GA/COL/3079/Rev.1*

PRESSING DEVELOPMENT ISSUES STALL PREPARATIONS FOR SELF-GOVERNMENT,

CARIBBEAN REGIONAL SEMINAR TOLD

Role of Administering Powers

And Relationship with Locally Elected Officials Debated

(Received from a UN Information Officer.)

Biographical Note

NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF PHILIPPINES PRESENTS CREDENTIALS

(Based on information received from the Protocol and Liaison Service.)

Lauro L. Baja, Jr., the new Permanent Representative of the Philippines to the United Nations, presented his credentials today to Secretary-General Kofi Annan.

Biographical Note

NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF EQUATORIAL GUINEA PRESENTS CREDENTIALS

(Based on information received from the Protocol and Liaison Service.)

Lino Sima Ekua Avomo, the new Permanent Representative of Equatorial Guinea to the United Nations, presented his credentials today to Secretary-General Kofi Annan.

SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES ANGUILLA GATHERING TO WORK

TOWARDS COMPLETION OF DECOLONIZATION

Following is the message of Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the occasion of the opening of the Caribbean Regional Seminar on Decolonization and the observance of the week of solidarity with the peoples of the Non-Self-Governing Territories, at The Valley, Anguilla, 20-22 May:

LASTING PEACE AND SECURITY IN CENTRAL AFRICA STILL SLOW

IN ARRIVING, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS

(Delayed for translation of text, originally delivered in French.)

SEABED AUTHORITY WORKSHOP MAPS PROJECT TO MODEL POLYMETALLIC

NODULE DEPOSITS IN NORTH PACIFIC

(Received from a UN Information Officer)

      NADI, FIJI, 20 May -- A blueprint for clearer scientific assessment of polymetallic nodule deposits on the deep seabed of the Equatorial North Pacific Ocean has been prepared by a workshop of the International Seabed Authority (ISA), held at Nadi, Fiji, from 13 to 20 May.

Committee on NGOs

20^th & 21^st Meetings (AM & PM)

NGO COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS SUSPENSION OF CONSULTATIVE STATUS

FOR ‘REPORTERS WITHOUT BORDERS’

Also Defers Four Decisions on Consultative Status with Economic and Social Council

Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues

Second Session

13^th & 14^th Meetings (AM & PM)                   

SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES CARIBBEAN REGIONAL SEMINAR TO ADVANCE

DECOLONIZATION PROCESS IN 16 REMAINING TERRITORIES

Calls Decolonization Cardinal Goal,

True UN Success Story, as Three-Day Seminar Opens

(Received from a UN Information Officer)