Security Council

4753^rd Meeting (AM & PM)

SECURITY COUNCIL COMMITS TO WIDER, EFFECTIVE USE OF CHARTER PROVISIONS

AIMED AT PEACEFUL SETTLEMENT OF DISPUTES

In Presidential Statement, Cites Framework of Chapter VI;

Secretary-General Says Council Should Use Influence to Pre-empt Volatile Issues

Note to Correspondents

EXHIBIT ‘IN CELEBRATION OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLE’ OPENS

AT UNITED NATIONS HEADQUARTERS, 13 MAY

Committee on NGOs

11^th & 12^th Meetings (AM & PM)

NGO COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS ONE ORGANIZATION FOR CONSULTATIVE STATUS

WITH ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL

Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues

Second Session

3^rd & 4^th Meetings (AM & PM)                     

NEED FOR DATA, FUNDING, CLOSER COOPERATION WITH UNITED NATIONS

STRESSED IN INDIGENOUS FORUM DISCUSSION

EXPERT PANEL AT KYIV MEETING EXAMINES SITUATION

IN OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORY

(Received from a UN Information Officer.)

KYIV, 13 MAY -- The logic of “might makes right” could not make a just and lasting peace, Palestinian Authority Minister for Tourism Mitri Abu Aita told the second session of the United Nations International Meeting in Support of Middle East Peace this afternoon in Kyiv. 

UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL MEETING IN SUPPORT

OF MIDDLE EAST PEACE OPENS IN KYIV

(Received from a UN Information Officer.)

KYIV, 13 May –- There could be no military solution to the Middle East conflict, the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Anatoliy Zlenko, told the opening session of the United Nations International Meeting in Support of Middle East Peace in Kyiv this morning. 

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Fifth Committee (Resumed)

50^th Meeting (AM)

BUDGET COMMITTEE CONTINUES DISCUSSION OF PEACEKEEPING FINANCE ISSUES,

INCLUDING BRINDISI LOGISTICS BASE, CONTINGENT-OWNED EQUIPMENT

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Plenary

85^th Plenary Meeting (AM)

GENERAL ASSEMBLY APPROVES DRAFT AGREEMENT BETWEEN UN, CAMBODIA

ON KHMER ROUGE TRIALS

The General Assembly this morning approved by consensus a 32-article draft agreement between the United Nations and the Government of Cambodia on the Khmer Rouge trials.

SECRETARY-GENERAL ASKS SECURITY COUNCIL TO PREVENT FURTHER DETERIORATION

OF DIRE SITUATION IN BUNIA, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO

The following statement by Secretary-General Kofi Annan was issued on

10 May:

INDIGENOUS PEOPLES CONTINUE TO BE EXCLUDED FROM POWER, DENIED IDENTITIES, DISPLACED FROM LANDS SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL TO PERMANENT FORUM

Following is Secretary-GeneralKofi Annan’s message to the second session of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, delivered by Angela King, Assistant Secretary-General, Special Adviser on Gender Issues and Advancement of Women, in New York on 12 May: