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Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala,  Honduras, Ecuador, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela and Guyana, on behalf of the Countries of the Caribbean.

RIO GROUP - U.N. 2001    Chile : Pro-Tempore Secretariat

CALENDAR

Winter 2002: Costa Rica receives from Chile the Pro Tempore Secretariat of the Rio Group

STATEMENTS ON BEHALF OF THE RIO GROUP

FIRST COMMITEE

November 12th 2001 - Conference on Measures to Facilitate the Entry into Force of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty. Statement by Mrs. Soledad Alvear, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Chile, on behalf of the Member States of the Rio Group.

October 8th 2001 - First Committee, General Debate. Fifty-Six Session of the United Nations General Assembly. Statement By Ambassador Juan Gabriel Valdes, Permanent Representative of Chile to the United Nations on behalf of the member states of the Rio Group.

July 10th 2001 - United Nations Conference on the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects. Statement by Ambassador at Large Jorge Burgos, head of the Delegation of Chile, on behalf of the countries of the Rio Group.

• Note verbale dated 4 September from the Permanent Mission of Chile to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary General transmitting the communiqué of the Rio Group on the prohibition of the dumping of radioactive wastes

• Note verbale dated 8 May 2001 from the Permanent Mission of Chile to the United Nations addressed to the Department for Disarmament Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat transmitting the communiqué of the Rio Group on the illicit trade in small arms and light weapons in all its aspects

SECOND COMMITTEE

October 30th 2001 - Item 98: Environment and Sustainable Development. 56th General Assembly - Second Committee. Statement by the Permanent Representative of Chile to the United Nations, Ambassador Juan Gabriel Valdes, on behalf of the member states of the Rio Group.

October 15th 2001 - III Resumed Session of the Preparatory Committee for the International Conference on Financing for Development. Statement by the Permanent Representative of Chile to the United Nations, Ambassador Juan Gabriel Valdes, on behalf of the member states of the Rio Group.

April 19th 2001 - Ninth Session of the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD-9). Statement by the Permanent Representative of Chile Ambassador Juan Gabriel Valdés on behalf of the member states of the Rio Group.

February 12th 2001 - Financing for Development. Statement by the Permanent Representative of Chile Ambassador Juan Gabriel Valdés on behalf of the member states of the Rio Group.

• Open-ended informal consultative process on Ocean Affairs (April 26th 2001)

THIRD COMMITTEE

October 22nd 2001 - Item 115: Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Children. 56th General Assembly - Third Committee. Statement by the Permanent Representative of Chile to the United Nations, Ambassador Juan Gabriel Valdes, on behalf of the member states of the Rio Group.

October 17th 2001 - Follow-up of the Special Session of the General Assembly on " Women 2000: gender equality, development and peace for the twenty-first century". Statement by the Permanent Representative of Chile to the United Nations, Ambassador Juan Gabriel Valdés, on behalf of the countries members of the Rio Group.

October 12th 2001 - Item 111: International Drug Control. 56th General Assembly - Third Committee. Statement by the Permanent Representative of Chile to the United Nations, Ambassador Juan Gabriel Valdes, on behalf of the member states of the Rio Group.

October 9th 2001 - Item 109: Follow-up to the International Year of Older Persons: Second World Assembly on Ageing. 56th General Assembly - Third Committee. Statement by the Permanent Representative of Chile to the United Nations, Ambassador Juan Gabriel Valdes, on behalf of the member states of the Rio Group.

October 8th 2001 - Item 27: Implementation of the outcome of the World Summit for Social Development and of the twenty-fourth special session of the General Assembly. 56th General Assembly - Third Committee. Statement by the Permanent Representative of Chile to the United Nations, Ambassador Juan Gabriel Valdes, on behalf of the member states of the Rio Group.

June 11th 2001 - Third substantive session of the Preparatory Committee for the Special Session of the General Assembly on Children. Statement by the Permanent Representative of Chile to the United Nations, Ambassador Juan Gabriel Valdes, on behalf of the Rio Group.

April 20th 2001 - Special Session of the General Assembly  on HIV/AIDS. Open-ended informal consultations of the preparatory process. Statement on behalf of the countries of the Rio Group.

March 1st 2001 - Preparatory process for the special session of the United Nations General Assembly on the Human Immuno-Deficiency Virus / Acquired Immuno-Deficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS). Statement by Ambassador Juan Gabriel Valdés on behalf of the member states of the Rio Group.

• Rio Group proposals for the draft declaration of commitment on HIV/AIDS (HIV/AIDS/CRP.4)

FOURTH COMMITTEE

November 20th 2001 - Agenda Item 89: Comprehensive Review of the whole question of Peacekeeping Operations in all their aspects. Statement by the Permanent Representative of Chile to the United Nations, Ambassador Juan Gabriel Valdes, on behalf of the member states of the Rio Group.

October 8th 2001 - Item 18: Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples. Fifty-Sixth Session of the United Nations General Assembly, Special Political and Decolonization Committee (Fourth Committee). Statement by Ambassador Juan Gabriel Valdés, Permanent representative of Chile to the United Nations, on behalf of the countries members of the Rio Group.

FIFTH COMMITTEE

October 15th 2001 - Item 125: Scale of Assessments - Article 19 (Fifth Committee). Statement by Ambassador Cristian Maquieira, Deputy Permanent Representative of Chile to the United Nations, on behalf of the member states of the Rio Group.

May 14th 2001 - Agenda item 153: Administrative and Budgetary aspects of the Financing of the United Nations Peacekeeping Operations. Reimbursement of Contingent-Owned Equipment. Statement by the delegation of Chile on behalf of the countries of the Rio Group.

May 7th 2001 - Resumed Session of the Fifth Committee on Financing of Peacekeeping Operations. Statement by the Rio Group.

SIXTH COMMITTEE

November 28th 2001 - Agenda Item: Oceans and the Law of the Sea. Statement by the Councelor of Chile Alejandra Quezada on behalf of the member states of the Rio Group.

November 12th 2001 - Establishment of the International Criminal Court. Sixth Committee. Statement by the Permanent Representative of Chile to the United Nations, Ambassador Juan Gabriel Valdes, on behalf of the member states of the Rio Group.

October 15th 2001 - Measures to Eliminate International Terrorism. Working Group of the Sixth Committee. Statement on behalf of the member states of the Rio Group.

October 8th 2001 - Item 161 of the Agenda, Sixth Committee: Report of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law on the Work of its Thirty-Fourth Session. 56° Session of the General Assembly. Statement by the Deputy Permanent Representative of Chile to the United Nations, Ambassador Cristian Maquieira, on behalf of the countries of the Rio Group.

May 7th 2001 - Open-ended Informal Consultative Process established by the General Assembly in its resolution 54/33 in order to facilitate the annual review by the Assembly of developments in ocean affairs. Statement by Counsellor Alejandra Quezada on behalf of the countries members of the Rio Group.

April 2nd 2001 - Special Committee on the Charter of the United Nations and on the Strengthening of the Role of the Organization. Statement by Ambassador Juan Gabriel Valdés, Permanent Representative of Chile, on behalf of the member states of the Rio Group.

• Open-ended informal consultative process on Ocean Affairs (April 26th 2001)

LOG-BOARD

April 30 2001	Seminar: "Latin America and the Caribbean before the International Conference on Financing for Development". Organized by the Rio Group at the UN and ECLAC. Conference Room Nr. 1 - UN - New York
February 5 2001	Welcome ceremony by the Permanent Mission of Colombia to the Permanent Mission of Chile as new Pro-Tempore Secretariat for the Rio Group.
February 6 2001	Official transfer of the Pro-Tempore Secretariat from Colombia to Chile
February 9 2001	Meeting of Permanent Representatives of the Rio Group
February 12 2001	Meeting of Troika of the Rio Group and the G-77 Presidency
March 7 2001	Meeting of Permanent Representatives of the Rio Group
March 27 2001	Meeting of Permanent Representatives of the Rio Group
March 29 2001	Meeting of Deputy Permanent Representatives of the Rio Group
May 10 2001	Meeting of Deputy Permanent Representatives of the Rio Group
May 22 2001	Meeting of Permanent Representatives of the Rio Group
June 1st 2001	Meeting of Permanent Representatives of the Rio Group
June 12 2001	Meeting of Permanent Representatives of the Rio Group. Special Session of UNGA on Childhood.
July 10, 13 & 17 2001	Meeting of Experts FfD - II Comm. /PMofCh.
July 11 2001	Meeting of Permanent Representatives of the Rio Group
July 20 2001	Meeting of Permanent Representatives of the Rio Group (FfD)
February-August 2001	Meeting of Committee officials, Functional Committees of ECOSOC and Special Conferences of the UN.
July 2001	ECOSOC Activities, Geneva
November 12 2001	Meeting of National Coordinators of the member states of the Rio Group
November 14 2001	Meeting of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the member states of the Rio Group
November 14 2001	Luncheon: Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Permanent Representatives to the United Nations and National Coordinators of the member states of the Rio Group.

IN CHILE:

• March 26th 2001 - First Meeting of National Coordinators of the Rio Group

• March 27th 2001 - Twentieth Meeting of Foreign Ministers of the Rio Group

• March 28th 2001 - Tenth Institutional Ministerial Meeting between the Rio Group and the European Union

• August 17th-18th 2001 - Fifteenth Summit of Chiefs of States and Governments of  the Rio Group - Santiago de Chile

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