VIENNA SYMPOSIUM WILL FOCUS ON UNITED NATIONS CONTRIBUTION

SECRETARY-GENERAL SADDENED AT DEATH OF FORMER SWEDISH AMBASSADOR GUNNAR JARRING

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES EUROPEAN UNION RATIFICATION OF KYOTO PROTOCOL

Following are the remarks by Secretary-General Kofi Annan at the luncheon hosted by Ambassador Inocencio Arias of Spain, on the occasion of the ratification by the European Union and the European Commission of the Kyoto Protocol:

SECRETARY-GENERAL APPOINTS RAMIRO ARMANDO DE OLIVEIRA LOPES DA SILVA

OF PORTUGAL AS NEW HUMANITARIAN COORDINATOR IN IRAQ

Secretary-General Kofi Annan has decided to appoint Ramiro Armando de OliveiraLopes da Silva of Portugal as the new United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator in Iraq.  Mr. Lopes da Silva will succeed Tun Myat, who was recently appointed United Nations Security Coordinator. 

Biographical Note

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ARAB BUSINESS COMMUNITY TO EXAMINE WTO AGREEMENTS IN BEIRUT WORKSHOP

ORGANIZED BY ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMISSION FOR WESTERN ASIA

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN JUNE 2002

The following is a tentative list of United Nations meetings scheduled to be held in June, including major meetings of intergovernmental organizations related to the United Nations:

Meetings continued from previous month:

EUROPEAN UNION PRESENTS 16 INSTRUMENTS OF RATIFICATION

OF KYOTO PROTOCOL TO UNITED NATIONS

SPEAKERS AT PREPARATORY MEETING FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT SUMMIT

REPORT ON PROGRESS IN NEGOTIATIONS

Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy Denied Accreditation

(Received from a UN Information Officer.)

Background Release

WOMEN’S ANTI-DISCRIMINATION COMMITTEE HOLDS 27TH SESSION

IN NEW YORK, 3 - 21 JUNE

Will Review Reports of Eight States Parties

NEW YORK, 30 May (Division for Advancement of Women) -- The twenty-seventh session of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women will take place at United Nations Headquarters in New York from 3 to 21 June 2002.