Note to Correspondents                                 

Commission on Sustainable Development

Eleventh Session

3^rd Meeting (AM&PM)

SPEAKERS URGE INCREASED ASSISTANCE FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES IN MEETING WATER, ENERGY NEEDS, AS SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION CONTINUES

Holds Ministerial Debate, Regional Forum, Round Table;

ESCALATING CRISIS IN RURAL AFRICA MAIN CONCERN AT ECOSOC MEETING

OF MINISTERS, UN AGENCY HEADS IN NEW YORK, 30 APRIL

Economic and Social Council

2003 Organizational Session

9^th Meeting (AM)

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL ELECTS MEMBERS OF HUMAN RIGHTS

COMMISSION, OTHER SUBSIDIARY BODIES

The Economic and Social Council this morning filled vacancies on a number of its subsidiary bodies, including the Commission on Human Rights, to which it elected 24 members.

UNITED NATIONS AND EUROPEAN COMMISSION SIGN FRAMEWORK PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT

CÔTE D’IVOIRE PLUS FIVE APPEAL LAUNCHED IN ABIDJAN

DESPITE ACHIEVEMENTS IN CHEMICAL DISARMAMENT, NO ROOM FOR COMPLACENCY,

SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS STATES PARTIES TO CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION

      Following is the message of Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the First Review Conference of the States parties to the Chemical Weapons Convention, delivered by Enrique Roman-Morey, Director of the Disarmament Affairs Geneva Branch, at
The Hague today:

TRAGIC LEGACY OF CHERNOBYL WILL REMAIN FOR GENERATIONS TO COME SAYS

SECRETARY-GENERAL ON ANNIVERSARY OF NUCLEAR PLANT ACCIDENT

The following statement was issued 26 April by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the seventeenth anniversary of the Chernobyl accident:

Twenty-six April marks the seventeenth anniversary of the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine.

Security Council

4744^th Meeting (PM)

CONTINUED ENGAGEMENT OF INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY NEEDED IN TIMOR-LESTE,

SECRETARY-GENERAL’S SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE TELLS SECURITY COUNCIL

The Security Council could take satisfaction from its contribution to the progress in Timor-Leste, the Secretary-General’s Special Representative for that country, Kamalesh Sharma, told the Council this afternoon.

Committee on Information

Twenty-fifth Session

1^st Meeting (AM)

‘THE UNITED NATIONS MATTERS, AND ITS VOICE MUST BE HEARD’, COMMITTEE

ON INFORMATION TOLD, AS IT BEGINS CURRENT SESSION