Note to Correspondents

BRIEFING ON SARS BY WHO COMMUNICABLE DISEASES EXPERT DAVID HEYMANN,

SCHEDULED FOR 15 APRIL

World Health Organization (WHO) Communicable Diseases Executive Director David Heymann will deliver a briefing on the newly identified Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), at a 15 April meeting co-sponsored by the WHO and the United NationsEconomic and Social Council (ECOSOC).

COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS BEGINS DISCUSSION OF RIGHTS OF CHILD

Special Rapporteur on Sale of Children,

Child Prostitution and Child Pornography Speaks

(Reissued as received.)

COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS CONCLUDES CONSIDERATION

OF INDIGENOUS ISSUES, HUMAN RIGHTS OF WOMEN

Deputy Foreign Minister for Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan Gives Address

(Reissued as received.)

Special Committee on

Decolonization

2^nd Meeting (AM) 

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Plenary

82^nd Meeting (AM)

GENERAL ASSEMBLY TEXT STRONGLY SUPPORTS ‘KIMBERLEY PROCESS’ CERTIFICATION SCHEME, AIMED AT COMBATING USE OF DIAMONDS FOR FINANCING CONFLICT

Draft Resolution Introduced by South Africa;

International Certification Effort Went Into Effect 1 January 2003

INDICTMENTS FOR ‘CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY’ FILED IN TIMOR-LESTE

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

Security Council

4738^th Meeting (AM)

FAILURE OF UN PLAN TO SOLVE CYPRUS PROBLEM ‘DEEPLY DISAPPOINTING’

SPECIAL ADVISER ALVARO DE SOTO TELLS SECURITY COUNCIL

Briefs Council on Secretary-General’s More Than Three-Year

Effort; Propitious Circumstances, Fair Plan, and ‘Unique Opportunity Missed’

                                                            Note No. 5788/Rev.1*

[OCHA]

EMERGENCY RELIEF COORDINATOR VOICES SORROW OVER DEATH OF ICRC STAFF

MEMBER IN IRAQ; ALSO EXPRESSES CONCERN FOR MISSING NGO STAFF

SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON INDIGENOUS PEOPLE PRESENTS REPORT

TO COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS

Debate Continues on Human Rights of Women

(Reissued as received.)