Committee on Elimination of

Discrimination against Women

559^th & 560^th Meetings (AM & PM)

EXPERTS PRAISE BELGIUM'S INNOVATIVE PROMOTION OF GENDER EQUALITY,

URGE COORDINATION OF ACTION BY COUNTRY'S FEDERATED BODIES

ANTI-DESERTIFICATION CONVENTION KEY ELEMENT IN QUEST FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT,

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL ON WORLD DAY TO COMBAT DESERTIFICATION AND DROUGHT

Following is the message of Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought, which is observed 17 June:

Desertification and drought pose a worldwide threat with serious economic, environmental and socio-political implications.

‘NO TIME TO WASTE’ IF GOAL OF HALVING POVERTY BY 2015 TO BE REACHED,

SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS ROME FOOD SUMMIT

Following is the address by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the World Food Summit in Rome, 10 June 2002:

WORLD FOOD SUMMIT:  FIVE YEARS LATER -– SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS

PROGRESS IN FIGHTING HUNGER FAR TOO SLOW

Italian President Calls for Debt Cancellation for Poor Countries

Note to Correspondents

UN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL TO HOLD GRADUATION CEREMONY

IN TRUSTEESHIP COUNCIL CHAMBER, 13 JUNE

Special Committee on

Decolonization

5^th and 6^th Meetings (AM & PM)

DECOLONIZATION COMMITTEE URGES UNITED STATES TO HALT MILITARY MANOEUVRES

ON VIEQUES ISLAND, RETURN OCCUPIED LAND TO PEOPLE OF PUERTO RICO

Committee on Elimination of

Discrimination against Women

557^th and 558^th Meetings (AM & PM)

COMMITTEE EXPERTS LUKEWARM ON SITUATION OF WOMEN IN SURINAME,

AS REFLECTED IN THAT COUNTRY'S REPORTS

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.