EXPERTS URGE INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION ON REHABILITATING MESOPOTAMIAN MARSHLANDS

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Fourth Committee

24^th Meeting (PM)

SPECIAL COMMITTEE’S PROPOSALS ON PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS

ENDORSED UNDER TEXT APPROVED BY FOURTH COMMITTEE

‘GREEN’ LAWYERS, SAHARAN WATER PROJECT AND GREAT APE CHAMPION AMONG

WINNERS OF 2003 UN ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMME AWARDS

IMPACT OF DRUGS ON CRIME, VIOLENCE AT FAMILY, STREET-LEVELS TO BE

FOCUS OF INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL BOARD'S 77th SESSION

(Reissued as received.)

VIENNA, 26 May (UN Information Service) -- The impact of drugs on crime and violence at the family and street-level will be the focus of attention by the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), which opened its seventy-seventh session today in Vienna.

INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL BOARD RE-ELECTS DR. EMAFO OF NIGERIA AS PRESIDENT

(Reissued as received.)

VIENNA, 27 May (UN Information Service) -- Dr. Philip O. Emafo, an international drug control expert from Nigeria, has been re-elected President of the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) at its seventy-seventh session in Vienna (26 May-6 June).  Dr. Emafo was first elected President of the INCB in 2002.

TRANSCRIPT OF PRESS CONFERENCE BY SECRETARY-GENERAL KOFI ANNAN AND SPECIAL

REPRESENTATIVE FOR IRAQ, SERGIO VIEIRA DE MELLO, 27 MAY

The Secretary-General:  Good afternoon, Ladies and Gentlemen.

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES DECISION BY ISRAELI GOVERNMENT TO ACCEPT ROAD MAP

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

INFORMATION AGE CREATES VAST OPPORTUNITIES, BUT ALSO GENERATES NEW ‘DIVIDES’,

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN MESSAGE TO BANGKOK CONFERENCE

Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message to the first Conference of Ministers on “Information and Broadcasting in Asia and the Pacific”, delivered by Shashi Tharoor, Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information, in Bangkok 27 May:

SECRETARY-GENERAL MOURNS INTERNATIONAL STAFF KILLED

IN PLANE CRASH FOLLOWING SERVICE IN AFGHANISTAN

The following statement was issued 26 May by the Spokesman for Secretary-GeneralKofi Annan:

PRESS STATEMENT ON BURUNDI BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT

Following is today’s press statement on Burundi by Security CouncilPresident Munir Akram (Pakistan):

Members of the Security Council:

-- Welcome the positive developments which have taken place in Burundi and further encourage the political actors and armed groups in Burundi to opt for dialogue and to eschew violence;