PRESS STATEMENT ON BURUNDI BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT

Following is the press statement on Burundi, delivered today by Security Council President Adolfo Aguilar Zinser (Mexico):

IRAQ CONFLICT COULD BE DEVASTATING FOR RURAL ECONOMY, SAYS UNITED NATIONS

FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION

Emergency Appeal for $86 Million Launched

ROME, 3 April (FAO) -- Conflict could be devastating for Iraq's rural economy, with consequences on the country's capacity to produce food, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warned today in the wake of its recent launch of an $86 million appeal to help meet the emergency.

ISRAELI MILITARY FORCEFULLY OCCUPIES UN SCHOOL IN WEST BANK

Note to Correspondents

SPECIAL ADVISER ON MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS, JEFFREY SACHS, TO DELIVER RAFAEL SALAS MEMORIAL LECTURE AT HEADQUARTERS 4 APRIL

Jeffrey Sachs, the Special Adviser of the Secretary-General on the Millennium Development Goals, will deliver the eighth Rafael Salas Memorial Lecture, on population and development, at 4:30 p.m. Friday, 4 April, in the Trusteeship Council Chamber.  Media representatives are invited to attend.

NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS TELL COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS

OF FURTHER ALLEGATIONS OF ABUSES AROUND GLOBE

Official of Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe Gives Address

(Reissued as received.)

COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS HEARS FROM NGOS CHARGING VIOLATIONS AROUND WORLD

Chairperson of Sub-Commission on the Promotion

and Protection of Human Rights Delivers Report, Address

(Reissued as received.)

COMMISSION ON BOUNDARY BETWEEN CAMEROON, NIGERIA TO MEET IN YAOUNDE, 2-3 APRIL

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL COMMENDS ‘BREAKTHROUGH’, AS AGREEMENTS ON DEMOCRATIC

REPUBLIC OF CONGO ARE FORMALLY ENDORSED AT SUN CITY MEETING

Following is the message of Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the final session of the Inter-Congolese Dialogue, delivered on his behalf by his Special Envoy M. Moustapha Niasse, in Sun City, South Africa on 2 April:

Commission on Population and Development

Thirty-sixth Session

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

NOBEL LAUREATE AMARTYA SEN STRESSES EMPOWERING ROLE OF EDUCATION AND NEED

TO REFORM SCHOOL CURRICULA, IN ADDRESS TO POPULATION COMMISSION

Ad Hoc Committee on Assembly

Resolution 51/210

29^th Meeting (AM)

GENERAL ASSEMBLY’S AD HOC COMMITTEE ON TERRORISM RECOMMENDS

LEGAL COMMITTEE WORKING GROUP FOR TWO DRAFT TREATIES