Background Release

COMMISSION ON LIMITS OF CONTINENTAL SHELF AT HEADQUARTERS, 28 APRIL - 2 MAY;

TO REVIEW PROCEDURES IN LIGHT OF EXAMINATION OF FIRST SUBMISSION

CORRECTION TO AL-QAIDA AND TALIBAN LIST

FOR SECURITY COUNCIL 1267 COMMITTEE

On 25 April 2003 the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1267 (1999) made the following technical corrections to its list of individuals and entities belonging to or associated with the Taliban and the
Al-Qaida organization (Al-Qaida section):  additions have been underlined and deletions appear as strikethrough text.

UNITED NATIONS ISSUES ‘HANDBOOK OF STATISTICAL ORGANIZATIONS:

Round-up

COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS CONCLUDES FIFTY-NINTH SESSION; CREATES EXPERT POST

FOR LIBERIA; REQUESTS EXPERT FOR AFGHANISTAN

Also Calls for Establishment of Human Rights Office

In Haiti; Ends Mandate of Special Rapporteur on Situation in Sudan

(Reissued as received.)

COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS ADOPTS RESOLUTION ON SITUATION IN IRAQ;

CONCLUDES SUBSTANTIVE WORK

Also Approves Measures on Right to Development, Rights of Child, Indigenous Issues

(Reissued as received.)

COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS APPROVES STATEMENTS ON HAITI, COLOMBIA;

RESOLUTIONS ON AFGHANISTAN, SOMALIA, CAMBODIA, SIERRA LEONE

Other Measures Adopted on Promotion and Protection

of Human Rights, Effective Functioning of Human Rights Mechanisms

(Reissued as received.)

AFR/609

IHA/778

SECRETARY-GENERAL’S HUMANITARIAN COORDINATOR FOR CÔTE D’IVOIRE DEEPLY CONCERNED ATREPORTED CIVILIAN CASUALTIES FROM FIGHTING, HELICOPTER ATTACKS

United Nations   Nations Unies

Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs [OCHA]

UN, BRAZIL TO ADDRESS URBAN INSECURITY

(Reissued as received.)

UN, ASEAN FORGE PARTNERSHIP AGAINST DRUGS AND CRIME

(Reissued as received.)

Secretary-General Kofi Annan arrived in Austria from Greece on Monday, 21 April 2003.