Note to Correspondents

FAO REGIONAL CONFERENCE FOR EUROPE Set for 5 - 7 MAY 2004 at MONTPELLIER, france

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ROME/MONTPELLIER, 20 April (FAO) -- The twenty-fourth Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Regional Conference for Europe will be held at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure agronomique de Montpellier (ENSAM) in France between 5 and 7 May 2004.

directors of international criminal court’s trust fund for VICTIMS

attend inaugural ceremony at the hague

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THE HAGUE, 20 April (International Criminal Court) -- The President of the International Criminal Court, Judge Philippe Kirsch, welcomed today the members of the Board of Directors of the Trust Fund for Victims at the seat of the Court.

SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON EXTRAJUDICIAL EXECUTIONS EXPRESSES

CONCERN AT ASSASSINATION OF ABDEL AZIZ AL-RANTISI

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GENEVA, 20 April (UN Information Service) –- The Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, Asma Jahangir, issued the following statement today:

COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS ADOPTS RESOLUTIONS ON RIGHTS OF WOMEN

AND CHILDREN, SPECIFIC GROUPS, INDIGENOUS ISSUES

Requests Secretary-General to Establish Mechanism

To Address Complex Problem of Internal Displacement

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Commission on Sustainable Development                      

Twelfth Session                                            

DARFUR:  HUMANITARIAN NEEDS INCREASE AS RELIEF SUPPLIES DWINDLE

SUSTAINABLE ENVIRONMENT KEY TO ECONOMIC GROWTH, POVERTY REDUCTION,

SAYS FIRST ATLAS OF GREATER MEKONG SUBREGION

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Secretary-general saddened by deaths of two un correctional officers in kosovo

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

Secretary-general condemNs ISRAEL’s assassination of hamas leader

The following statement was issued by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Saturday, 17 April:

Parliamentarians have major role in helping countries recover from conflict,

says secretary-general in message to mexico city meeting

Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message for the 110^th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, delivered by Danilo Türk, Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs, in Mexico City, 18 April: