Note to Correspondents

UN UNIVERSITY TO LAUNCH NEW REPORT ON ‘BIOPROSPECTING IN THE DEEP SEABED’, 9 JUNE

A new report by the United Nations University Institute for Advanced Studies, Bioprospecting of Genetic Resources in the Deep Seabed, a comprehensive review of scientific, legal and policy issues in deep seabed bioprospecting, will be launched on 9 June at a UNU briefing in Conference Room 6 from 1:30 to 2:45 p.m.

Fifty-ninth General Assembly

Fifth Committee

56^th Meeting (AM)

BOARD OF AUDITORS REPORTS, FINANCING FOR BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINAMISSION

 

AMONG ISSUES ADDRESSED BY BUDGET COMMITTEE TEXTS

 

MONTREAL CONFERENCE TO CLARIFY SHIPPING DOCUMENTATION RULES

 

FOR GENETICALLY MODIFIED COMMODITIES

 

(Reissued as received.)

MONTREAL, 30 May (UNEP) -- The 119 member governments to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety are meeting here this week until 3 June to clarify international trade rules for genetically modified commodities.

UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan arrived in Khartoum, Sudan, for a three-day visit on Friday, 27 May, from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.  On arrival, he told the waiting press that he expected that, after his visits to Darfur and the south, he would “have a better sense, a first hand impression, of what is going on in the country”.

SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES PURSUIT OF INCLUSIVE, PARTICIPATORY,

TRANSPARENT CONSTITUTIONAL PROCESS IN IRAQ

The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

SECRETARY-GENERAL ‘VERY ENCOURAGED’ BY DEMOCRATIC CONDUCT

 

OF LEBANESE PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS

 

The following statement was issued on 29 May by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

ONLY POLITICAL SETTLEMENT CAN RESOLVE DARFUR CONFLICT, SECRETARY-GENERAL

TELLS CONSTITUTIONAL REVIEW COMMISSION IN SUDAN

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s statement to the National Constitutional Review Commission in Rumbek, Sudan on 29 May:

Chairman John Garang,

PRESS STATEMENT ON SECURITY COUNCIL IRAQ CONSULTATIONS

Following is the press statement on Security Council Iraq consultations delivered today by Security Council President Ellen Margrethe Løj (Denmark):

Security Council

5193^rd Meeting (PM)

SECURITY COUNCIL EXTENDS UN OPERATION IN BURUNDI UNTIL 1 DECEMBER,

UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTING RESOLUTION 1602 (2005)

 

Welcoming recent positive achievements by the parties in Burundi, including since the deployment of the United Nations Operation (ONUB) there last June, the Security Council this afternoon extended the mandate of the Operation until 1 December 2005.

Security Council

5192^nd Meeting (PM)

SECURITY COUNCIL EXTENDS HAITIMISSION UNTIL 24 JUNE,

WITH FURTHER RENEWALS PLANNED

Resolution 1601 (2005) Adopted Unanimously;

Secretary-General’s Reports Proposes Increased Troop-Level, 12 Month Extension