Note to Correspondents

UN INTERNATIONALSCHOOL TO HOLD GRADUATION CEREMONY IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY HALL 7 JUNE

The United Nations International School (UNIS) will hold its Graduation Ceremony in the General Assembly Hall on 7 June 2005 at 3 p.m.

Special Committee on

Decolonization

3^rd Meeting (AM)

DECOLONIZATION COMMITTEE APPROVES TEXTS CONCERNING INFORMATION

RECEIVED FROM ADMINISTRATIVE POWERS, VISITING MISSIONS

 

Fifty-ninth General Assembly

Plenary

101^st Meeting (AM)

GENERAL ASSEMBLY APPOINTS CONTRIBUTIONS COMMITTEE MEMBER

 

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES

AND HEALTH CARE TO BE HELD AT UN HEADQUARTERS, 9 JUNE

 

The international conference “Promoting an Enabling Environment:  Music, Technology, Culture and Health Care” will take place at United Nations Headquarters, the Economic and Social Council Chamber, on Thursday, 9 June, from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m.

SEVERE SHORTAGE IN FUNDING FOR DJIBOUTI DROUGHT

NEW YORK, 6 June (OCHA) -- Six weeks into the flash appeal for $7.5 million for drought relief in Djibouti, donors have failed to provide funding for 95 per cent of needs, leaving the agricultural, food and coordination sectors of the appeal wholly unfunded.

Secretary-General welcomes peaceful conduct of elections in most of Burundi

 

but condemns violence in some areas

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

General Assembly president’s draft outcome for 2005 summit is valuable guidepost

for advancing development, security, human rights, Secretary-General says

Following is a statement by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the General Assembly President’s draft outcome for the 2005 summit:

SECRETARY-GENERAL APPOINTS AMBASSADOR KAI EIDE OF NORWAY AS HIS

SPECIAL ENVOY TO UNDERTAKE COMPEHENSIVE REVIEW OF KOSOVO

Biographical Note

SECRETARY-GENERAL’S PANEL URGES GREATER, MORE CONSISTENT

 

INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT FOR AFRICA’S DEVELOPMENT

Emeka Anyaoku of Nigeria, the Chair of a special advisory panel on international support for Africa, today submitted the panel’s recommendations to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan.