| Press Release Note No. 5945 |
Note to Correspondents
PANEL DISCUSSION ON ‘TERRORISM: A CHALLENGE TO CIVILIZED SOCIETY’,
TO BE HELD ON 9 JUNE
| Press Release Note No. 5944 |
Note to Correspondents
FREE UNITED NATIONS GUIDED TOURS ON SUNDAYS IN JUNE
IN CONTEXT OF UNITED NATIONS SIXTIETH ANNIVERSARY
| Press Release GA/10351 |
Fifty-ninth General Assembly
Plenary
99th & 100th Meetings (AM & PM)
PROGRESS ‘SIGNIFICANT BUT INSUFFICIENT’, GENERAL ASSEMBLY
HIGH-LEVEL MEETING ON HIV/AIDS TOLD
Achievements Noted in Political Leadership, Funding, Prevention,
But 2004 Saw More New Infections, AIDS-Related Deaths than Ever Before
| Press Release DCF/448 |
RUSSIA, INDIA, ALGERIA, POLAND, TURKEY ADDRESS DISARMAMENT CONFERENCE
ON NUCLEAR, OTHER ISSUES
Conference Opens Second Part of 2005 Session
(Reissued as received.)
| Press Release AFR/1177 IHA/1048 |
UN HUMANITARIAN OFFICE SAYS ZERO FUNDING RECEIVED FOR FOOD CRISiS IN NIGER
| Press Release SG/SM/9901 AFG/275 |
Secretary-General outraged by ‘senseless attack’
on mosque in kandahar, afghanistan
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan:
| Press Release Note No. 5943 |
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.
| Press Release GA/AB/3680 |
Fifty-ninth General Assembly
Fifth Committee
56th Meeting (AM)
BOARD OF AUDITORS REPORTS, FINANCING FOR BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINAMISSION
AMONG ISSUES ADDRESSED BY BUDGET COMMITTEE TEXTS
| Press Release UNEP/289 |
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”.
