UNITED NATIONS OFFICE ON DRUGS AND CRIME DEVELOPS

MODEL LAWS TO HELP COMBAT TERRORISM

(Reissued as received.)

SECRETARY-GENERAL EXPRESSES GRATITUDE FOR EFFORTS OF SPECIAL

REPRESENTATIVE MICHAEL STEINER IN KOSOVO

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

Special Representative of the Secretary-General Michael Steiner today completes his term as head of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK).

ESCWA TO CONVENE POST-WAR MEETING ON IRAQ IN BEIRUT, 9 - 11 JULY

BEIRUT, 7 July (UN Information Service) -– The Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) will bring together Arab and international experts in a meeting entitled, "Iraq and the Region after the War", from 9 to 11 July at the United Nations House, Riad El-Solh Square, Beirut, Lebanon.

UNITED NATIONS SEMINAR ON ASSISTANCE TO PALESTINIAN PEOPLE

TO BE HELD IN GENEVA, 15 - 16 JULY

Ad Hoc Committee on Indian Ocean

450^th Meeting (AM)

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL HOLDS PANEL ON ‘CONFERENCEIMPLEMENTATION:

COMMON GOALS AND COMMON CHALLENGES’

Panellists Stress Need for Implementation of Conference Outcomes;

Describe Action in Areas of Migration and Responding to SARS Outbreak

(Reissued as received.)

ECOSOC CONSIDERS ITS ROLE IN COORDINATED IMPLEMENTATION

OF OUTCOME OF UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCES

Debate Highlights Need for Integrated Follow-up,

Flexibility, Increased Political Will, Regional Cooperation

(Reissued as received.)

Meeting of States to Consider Action

Programme on Illicit Small Arms Trade

3^rd & 4^th Meetings (AM & PM)      

CALLS HEARD FOR MORE VIGOROUS INTERNATIONAL ACTION AGAINST ILLICIT ARMS TRADE,

AS FIRST-EVER BIENNIAL MEETING ON SMALL ARMS FOLLOW-UP CONTINUES

FAO SUPPORTS REBEL- AND GOVERNMENT-CONTROLLED AREAS IN SUDAN

WITH SEEDS AND TOOLS -– MORE ASSISTANCE NEEDED

(Reissued as received.)

ROME,8 July (FAO)-- For the first time, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has successfully delivered a substantial amount of seeds and tools by road to previously inaccessible rebel-held areas in the Nuba Mountains in southern Sudan, according to a statement released today.

Committee on Elimination of

Discrimination against Women

616^th Meeting (AM)