TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN SEPTEMBER 2004

The following is a tentative list of United Nations meetings scheduled to be held in September, including major meetings of intergovernmental organizations related to the United Nations:

Meetings continued from previous month:

Secretary-General, deeply concerned by violent attacks in Afghanistan,

 

Calls for necessary safety, security for electoral workers

 

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

MAJOR-GENERAL PALMIERI APPOINTED CHIEF MILITARY OBSERVER

 

IN UN MILITARY OBSERVER GROUP IN INDIA AND PAKISTAN

Secretary-General Kofi Annan announced today the appointment of Major-General Guido Palmieri of Italy as Chief Military Observer in the United Nations Observer Group in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP).

Background Release

VERNOR MUÑOZ VILLALOBOS APPOINTED UN SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON RIGHT TO EDUCATION

(Reissued as received.)

GENEVA, 30 August (UN Information Service) -- United Nations Commission on Human Rights Chairman Mike Smith has appointed Vernor Muñoz Villalobos of Costa Rica as Special Rapporteur on the right to education.  The appointment was made on 13 July 2004 in consultation with representatives of the different regional groups in the Commission.

2004 UNITED NATIONS PROGRAMME OF FELLOWSHIPS ON DISARMAMENT STARTS IN GENEVA

(Reissued as received.)

GENEVA, 30 August (UN Information Service) -- The 2004 United Nations Programme of Fellowships on Disarmament starts today at the United Nations Office at Geneva with the participation of young diplomats from 30 Member States of the United Nations.  The programme will last for a period of almost 10 weeks.

UNEP Launches First Report on State of Environment

 

in Democratic People's Republic of Korea

 

Identifies Priority Issues for International Response

(Reissued as received.)

ON INTERNATIONAL DAY OF DISAPPEARED, UN HUMAN RIGHTS

 

WORKING GROUP EXPRESSES SERIOUS CONCERN

 

(Reissued as received.)

GENEVA, 27 August (UN Information Service) -- On the occasion of the International Day of the Disappeared (30 August), the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances is issuing today the following message:

‘jews everywhere must feel that the United Nations is their home, too,’

Secretary-General tells seminar on anti-semitism

Daylong Programme Is First in Series on ‘Unlearning Intolerance’

UN REQUESTS MORE FUNDS TO MEET HUMANITARIAN NEEDS IN CHAD

 

NEW YORK, 27 August (OCHA) -- The United Nations is now asking the international community for $166 million to address humanitarian needs in Chad until the end of the year.  Its initial appeal, which it launched last March, was for $54 million.  Thus far, current contributions and pledges amount to $80 million, or 48 per cent of the revised requirements.