SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS TURKEY’S CHILDREN’S FESTIVAL CELEBRATES DIVERSITY IN SPIRIT

OF FRIENDSHIP, PEACE, FAITHFULLY REFLECTING UN’S IDEAS

Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message to the International Children’s Festival, delivered by Jakob Simonsen, United Nations Development Programme Resident Coordinator, in Anatolia, 23 April:

Security Council

4742^nd Meeting (AM)

KOSOVO HAS ‘SOME WAY TO GO’ IN ESTABLISHING REPRESENTATIVE, FUNCTIONING

INSTITUTIONS, SECURITY COUNCIL TOLD

Provisional Institutions of Self-Government Hampered

FAO/WHO LAUNCH EXPERT REPORT ON DIET, NUTRITION AND PREVENTION OF CHRONIC DISEASES

Close Cooperation between Health and Agriculture

Sectors Needed to Address Growing Global Burden of Chronic Diseases

(Reissued as received.)

International Criminal Court

Assembly of States Parties

First Session (Resumed)

12^th Meeting (AM)

STATES PARTIES TO INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT CONCLUDE SESSION

WITH ADOPTION OF DRAFT REPORT

COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS ADOPTS MEASURES ON CIVIL

AND POLITICAL RIGHTS, WOMEN, ‘SPECIFIC GROUPS’

Extends Mandates of Special Rapporteurs

on Independence of Judges and Lawyers, Violence against Women

(Reissued as received.)

COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS ADOPTS 10 RESOLUTIONS

ON RACISM, CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS

Commission Extends Mandate of Working

Group on Arbitrary Detention for Three Years

(Reissued as received.)

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SECRETARY-GENERAL’S HUMANITARIAN ENVOY FOR CÔTE D’IVOIRE

IN ABIDJAN TO LAUNCH NEW APPEAL

Secretary-General Kofi Annan departed New York in the evening of Monday, 14 April, and arrived in Athens the following morning.

He was invited by the European Union to address the European conference on Thursday, the 17th, and took advantage of the presence of European leaders in the Greek capital on Wednesday to hold a series of bilateral meetings.

International Criminal Court

Assembly of States Parties

First Session (Resumed)

11^th Meeting (AM) 

INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT’S PRESIDENT, NEWLY ELECTED PROSECUTOR

ADDRESS STATES PARTIES, OUTLINE COURT’S INITIAL CHALLENGES

National Audit Office of United Kingdom

UN LAUNCHES PLAN TO ADDRESS EMERGENCY NEEDS IN HAITI