Biographical Note

NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF Spain PRESENTS CREDENTIALS

(Based on information received from the Protocol and Liaison Service.)

Juan Antonio Yáñez-Barnuevo, the new Permanent Representative of Spain to the United Nations, presented his credentials today to Secretary-General Kofi Annan.

Disarmament workshops address issues of transparEncy,

small arms in ‘Nairobi declaration’ countries

Women in Front Line in Quest for Sustainable Development

New Book, Women and the Environment, Calls for Greater

Recognition of Women’s Role in Conservation, Poverty Eradication

(Reissued as received.)

NEW YORK/NAIROBI, 20 May (UNEP) -- Women are the world's great unsung conservationists, often outpacing men in their knowledge and nurturing of domestic and wild plants and animals.

United Nations Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice

 

Concludes Thirteenth Session in Vienna

WITH RETURN OF PEACE, TIME HAD COMEFORMANORIVER UNION COUNTRIES

TO ACCELERATE DEVELOPMENT, SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS CONAKRY SUMMIT

Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message to the Summit of Heads of State of the Mano River Union, delivered today in Conakry, Guinea, by Daudi Ngelautwa Mwakawago, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Sierra Leone and Chief of Mission:

secretary-general deeply concerned by disturbing turn of events in côte d’ivoire

Following is the text of a statement attributable to the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

Security Council                                           

House Demolitions in Rafah Resume

(Reissued as received.)

GAZA, 20 May (UNRWA) -- The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) is extremely concerned at concurring independent eye witness reports just received that the Israel Defence Forces have started to demolish houses in Rafah with their inhabitants still inside and prevented from exiting the buildings.

NGO COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS CONSULTATIVE STATUS WITH ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL

FOR SIX ORGANIZATIONS, DEFERS ACTION ON APPLICATIONS OF SIX OTHERS

During two meetings today, the Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) recommended consultative status with the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) for six NGOs and deferred action on the applications of six others.