PRESS STATEMENT ON INSPECTION COMMISSION CHAIRMAN HANS BLIX

BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT

Following is today’s press statement by Security Council President Sergey Lavrov (Russian Federation) concerning the Executive Chairman of the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC):

PRESS STATEMENT ON SIERRA LEONE DIAMOND EMBARGO BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT

Following is today’s press statement on the Security Council’s review of the Sierra Leone diamond embargo by Council President Sergey Lavrov (Russian Federation):

Security Council

4768^th Meeting* (AM)

UN INSPECTORS FOUND NO EVIDENCE OF PROHIBITED WEAPONS PROGRAMMES

AS OF 18 MARCH WITHDRAWAL, HANS BLIX TELLS SECURITY COUNCIL

Says New Environment in Iraq, with Full Access and Cooperation,

Should Allow Establishment of Truth about ‘Unaccounted for’ Items

Up until they were withdrawn from Iraq on 18 March –- the day before

DIOUF:  SAFEGUARD ‘THE SOURCE OF FOOD SECURITY’

Water is Theme of World Environment Day 2003

(Reissued as received.)

ROME,5 June (FAO) -- On the occasion of World Environment Day 2003, celebrated today under the theme “Water -- Two Billion people are Dying for It!”, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Director-General Jacques Diouf called on the international community “to help safeguard the source of food security on our planet”.

UNITED NATIONS VIDEO TEAM WINS ‘BEST POLITICAL STORY’ AWARD

Note to Correspondents

YEAR OF FRESHWATER TO BE FOCUS OF 2003 WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY

OBSERVANCE AT UN HEADQUARTERS

On Friday, 6 June, World Environment Day (5 June) will be observed at United Nations Headquarters with a student-focused webcast event highlighting the International Year of Freshwater (2003) from 10 a.m. to 12 noon in the Dag Hammarskjöld Auditorium.

The Secretary-general arrived at Lausanne, Switzerland, via Geneva on Sunday, 31 May.

SECRETARY-GENERAL WARMLY WELCOMES MIDDLE EAST SUMMIT IN AQABA; PLEDGES PERSONAL EFFORTS TO ASSIST PARTIES IN ACHIEVING JUST PEACE

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS LIBERIA ‘TORN APART BY DISASTROUS CONFLICT’ FOR TOO LONG;

GHANA CONFERENCE AT LAST OFFERS HOPE FOR PEACEFUL RESOLUTION

Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message to the opening session of the Liberian peace conference, delivered by Abou Moussa, Representative of the Secretary-General in Liberia, in Accra, Ghana, on 4 June:

STATES PARTIES TO LAW OF SEA CONVENTION TO MEET AT HEADQUARTERS, 9 - 13 JUNE