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.

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.)