ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL HOLDS PANEL DISCUSSION

ON WORKING TOGETHER FOR RURAL DEVELOPMENT

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ECOSOC CONCLUDES GENERAL DEBATE ON ITS ROLE IN IMPLEMENTING

TARGETS AND COMMITMENTS OF UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCES

Non-Governmental Organizations Highlight Importance

Of Civil Society Participation in Implementing Outcomes of UN Conferences

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Meeting of States to Consider Action

Programme on Illicit Small Arms Trade

5^th & 6^th Meetings (AM & PM)

BIENNIAL MEETING OF STATES CONCLUDES CONSIDERATION OF NATIONAL PLANS TO CURB

ILLICIT SMALL ARMS TRADE, HEARS PROPOSALS FROM CIVIL SOCIETY

Committee on Elimination of

Discrimination against Women

617^th & 618^th Meeting (AM & PM)                  

COMMITTEE EXPERTS, NOTING IMPORTANT PROGRESS IN JAPAN’S LEGAL FRAMEWORK,

WELCOME NEW LEGISLATION TO FOSTER GENDER EQUALITY

UNITED NATIONS OFFICE ON DRUGS AND CRIME DEVELOPS

MODEL LAWS TO HELP COMBAT TERRORISM

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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

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