Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues

Fifth Session

3^rd & 4^th Meetings (AM & PM)

INTERNATIONAL IDEA OF ‘DEVELOPMENT’ DISREGARDS UNIQUE CONCERNS

OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES, UN FORUM TOLD

Sixtieth General Assembly

Plenary

82^nd Meeting* (PM)

GENERAL ASSEMBLY ELECTS FINAL SEVEN MEMBER STATES TO SERVE

ON PEACEBUILDING COMMISSION’S ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITTEE

In Separate Decision, Assembly Changes Dates

Committee on NGOs

21^st & 22^nd Meetings (AM & PM)

Committee on NGOs Recommends Five Organizations for Consultative Status

with Economic and Social Council, rejects one application

 

Committee on Elimination of

Discrimination against Women

720^th Meeting (AM)

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, accompanied by Mrs. Annan, arrived in Vienna from New York in the afternoon of Thursday, 11 May, on the first leg of a trip that will also take him to five Asian countries.

LANDMARK ACTION PROGRAMME SHOULD BE TRANSLATED INTO BETTER LIFE

FOR EVERY INDIGENOUS PERSON, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL

 

SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES STUDENTS AT SEOUL UNIVERSITY TO DEDICATE THEMSELVES

TO ADDRESSING COUNTRY’S, CENTURY’S GREAT CHALLENGES

 

Following are UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s remarks to students at Seoul National University in the Republic of Korea, 15 May:

Biographical Note

SECRETARY-GENERAL APPOINTS FORMER PRESIDENT JORGE SAMPAIO OF PORTUGAL

FIRST SPECIAL ENVOY TO STOP TUBERCULOSIS

 

Biographical Note

SECRETARY-GENERAL APPOINTS JAN MATTSSON OF SWEDEN AS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

OF UNITED NATIONS OFFICE FOR PROJECT SERVICES

 

PRESS STATEMENT ON AFGHANISTAN TERROR ATTACK BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT

 

The following statement to the press was delivered today by Security Council President Basile Ikouebe ( Congo):