CEOs pledge no less than 20 per cent of Philanthropic budgets

to ICT for development

Microsoft Joins Hewlett Packard, Equitable Cardnetwork, Masreya,

MIH Group, Vivendi Universal as Signatory of CEO Charter for Digital Development

Fifty-sixth General Assembly

Plenary

101^st & 102^nd Meetings (AM & PM)

'DIGITAL DIVIDE' STILL YAWNS AS WIDELY AS EVER, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL,

AS GENERAL ASSEMBLY OPENS TWO-DAY SESSION ON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES

Senegal's President Cites Hopeful Signs of 'Digital Revolution' for Africa;

Speakers Say New Technologies Must Be Used to Reach Millennium Development Goals

Committee on Elimination of

Discrimination against Women

565^th and 566^th Meetings (AM & PM)

COMMITTEE EXPERTS COMMEND TUNISIA’S ‘GREAT STRIDES FORWARD’

IN PROMOTING EQUALITY BETWEEN WOMEN, MEN

AFGHANISTAN, NEIGHBOURING COUNTRIES JOIN COUNTER-NARCOTIC FIGHT

DRAFTING OF UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION AGAINST CORRUPTION RESUMES

Ad Hoc Committee for Negotiation of Convention

Against Corruption Holds Second Session in Vienna, 17-28 June

(Reissued as received.)

GREECE, FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA EXCHANGE VIEWS

UNDER PROVISIONS OF INTERIM ACCORD

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

Biographical Note

Secretary-General Appoints Sukehiro Hasegawa of JapaN

Deputy Special Representative in East Timor

Security Council

4554^th Meeting* (AM)

SECURITY COUNCIL EXTENDS MISSION IN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO

UNTIL 30 JUNE 2003, UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTING RESOLUTION 1417 (2002)

The Security Council this morning extended the mandate of the United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC) until 30 June 2003.

UN POPULATION DIVISION ISSUES UPDATED STUDY ON ABORTION POLICIES

United Nations Reports on Growing Importance of Partnerships with Business

‘Building Partnerships’ Book Shows How UN System, Private Sector,

Civil Society Are Working Together on Range of Critical Global Issues