United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator for the Great Lakes Region Martin Griffiths, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), World Food Programme (WFP), United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and "Medecins sans Frontieres" of the Netherlands.
On Guatemala, Mr. Eckhard said that the United Nations peace-keeping mission there had appeared to be off to a good start.
The Secretary-General had warmly welcomed the agreement reached by India and Pakistan, the Spokesman continued, to hold a meeting of their Foreign Secretaries in New Delhi from 28 to 31 March.
Eckhard said that the Secretary-General had had a statement read on his behalf at the opening of the fifty-third session of the Commission on Human Rights in Geneva today, in which he said: "As Secretary-General, I will be a champion of human rights and will ensure that human rights are fully integrated in the action of the Organization in all other domains."
The Secretary-General would today be meeting with the five permanent members of the Security Council on the "oil-for-food" programme for Iraq.
The Security Council would not be meeting today, the Spokesman said. Tomorrow it was expected to take up three items: first, the Secretary- General's report recommending a three-month extension of the United Nations Mission of Observers in Tajikistan (UNMOT); secondly, there was a draft presidential statement on West Mostar; and thirdly, a draft presidential statement, submitted by the Russian Federation, on safety and security of United Nations personnel.
On Tajikistan, the Moscow Round of inter-Tajik talks ended last Saturday with the signing of an agreement on military issues.
the Secretary-General's report on the human rights situation in Croatia would be out shortly, if it was not out already. The report considered further developments since the last report of 5 November, and was current through late February.
Eckhard said there was a letter from the Foreign Minister of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to the Secretary-General about to be circulated as a document, requesting cessation of the reduction of the United Nations Preventive Deployment Force (UNPREDEP) in his country, because of the situation in neighbouring Albania.
He drew attention to a United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) press release concerning the earthquake in Iran.
The Spokesperson explained that the flag in front of the Secretariat building was flying at half-mast in honour of Dr. Cheddi Jagan, President of the Republic of Guyana, who died on 6 March.
Samsiah Abdul-Majid, spokesperson for the President of the General Assembly, told correspondents that the Assembly President had received a letter from the Permanent Representative of Qatar, as Chairman of Group of Arab States for March, requesting an urgent meeting of the General Assembly be convened to consider agenda items 33 and 35, on the situation in the Middle East and the question of Palestine, respectively. The Assembly would convene on Wednesday, 12 March, for that purpose.
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