Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Plenary

82^nd Meeting (AM)

GENERAL ASSEMBLY TEXT STRONGLY SUPPORTS ‘KIMBERLEY PROCESS’ CERTIFICATION SCHEME, AIMED AT COMBATING USE OF DIAMONDS FOR FINANCING CONFLICT

Draft Resolution Introduced by South Africa;

International Certification Effort Went Into Effect 1 January 2003

INDICTMENTS FOR ‘CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY’ FILED IN TIMOR-LESTE

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

Security Council

4738^th Meeting (AM)

FAILURE OF UN PLAN TO SOLVE CYPRUS PROBLEM ‘DEEPLY DISAPPOINTING’

SPECIAL ADVISER ALVARO DE SOTO TELLS SECURITY COUNCIL

Briefs Council on Secretary-General’s More Than Three-Year

Effort; Propitious Circumstances, Fair Plan, and ‘Unique Opportunity Missed’

                                                            Note No. 5788/Rev.1*

[OCHA]

EMERGENCY RELIEF COORDINATOR VOICES SORROW OVER DEATH OF ICRC STAFF

MEMBER IN IRAQ; ALSO EXPRESSES CONCERN FOR MISSING NGO STAFF

SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON INDIGENOUS PEOPLE PRESENTS REPORT

TO COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS

Debate Continues on Human Rights of Women

(Reissued as received.)

EXPERTS ON MIGRANTS, INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS, SLAVERY

PRESENT REPORTS TO COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS

Commission Continues General Debate on Human Rights of Women

(Reissued as received.)

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

General Committee

6^th Meeting (AM)

SECRETARY-GENERAL ‘DEEPLY CONCERNED’ BY ISRAEL’S AIR ATTACK IN GAZA,

RESULTING IN DEATHS OF SEVEN PALESTINIANS

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

‘TO EDUCATE GIRLS IS TO REDUCE POVERTY’ SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL

IN MESSAGE TO GLOBAL EDUCATION CAMPAIGN EVENT

Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message for “The World’s Biggest Lesson” held during the Global Action Week of the Global Campaign for Education, at Headquarters 9 April:

To educate girls is to reduce poverty. That is the lesson that unites us today.