SPEAKERS AT CAPETOWN MEETING COMPARE SITUATION IN OCCUPIED

TERRITORIES WITH SOUTH AFRICAN APARTHEID

Participants Discuss Situation in Occupied PalestinianTerritory

(Received from UN Information Officer.)

south africa’s PRESIDENT MBEKI OPENS UNITED NATIONS AFRICAN

MEETING ON PALESTINIAN RIGHTS IN CAPE TOWN

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UNEP RECOMMENDS GLOBAL ACTION TO HALT DECLINE OF COLD-WATER CORAL REEFS

(Reissued as received.)

OKINAWA, 28 June (UNEP) -- Representatives from governments, non-governmental organizations, intergovernmental organizations and the world’s leading coral reef experts are meeting starting today in Okinawa, Japan, for a week of discussions and activities on protecting the world’s precious coral reefs.

Secretary-General urges full implementation of landmark

un treaty against transnational organized crime

Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message to the first session of the Conference of the Parties to the Untied Nations Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime delivered by Antonio Maria Costa, Director-General, United Nations Office at Vienna, in Vienna, 28 June:

SECRETARY-GENERAL instructs management to quickly address

personnel issues raised concerning oversight office

The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan in response to questions following the Secretary-General’s press conference on Friday and a New York Sun article today:

SECRETARY-GENERAL welcomes IRAQ ‘back into family

of independent and sovereign nations’

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

PRESS STATEMENT BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT

ON HANDOVER OF SOVEREIGNTY TO IRAQ

Following is the press statement on Iraqi sovereignty delivered today by Security Council President Lauro L. Baja (Philippines):

commission addressing food safety, quality opens one-week geneva session

(Reissued as received.)

GENEVA, 28 June (FAO) -- The Codex Alimentarius Commission convened its twenty-seventh session today, amid calls for the Commission to implement recommendations made by a Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO) evaluation.  Codex is the international food standards-setting body established by FAO and WHO.

REPUBLIC OF KOREA DELEGATE URGES GENERAL ASSEMBLY AD HOC COMMITTEE

TO CONCLUDE DRAFT TREATIES ON INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM

Humanity Deserves No Less, He Stresses

In Wake of Korean National’s Beheading by Terrorists in Iraq