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SC/7417
29/05/2002
Press Release
SC/7417


PRESS RELEASE BY SECURITY COUNCIL COMMITTEE ESTABLISHED

PURSUANT TO RESOLUTION 751 (1992)


At its nineteenth meeting, on 28 May 2002, the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 751 (1992) concerning Somalia exchanged views on enhancing effective implementation of the arms embargo.

SC/7416
29/05/2002
Press Release
SC/7416


PRESS STATEMENT BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT ON ERITREA AND ETHIOPIA


The following press statement on the peace process between Ethiopia and Eritrea was delivered today by Security CouncilPresident Kishore Mahbubani (Singapore):


Members of the Council heard a briefing by the Secretariat on the peace process between Eritrea and Ethiopia.

ENV/DEV/645
29/05/2002
Press Release
ENV/DEV/645


WATER SHOULD BE AT TOP OF JOHANNESBURG AGENDA, PREPARATORY MEETING

FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT CONFERENCE TOLD


(Received from a UN Information Officer.)


BALI, 29 May -- Water should be put “at the top of the agenda in Johannesburg”, Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange of the Netherlands, said this morning as the fourth and final Preparatory Committee session for the upcoming World Summit on Sustainable Development continued its work.

SG/SM/8250
28/05/2002
Press Release
SG/SM/8250


UN, WELCOMING COLOMBIA’S ELECTIONS, WILL EXAMINE ‘WITH CARE AND INTEREST’


PRESIDENT-ELECT’S PROPOSALS FOR UN ROLE IN NEW PEACE EFFORTS


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


The United Nations welcomes the fact that the Colombian people were able to exercise their right to vote on Sunday, 26 May 2002, and have acted decisively to elect the candidate of their choice.

ENV/DEV/642
28/05/2002
Press Release
ENV/DEV/642


NEED FOR GOOD GOVERNANCE, DEMOCRATIZATION, TRANSPARENCY, EQUITY


STRESSED AS MULTI-STAKEHOLDER DIALOGUE BEGINS


(Received from a UN Information Officer.)


BALI, 27 May -- A broad range of civil society and government actors in the sustainable development process took the floor this afternoon to express their views, as the fourth and final Preparatory Committee for the upcoming World Summit on Sustainable Development continued its work.