UNITED NATIONS LAUNCHES CONSOLIDATED NATIONAL APPEALS

FOR HUMANITARIAN CRISIS IN SOUTHERN AFRICA

(Received from a UN Information Officer.)

The United Nations today launched a $611 million humanitarian appeal to help secure food, medicine and other relief supplies for 13 million people on the brink of starvation in Southern Africa.

UN ADVOCATE FOR CHILDREN AND ARMED CONFLICT TO VISIT AFGHANISTAN

Security Council

4578^th Meeting (PM)

SECURITY COUNCIL SUPPORTS JOINT STATEMENT BY QUARTET

ENGAGED IN FACILITATION OF MIDEAST PEACE PROCESS

Security Council

4577^th Meeting* (AM & PM)

STABILITY IN MANO RIVER UNION REGION TIED TO SITUATION IN LIBERIA,

SECURITY COUNCIL WORKSHOP CONCLUDES

Economic and Social Council

2002 Substantive Session

29^th and 30^th Meetings (AM & PM)

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL BEGINS 2002 SESSION'S GENERAL SEGMENT,

WITH FOCUS ON SUMMIT FOLLOW-UP, COORDINATION

Least Developed Countries, UN-Habitat,

Gender Equality, Haiti Assistance, Tobacco Control Among Issues Addressed

SECRETARY-GENERAL CONDEMNS TEL AVIV SUICIDE BOMBING

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL WEIGHS SUCCESSES, FAILURES OF DECADE OF HUMANITARIAN ACTION

Following is the message of Secretary-General Kofi Annan to participants in the panel discussion on “Challenges for Humanitarian Assistance in the Last Decade and into the Future.”  The message was delivered on the Secretary-General’s behalf by Kenzo Oshima, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator:

'EXCITING BUT CHALLENGING JOURNEY' LIES AHEAD, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL

ON FOURTH ANNIVERSARY OF ADOPTION OF ICC STATUTE

CONCERNED AT RECENT DEVELOPMENTS BETWEEN MOROCCO, SPAIN, SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES

PARTIES TO SEEK PEACEFUL RESOLUTION

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

WORLD SUMMIT ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT A ‘TEST FOR MULTILATERALISM

AND THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY’, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL

Following are Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s remarks to the "Friends of the Chair" of the Preparatory Committee of the World Summit on Sustainable Development: