Committee on NGOs

24^th & 25^th Meetings (AM & PM)

NGO COMMITTEE APPROVES THREE ORGANIZATIONS FOR CONSULTATIVE STATUS

WITH ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL, DEFERS FOUR APPLICATIONS

Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues

Second Session

17^th Meeting (PM)

NEED FOR FORMAL COMPLAINT PROCEDURES, EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATIONS STRATEGIES,

INCREASED FUNDING HIGHLIGHTED IN PERMANENT FORUM ON INDIGENOUS ISSUES

DIVERSIFICATION IS BEST LONG-TERM SURVIVAL STRATEGY OF PLANET’S SPECIES,

SAYS GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT

Following is the message by Jan Kavan, President of the General Assembly, for the International Day for Biological Diversity, 22 May 2003:

CARIBBEAN REGIONAL SEMINAR ON DECOLONIZATION GRAPPLES WITH ‘HISTORICAL ANOMALIES’ ON UNITED NATIONS LIST OF NON-SELF-GOVERNING TERRITORIES

Discusses Situations in Falklands (Malvinas), Western Sahara,

Gibraltar; Prepares to Draft Seminar Conclusions and Recommendations

(Reissued as received from a UN Information Officer.)

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Fifth Committee

54^th Meeting (AM)

IN FIFTH COMMITTEE, DELEGATES ADVOCATE PROVISION OF ADEQUATE RESOURCES

FOR INSTRAW, FILLING OF VACANT DIRECTOR POST

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Plenary

86^th Meeting (AM)

GENERAL ASSEMBLY ENDORSES EXTENSION OF TERMS OF OFFICE FOR FOUR JUDGES

OF INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL TRIBUNAL FOR RWANDA

Also Adopts Text on Global Road Safety Crisis

DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL REITERATES UN COMMITMENT TO AID IRAQIS, NOTES HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE DEPENDENT ON AVAILABILITY OF RESOURCES

Following is the text of remarks, as delivered, by Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette to today’s Security Council meeting on “Response to the Humanitarian Situation in Iraq”, in New York:

‘ENVIRONMENT FOR EUROPE’ GOOD EXAMPLE OF CROSS-BORDER ENVIRONMENTAL COOPERATION,

SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS IN MESSAGE TO KYIV CONFERENCE

Following is the message of Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the fifth Ministerial Conference “Environment for Europe”, being held in Kyiv, Ukraine, 21-23 May, delivered by Brigita Schmögnerová, Executive Secretary, United NationsEconomic Commission for Europe:

‘PEACEKEEPING BY ITSELF CANNOT END WAR, BUT IT CAN HELP PREVENT A RECURRENCE

OF FIGHTING’, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS IN PEACEKEEPERS’ DAY MESSAGE

Following is the message by Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers, 29 May:

Committee on NGOs

22^nd & 23^rd Meetings (AM & PM)

NGO COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS CONSULTATIVE STATUS WITH ECOSOC FOR 18 ORGANIZATIONS,

DEFERS REQUESTS OF THREE OTHERS