Note to Correspondents

‘OUR PAST, OUR FUTURE’ WORLD HERITAGE PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION

OPENS TODAY AT UN HEADQUARTERS

ECOSOC ADOPTS TEXTS RECOMMENDED BY COMMISSIONS ON CRIME

PREVENTION, NARCOTIC DRUGS, STATUS OF WOMEN

Also Adopts Resolutions on UNAIDS, World Summit on Information

Society, Programme of Action in Favour of LDCs, and Genetic Privacy

(Reissued as received.)

UN COORDINATOR EXPRESSES DEEP CONCERN ABOUT DESPERATE

HUMANITARIAN SITUATION IN LIBERIA

(Received from UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.)

WORLD MARKET FOR CORPORATE HEADQUARTERS EMERGING

(Reissued as received.)

UN CONVENTION AGAINST CORRUPTION:  FINAL ROUND OF NEGOTIATIONS BEGINS IN VIENNA

Ad Hoc Committee for Negotiation of Convention

Against Corruption Begins Sixth Session, 21 July - 8 August

(Reissued as received.)

VIENNA, 21 July (UN Information Service) -- The final round of negotiations on the United Nations Convention against Corruption, the first such global instrument, resumed here this morning. 

SECRETARY-GENERAL APPOINTS NITIN DESAI AS SPECIAL ADVISER

FOR WORLD SUMMIT ON INFORMATION SOCIETY

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

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today appointed Nitin Desai as his Special Adviser for the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), which opens in Geneva on 10 December.

SECRETARY-GENERAL CONDEMNS RESUMPTION OF HOSTILITIES IN LIBERIA;

RENEWS CALL FOR FORCE DEPLOYMENT TO RESTORE CALM

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

The Secretary-General condemns the resumption of hostilities in Monrovia.  He calls on the parties concerned and, in particular, the Liberians United for Democracy and Reconciliation, to fully observe the ceasefire.

INFORMED OF COMMUNICATION OF REVOLUTIONARY ARMED FORCES OF COLOMBIA,

SECRETARY-GENERAL CONSIDERS IT TO BE POSITIVE

The following statement was issued on 19 July by the Spokesman for the Secretary-General:

The Secretary-General has been informed of the communication of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC-EP) and considers it to be positive.  He has always made clear that his good offices are available to the parties.

HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE REVIEWS THIRD PERIODIC REPORT FROM PORTUGAL

ON THE COUNTRY'S CIVIL AND POLITICAL SITUATION

(Reissued as received.)

GENEVA, 21 July (UN Information Service) -- The Human Rights Committee this afternoon concluded its one-day dialogue with a government delegation from Portugal on how that country was giving effect to the provisions of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

ECOSOC ADOPTS RESOLUTION ESTABLISHING AD HOC ADVISORY GROUP ON BURUNDI

Considers Issues Ranging from Sustainable Development, Human

Settlements, Forests to Statistics, Public Administration, Sanctions

(Reissued as received.)