Press Release

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES SECURITY COUNCIL DECISION

TO ESTABLISH UN OPERATION IN BURUNDI

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES SUDAN’S ANNOUNCEMENT OF STEPS

TO FACILITATE HUMANITARIAN ACCESS TO DARFUR REGION

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

Security Council                                           

Security Council                                           

UNITED NATIONS HOLDS WORKSHOP ON BASIC SPACE SCIENCE IN BEIJING

Workshop Participants to Link

To NASA Laboratory in Pasadena on Space Mission Concept

(Reissued as received.)

Committee on NGOs                                          

WORKING GROUP ON ARBITRARY DETENTION TO MEET IN GENEVA

(Reissued as received.)

GENEVA, 21 May (UN Information Service) –- The United Nations Working Group on arbitrary detention will hold its thirty-ninth session from 24 to 28 May at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.

COMMITTEE AGAINST TORTURE CONCLUDES THIRTY-SECOND SESSION

Considered Reports of CzechRepublic, Monaco,

Croatia, Germany, Chile, New Zealand and Bulgaria

(Reissued as received.)

Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues                       

Third Session                                              

Fifty-eighth General Assembly