SG/SM/8271/Rev.1*

DIGITAL DIVIDE STILL YAWNS, SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS ASSEMBLY SESSION

ON INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES FOR DEVELOPMENT

Following are the remarks of Secretary-General Kofi Annan at the opening of the General Assembly plenary meeting on information and communication technologies for development, 17 June:

UN COMMITTEE ON PEACEFUL USES OF OUTER SPACE

CONCLUDES FORTY-FIFTH SESSION IN VIENNA

Discusses Ways, Means of Maintaining Outer Space for Peaceful Purposes

FORTY-FOURTH SESSION OF UNCC GOVERNING COUNCIL

TO BE HELD FROM 18 - 20 JUNE 2002

GENEVA, 14 June (UN Information Service) -- The Governing Council of the United Nations Compensation Commission (UNCC) will hold its forty-fourth session from 18 to 20 June 2002 under the presidency of Ambassador Sverre Bergh Johansen (Norway).

UN Senior Official visits Russian Federation

Special Committee on

Decolonization

7^th Meeting (AM)

SPECIAL COMMITTEE APPROVES DRAFT TEXTS ON TOKELAU,

Fifty-sixth General Assembly

Fifth Committee

60^th Meeting (AM)

FIFTH COMMITTEE, CONCLUDING SECOND RESUMED SESSION, RECOMMENDS

$2.6 BILLION FOR 12 PEACEKEEPING MISSIONS FOR 2002-2003

Committee Favours Concept of Strategic Deployment Stocks Proposed

By Secretary-General to Allow for Rapid Deployment of Peacekeeping Operations

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