SECRETARY-GENERAL CONGRATULATES PEOPLE OF SIERRA LEONE ON ‘SPIRIT OF MUTUAL

RESPECT AND RECONCILIATION’ IN YESTERDAY’S ELECTIONS

Appeals for Continued Calm, Restraint

As Election Results are Collated and Announced

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL APPEALS FOR RESOURCES TO RESPOND TO VITAL NEEDS

OF DISPLACED, VULNERABLE PERSONS IN LIBERIA

Condemns Attempts by Armed Factions to Take Power by Force

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

PRESS STATEMENT ON SIERRA LEONE BY PRESIDENT OF SECURITY COUNCIL

Following is today’s press statement on Sierra Leone by the President of the Security Council, Kishore Mahbubani (Singapore):

Members of the Council welcomed the peaceful conduct of the Sierra Leone presidential and parliamentary elections yesterday.  They also noted the role of the United Kingdom and the United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL) in bringing this about.

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PRESS STATEMENT ON LIBERIA BY PRESIDENT OF SECURITY COUNCIL

Following is the text of today’s press statement on Liberia by the President of the Security Council, Kishore Mahbubani (Singapore):

Members of the Council received a briefing by Youssef Mahmoud, Director of the Africa II Division in the Department of  Political Affairs, on the recent situation in Liberia.

Committee on NGOs

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

COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS 18 NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS

FOR CONSULTATIVE STATUS WITH ECOSOC

THIRTY-EIGHTH SESSION OF INTERNATIONAL LAW SEMINAR

TO BE HELD IN GENEVA, 21 MAY - 7 JUNE

GENEVA, 15 May (UN Information Service) -- The thirty-eighth session of the International Law Seminar, which has been organized on the basis of General Assembly resolutions every year since 1965 by the United Nations Office at Geneva on the occasion of the annual session of the International Law Commission, will take place at the Palais des Nations from 21 May to 7 June 2002.

Committee on Inalienable Rights

of the Palestinian People

263^rd Meeting (AM)

SECURITY COUNCIL’S FAILURE TO IMPLEMENT ITS RESOLUTIONS ALLOWED ISRAEL TO BEHAVE

AS ‘COUNTRY ABOVE INTERNATIONAL LAW’, PALESTINE RIGHTS COMMITTEE TOLD

Fifty-sixth General Assembly

Fifth Committee

55^th Meeting (AM)                                           

SPEAKERS FAVOUR CONCEPT OF STRATEGIC DEPLOYMENT STOCKS TO SPEED ACTIVATION

OF NEW PEACEKEEPING MISSIONS

BOTH RICH AND POOR HAVE CLEAR INTEREST IN PROTECTING ENVIRONMENT,

PROMOTING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS

The following statement by Secretary-General Kofi Annan, entitled “Towards a Sustainable Future”, (The American Museum of Natural History’s Annual “Environmental Lecture”) was delivered by Nane Annan in New York today:

SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES INCORPORATION OF BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY

IN ELABORATION OF TRADE, ECONOMIC POLICIES

Following is the message of Secretary-General Kofi Annan marking the International Day for Biological Diversity, 22 May: