ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL HEARS FROM GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS

ON HOW TO ADDRESS RURAL POVERTY

Introductory Statements Delivered by Under-Secretary-General

For Economic and Social Affairs, Vice-Chairman of Committee for Development Policy

(Reissued as received.)

LATIN AMERICAN, CARIBBEAN STATES MEET TODAY TO ASSESS IMPACT

OF UN ACTION PROGRAMME ON SMALL ARMS, LIGHT WEAPONS

United Nations Conference on the

Illicit Trade in Small Arms

8^th Meeting (AM)

CIVIL SOCIETY GROUPS HIGHLIGHT IMPACT OF FIREARMS INJURIES,

GUN-OWNERSHIP RIGHTS IN SMALL ARMS CONFERENCE DEBATE

CORRECTION

In Press Release DC/2792, issued on 16 July 2001, the statement of MARY LEIGH BLEK, Million Mom March, on page 10 should read, as follows:

Committee on Elimination of

Discrimination against Women

609^th Meeting (AM)     

ENTRY INTO FORCE OF CONVENTION ON MIGRANT WORKERS LANDMARK IN STRUGGLE

FOR HUMAN RIGHTS PROTECTION, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS

Following is the statement of Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the entry into force on 1 July of the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families:

SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES GLOBAL ACTION ON RURAL DEVELOPMENT,

IN ADDRESS TO ECOSOC HIGH-LEVEL SEGMENT

GENEVA, 30 June (UN Information Service) -- The following is the address given Monday morning, 30 June, by United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the opening meeting of the 2003 substantive session of the Economic and Social Council, in Room XIX of the Palais des Nations:

IBN KHALDUN CENTRE HAS KEY ROLE IN ADVANCING KNOWLEDGE, DEVELOPMENT

IN EGYPT, ARAB WORLD, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL

Following is the message by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the ceremony marking the re-opening of the Ibn Khaldun Centre for Development Studies, delivered by Chris Czerwinski, Representative of the World Food Programme and United Nations Resident Coordinator (a.i.) in Egypt, in Cairo today:

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES ‘CRITICALLY IMPORTANT’

ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN AGREEMENT, COMMENDS US ROLE

The following statement attributable to the Spokesman for the Secretary-General was issued on 27 June:

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES CEASEFIRE ANNOUNCEMENT BY PALESTINIAN GROUPS

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

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