PREPARATORY COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN OPTIMISTIC THAT SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

IMPLEMENTATION PLAN WILL BE FINALIZED IN BALI

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Committee on Elimination of

Discrimination against Women

Twenty-seventh Session

550^th Meeting (AM)

ACCEPTING UKRAINIAN AWARD, SECRETARY-GENERAL CONGRATULATES COUNTRY

ON PATH TAKEN SINCE INDEPENDENCE

Following are the remarks of Secretary-General Kofi Annan on receiving the Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise in Kiev, Ukraine, on 3 June:

You have truly honoured me by giving me this order.  I know that Yaroslav the Wise is one of your country’s most respected historical figures -- and I shall certainly wear his order with respect.

PARTNERSHIP, RESOURCES, ACTION BY YOUNG NEEDED IN AIDS FIGHT,

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL TO UKRAINE AIDS COMMISSION

Following are the remarks of Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the partnership meeting with the Inter-Ministerial AIDS Commission of Ukraine in Kiev on 3 June:

SECRETARY-GENERAL DEPLORES RECENT PUBLIC ATTACKS AGAINST MISSION

IN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL SADDENED BY DEATH OF NIGERIAN DIPLOMAT JOSEPH GARBA,

WHO SERVED AS PRESIDENT OF FORTY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL VISITS MEMORIAL TO UKRAINIAN JEWS KILLED IN 1941 AT BABI YAR;

VOWS ALL HIS POWER ‘TO FIGHT THE HATRED AND EVIL THAT SO DISFIGURE OUR WORLD’

Following are the remarks of Secretary-General Kofi Annan on 3 June at the monument to Ukrainian Jews killed in 1941 at Babi Yar:

PRESIDENT OF UNITED NATIONS SECURITY COUNCIL AND CHAIRMAN

OF MILITARY STAFF COMMITTEE IN JUNE

In accordance with the principle of alphabetical rotation, the following are the President of the United Nations Security Council and Chairman of the Military Staff Committee for June:

Security Council

Special Committee on

Decolonization

3^rd Meeting (AM)

SPECIAL COMMITTEE APPROVES THREE TEXTS ON:  VISITING MISSIONS TO TERRITORIES;

DISSEMINATION OF DECOLONIZATION INFORMATION; INFORMATION FROM TERRITORIES

Committee Chairman, DPI Director,

Department of Political Affairs Hail Independent East Timor

FINANCING, TRADE, LAUNCHING OF NEW PROGRAMMES AMONG UNRESOLVED

ISSUES AS SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT NEGOTIATIONS CONTINUE

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