Security Council

4793^rd Meeting (AM)

SECURITY COUNCIL REITERATES NEED TO IMPLEMENT PEACE AND CEASEFIRE AGREEMENTS

IN Côte d’Ivoire, WITH VIEW TO ELECTIONS IN 2005

HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE CONSIDERS ISRAEL'S SECOND PERIODIC REPORT

ON COMPLIANCE WITH INTERNATIONAL COVENANT

(Reissued as received.)

GENEVA, 25 July (UN Information Service) -- The Human Rights Committee this afternoon concluded its consideration, carried out over three meetings, of the second periodic report of Israel on how that country implements the provisions of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

Round-up

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL SUSPENDS 2003 SUBSTANTIVE SESSION

Session Focused on Rural Development, UN Development Activities,

Coordination Issues, Humanitarian Affairs, Implementation of Summit Outcomes

(Reissued as received.)

ECOSOC ADOPTS TEXTS ON ECONOMIC, ENVIRONMENTAL, INDIGENOUS ISSUES,

SUSPENDS 2003 SUBSTANTIVE SESSION

(Reissued as received.)

GENEVA, 25 July (UN Information Service) -- The Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) this morning suspended its 2003 substantive session after adopting five resolutions and 13 decisions on economic, environmental and indigenous issues. 

ECOSOC ADOPTS RECOMMENDATIONS OF SUBSIDIARY COMMISSIONS,

OTHER RESOLUTIONS, DECISIONS

Adopts Texts on INSTRAW, Information and Communication

Technologies, Ad Hoc Group on Guinea-Bissau, Israeli Occupation

(Reissued as received.)

OVER 1 MILLION ANGOLANS STILL NEED FOOD AID, DESPITE PEACE

AND IMPROVED CROP PRODUCTION

Many Refugees and Soldiers Returning Home

(Reissued as received.)

SEABED AUTHORITY TO RESUME STUDY OF HYDROTHERMAL SULPHIDES AND COBALT CRUSTS, 28 JULY TO 8 AUGUST

(Reissued as received.)

PRESS STATEMENT BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT ON SITUATION IN LIBERIA

Following is today’s statement to the press by Security CouncilPresident Inocencio F. Arias (Spain) on the situation in Liberia:

Members of the Security Council expressed their concern for the continuing deterioration of the security situation and the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Liberia.

AFGHANISTAN EXPECTS BUMPER HARVEST -– CHRONIC UNDERNUTRITION REMAINS HIGH

Despite New Pledges, FAO Faces Funding Gap of $10 - 15 Million

(Reissued as received.)

ROME, 24 July (UN Information Service) -- Farmers in Afghanistan are about to harvest the biggest wheat crop in two decades, said Serge Verniau, Representative of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Kabul.

Background Release

SUBCOMMISSION ON PROMOTION AND PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS

TO MEET IN GENEVA, 28 JULY TO 15 AUGUST

(Reissued as received.)

GENEVA, 24 July (UN Information Service) -- The Subcommission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, the Commission on Human Rights' principal subsidiary organ, will hold its fifty-fifth session at the Palais des Nations in Geneva from 28 July to 15 August.