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.

Special Committee on

Decolonization

4^th Meeting (AM)

SPECIAL COMMITTEE HEARS FROM REPRESENTATIVES OF GIBRALTAR, WESTERN SAHARA

Right to Self-Determination of Peoples of Both Territories Stressed

The Special Committee on Decolonization must be bolder and do more to ensure the right to self-determination of the peoples of Gibraltar and Western Sahara, it was told this morning by representatives of those Territories.

Fifty-sixth General Assembly

Plenary

100^th Meeting (AM)

GENERAL ASSEMBLY FILLS VACANCY ON CONTRIBUTIONS COMMITTEE

Pays Tribute to Joseph N. Garba of Nigeria,

President of Forty-Fourth General Assembly, Who Died 1 June

The General Assembly this morning appointed Michel Tilemans (Belgium) as a member of the Committee on Contributions from 6 June to 31 December 2002.

IMPORTANCE OF PROMOTING PARTNERSHIPS TO FOSTER ACQUISITION, USE

OF MODERN TECHNOLOGY HIGHLIGHTED IN BALI DISCUSSIONS

(Received from a UN Information Officer.)

PARTNERSHIP INITIATIVES SHOULD NOT SUBSTITUTE FOR GOVERNMENT COMMITMENTS

TO PROMOTE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, SPEAKERS STRESS

(Received from a UN Information Officer.)

DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL, AT BALI LAUNCH OF THIRD ‘GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT OUTLOOK’,

SAYS IT DEPICTS ENVIRONMENT AT RISK, BUT PROVIDES VISION FOR WISE USE

Following are the remarks of Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette at the political launch of the United Nations Environment Programme’s third Global Environment Outlook in Bali on 6 June: