Press Release

GLOBALIZATION’S CHALLENGES MAKE WELL-ORGANIZED STATES MORE NECESSARY, NOT LESS

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL TO GENEVA CONFERENCE

Following is the keynote address by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the Conference on Globalization and International Relations in the Twenty-first Century, delivered on 7 June at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva:

PRESS STATEMENT ON aFGHANISTAN DELIVERED BY PRESIDENT OF SECURITY COUNCIL

The following press statement on Afghanistan was delivered today by the President of the Council, Mikhail Wehbe (Syria):

      Members of the Council welcome the arrangements being made for the latest step in the Bonn process, the Emergency Loya Jirga, to start in Kabul on 10 June;

Note to Correspondents

SUMMIT ON STAFF SECURITY TO BE HELD AT HEADQUARTERS, 11 JUNE

To address the security problems faced by United Nations and associated personnel around the world, the fifth annual Summit on Staff Security will take place on Tuesday, 11 June, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., in the Trusteeship Council Chamber at Headquarters.

Round-up

COMMITTEE ON RIGHTS OF CHILD CONCLUDES THIRTIETH SESSION

Round-up

AFTER TWO WEEKS OF INTENSE NEGOTIATIONS, BALI MEETING SENDS IMPLEMENTATION

PLAN TO JOHANNESBURG FOR FINALIZATION

Final Preparatory Committee for World Summit

On Sustainable Development Concludes in Early Morning Session

(Received from a UN Information Officer.)

RIGHTS TO DEVELOPMENT, HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT STRESSED AS BALI PREPARATORY

MEETING CONCLUDES MINISTERIAL DISCUSSION

(Received from a UN Information Officer.)

WORLD SUMMIT POLITICAL DECLARATION SHOULD CONTAIN CLEAR, FORCEFUL,

COMPREHENSIVE COMMITMENT TO ACTION, PREPARATORY MEETING TOLD

(Received from a UN Information Officer.)

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL TO HOLD PANEL DISCUSSION

ON GENDER MAINSTREAMING, 11 JUNE

A panel discussion on “Gender Mainstreaming in the Functional Commissions of the Economic and Social Council” will take place on 11 June from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Economic and Social Council Chamber.

Committee on Elimination of

Discrimination against Women

555^th and 556^th Meetings (AM & PM)

WOMEN’S ANTI-DISCRIMINATION COMMITTEE TAKES UP PERIODIC REPORTS OF UKRAINE;

EXPERTS STRESS NEED TO INCREASE WOMEN’S REPRESENTATION IN DECISION-MAKING

Quotas among Temporary Measures Envisioned by Convention;

Secretary-General Kofi Annan arrived in Moscow from Kiev early in the afternoon of Tuesday 4 June.