HIGH COMMISSIONER PRESENTS REPORT ON HUMAN RIGHTS SITUATION IN COLOMBIA;

URGES END TO PARAMILITARY LINKS

Commission on Human Rights Continues

Review of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

(Reissued as received.)

COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS TAKES UP ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS

Experts on Health, Education, Food, Foreign Debt, and Toxic

Wastes Speak; Deputy Prime Minister of Equatorial Guinea Gives Address

(Reissued as received.)

GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT HIGHLIGHTS ‘DIRE’ SITUATION CHILDREN FACE

FROM ENVIRONMENTAL THREATS IN WORLD HEALTH DAY MESSAGE

Following is the message of Jan Kavan (Czech Republic), President of the fifty-seventh Session of the General Assembly, on World Health Day 2003, observed on 7 April:

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NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF ITALY PRESENTS CREDENTIALS

(Based on information received from the Protocol and Liaison Service.)

Marcello Spatafora, the new Permanent Representative of Italy to the United Nations, presented his credentials today to Secretary-General Kofi Annan.

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NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF DOMINICAN REPUBLIC PRESENTS CREDENTIALS

(Based on information received from the Protocol and Liaison Service)

Marino de Jesús Villanueva Callot, the new Permanent Representative of the Dominican Republic, presented his credentials today to Secretary-General Kofi Annan.

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PHILIPPE DE SEYNES, ‘INTELLECTUAL GIANT’, SHAPER OF UNITED NATIONS ECONOMIC,

SOCIAL OPERATIONS, DIES IN PARIS AT AGE 93

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

Philippe de Seynes, one of the United Nations’ most distinguished senior officials, passed away yesterday in Paris at age 93.

PRESS STATEMENT ON IRAQ HUMANITARIAN SITUATION BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT

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

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):