The General Assembly special session, "Women 2000: Gender Equality, Development and Peace for the Twenty-first Century", also known as Beijing + 5, will be held at United Nations Headquarters in New York from 5 to 9 June.
CORRECTION
On page 6 of Press Release GA/AB/3378 issued 26 May, the third paragraph of the statement of WARREN SACH, Director of the Programme Planning and Budget Division, should read, as follows:
Capping Week-long NGO Deliberations, Document Articulates Civil-Society Vision for UN in Twenty-first Century
Also Begins Consideration of UN Iraq-Kuwait Mission
Decides to Convene Second World Assembly on Ageing in 2002, Adopts Decolonization Committee Report on Peacekeeping Review
Speakers Say Rwanda Human Rights Operation Report Describes Extensive Management Failures, but Holds No One Accountable
MAJURO, Marshall Islands, 22 May -- The Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples held a Pacific Regional Seminar in Majuro, Marshall Islands, from 16 to 19 May 2000.
