Note to Correspondents

PANEL ON TRANSNATIONAL ORGANIZED CRIME AND TERRORISM TO BE HELD ON 8 JULY

UN CONVENTION AGAINST TRANSNATIONAL ORGANIZED CRIME

TO ENTER INTO FORCE ON 29 SEPTEMBER

(Reissued as received.)

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL CONCLUDES GENERAL CONSIDERATION

OF OPERATIONAL ACTIVITIES FOR DEVELOPMENT

Importance of South-South Cooperation Highlighted by Report

Of High-Level Committee on Technical Cooperation among Developing Countries

(Reissued as received.)

ECOSOC HOLDS GENERAL DEBATE ON UN OPERATIONAL ACTIVITIES

FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION

Speakers Stress Need to Implement Targets of UN Conferences, Increase

Official Development Assistance, Make Development Programmes More Effective

(Reissued as received.)

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL HOLDS DIALOGUE WITH UNITED

NATIONS COUNTRY TEAM FOR SENEGAL

Discussion Focuses on Senegal’s Success in Fighting

Spread of HIV/AIDS, Joint United Nations Agencies Programme in Tambacounda

(Reissued as received.)

ECOSOC PANEL ASSESSES HOW UN AGENCIES IN FIELD

IMPLEMENT LESSONS LEARNED FROM EVALUATIONS

(Reissued as received.)

GENEVA, 4 July (UN Information Service) -- The Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) this morning held a panel which assessed the extent to which United Nations funds, programmes and agencies at the field level learned lessons from their evaluations and formulated proposals to improve the feedback mechanisms.

Meeting of States to Consider Action

Programme on Illicit Small Arms Trade

1^st & 2^nd Meetings (AM & PM)

Committee on Elimination of

Discrimination against Women

614^th & 615^th Meetings (AM & PM)                  

ANTI-DISCRIMINATION COMMITTEE URGES FRANCE –- ‘GLOBAL TRENDSETTER’ –- TO REMOVE

REMAINING OBSTACLES TO ACHIEVING WOMEN’S RIGHTS

SECURITY COUNCIL COMMITTEE CORRECTS NAME OF AN INDIVIDUAL TO ITS LIST

Security Council

4783^rd Meeting (PM)

SECURITY COUNCIL CONTINUES MANDATE OF UN IRAQ-KUWAIT

OBSERVER MISSION UNTIL 6 OCTOBER

Resolution 1490 (2003) Adopted Unanimously

The Security Council decided this afternoon to continue the mandate of the United Nations Iraq-Kuwait Observation Mission (UNIKOM) for a final period until  6 October.