SECRETARY-GENERAL EXHORTS GRADUATING CLASS AT NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY

TO FOCUS ON FIGHTING GLOBAL POVERTY

Following is the commencement address by Secretary-General Kofi Annan, delivered at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, on 21 June:

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Background Release

NEWLY ELECTED MEMBERS OF COMMISSION ON LIMITS OF CONTINENTAL SHELF

BEGIN FIVE-YEAR TERM

PRESS STATEMENT ON BURUNDI BY PRESIDENT OF SECURITY COUNCIL

Following is today’s press statement on Burundi by the President of the Security Council, Mikhail Wehbe (Syria):

The Members of the Security Council:

encourage the facilitation, Tanzania and the region to continue efforts aimed at helping the belligerents in Burundi reach a ceasefire agreement;

PRESS STATEMENT ON AFGHANISTAN BY PRESIDENT OF SECURITY COUNCIL, 21 JUNE

Following is the press statement on Afghanistan delivered on Friday,

21 June, by Mikhail Wehbe (Syria), President of the Security Council:

Members of the Council welcome the successful conclusion of the Loya Jirga and inauguration of President Hamed Karzai as Head of the new Transitional Administration;

TEN NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS APPROVED FOR ASSOCIATION

WITH DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC INFORMATION

SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR CHILDREN AND ARMED CONFLICT CONCLUDES RUSSIAN FEDERATION

TRIP; WELCOMES ASSURANCES ON VOLUNTARY RETURN OF DISPLACED CHECHEN POPULATIONS

UNITED NATIONS MEETING IN SUPPORT OF PALESTINIAN RIGHTS

OPENS IN RABAT

(Received from a UN Information Officer.)

Special Committee on

Decolonization

9^th Meeting (AM)

SPECIAL COMMITTEE UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTS TEXT URGING UN AGENCIES

TO PROVIDE ASSISTANCE TO NON-SELF-GOVERNING TERRITORIES

Committee Also Adopts Draft Report of Pacific Regional Seminar

Committee on Elimination of

Discrimination against Women

567^th Meeting (PM)

COMMITTEE ON ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN

CONCLUDES TWENTY-SEVENTH SESSION

Country Reports of Seven States Parties Considered; Provisional Agenda

For Extraordinary August Session, Twenty-Eighth Regular Session Adopted