DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL DESCRIBES FUNDAMENTAL CHANGES IN THINKING,

APPROACH TO UN SECURITY, IN NEW YORK ADDRESSS

Following is Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette’s address to the eighth United Nations Senior Management Seminar (UNSMAS) in New York, 7 June:

‘GLOBAL EMERGENCY’ OF HIV/AIDS REQUIRES RESOLUTE, SWIFT, COMPREHENSIVE RESP0NSE,

SAYS DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL IN REMARKS TO NEW YORK MEETING

Following are Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette’s remarks at a High-Level Global Consultation on linking HIV/AIDS with Sexual and Reproductive Health, in New York, 7 June:

GROUP OF 77 MARKS FORTIETH ANNIVERSARY WITH SPECIAL

MINISTERIAL MEETING, 11 - 12 JUNE IN BRAZIL

Top UN relief official welcomes release of aid workers in Sudan

NEW YORK/GENEVA, 6 June (OCHA) -- The United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator, Jan Egeland, welcomed today’s release of 16 humanitarian workers detained by the Sudan Liberation Movement/Army (SLM/A) in North Darfur, Sudan.  They were released this morning and appear to be in good health and were not harmed while being held by the SLM/A.

Sudan: cross-line operations reach 150,000 people in Nuba Mountains, Sudan

Seeds, Tools and Construction Materials Distributed by FAO

(Reissued as received.)

ROME, 7 June (FAO) -- Farmers in Sudan's contested NubaMountains have received seeds, tools and construction materials from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to rehabilitate agriculture and build dams, seedbanks and community nurseries.

UNEP LAUNCHES INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPETITION ON ENVIRONMENT

(Reissued as received.)

BARCELONA/NAIROBI, 4 June (UNEP) -- Professionals and amateurs alike are today being urged to unclip their dust caps and load up their cameras for the world's biggest environmental photo competition.

Cold-Water Corals Highlighted as New Global Conservation

Challenge on World Environment Day 2004

UNEP and Canon Also Launch 2004-2005

International Photographic Competition ‘Focus on Your World’

(Reissued as received.)

Ad Hoc Committee on Convention                             

 on Persons with Disabilities                              

18^th Meeting* (PM)

Secretary-General commends work of oas, cartercenter

on Venezuelan electoral process

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

UNITED NATIONS TO CONVENE BUSINESS LEADERS SUMMIT ON 24 JUNE