Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Fifth Committee (Resumed)

53^rd Meeting (AM)

IN FIFTH COMMITTEE, AFRICAN GROUP ADVOCATES ADEQUATE FUNDING FOR UN MISSIONS

IN SIERRA LEONE, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO

PENITENTIARY REFORM PROJECT IN AFGHANISTAN LAUNCHED

VIENNA, 20 May (UN Information Service) -- On 17 May, Andul Rahim Karimi, the Minister of Justice of Afghanistan, and Mohammad Reza Amirkhizi, the Representative of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in Afghanistan, signed a document on reform of the penitentiary system at a ceremony held in the Ministry of Justice in Kabul.

European Ministers to Adopt Targets for Reversing Destruction

Of Nature and Landscape by 2010

Kyiv Conference -- 21-23 May, International Day for Biological Diversity -- 22 May

GENEVA/NAIROBI, 19 May (UNEP) -- Ministers and senior officials from

55 countries will meet in Kyiv from 21 to 23 May for the fifth Pan-European Ministerial Conference “Environment for Europe”, the region's highest-level environmental forum.

UNEP URGES ASIA-PACIFIC TOWARDS CLEANER, GREENER DEVELOPMENT PATH

Indonesia Meeting to Examine

Promotion of Sustainable Consumption and Production Patterns

JAKARTA/BANGKOK/PARIS, 19 May (UNEP) -- According to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), there are now more “middle to high income” consumers -- those earning more than $7,000 per annum -- in Asia and the Pacific than in Western Europe and North America combined.

THEMATIC DISCUSSION ON TRAFFICKING IN HUMAN BEINGS HELD AS PART OF TWELFTH SESSION

OF COMMISSION ON CRIME PREVENTION AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE

(Delayed in transmission –- reissued as received.)

SECRETARY-GENERAL DISAPPOINTED AT FAILURE BY INDONESIAN GOVERNMENT,

FREE ACEH MOVEMENT TO IMPLEMENT CESSATION OF HOSTILITIES AGREEMENT

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL ‘PROFOUNDLY SADDENED’ AT DEATHS OF MILITARY OBSERVERS;

CALLS ON ALL CONGOLESE PARTIES TO RENOUNCE VIOLENCE

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL CONDEMNS SUICIDE ATTACKS AGAINST ISRAELIS,

URGES PROTECTION OF CIVILIANS

The following statement was issued by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan on 18 May:

SECRETARY-GENERAL CONDEMNS BOMB ATTACKS IN CASABLANCA

The following statement was issued on 17 May by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

The Secretary-General utterly condemns yesterday's bomb attacks in Casablanca in which it appears that at least 40 people were killed and more than 60 were injured.  He sends his heartfelt condolences to the Government and people of Morocco and to the families of all the dead and injured.

Security Council

4760^th Meeting (PM)

SECURITY COUNCIL EXTENDS TERM OF OFFICE FOR FOUR JUDGES

OF INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNAL FOR RWANDA

Adopted Unanimously, Resolution 1482 (2003)

Allows for Disposition of Cases in Progress

The Security Council this afternoon extended the term of office of four permanent judges at the International Tribunal for Rwanda, in order to allow them to dispose of a number of ongoing cases.