Meeting of States Parties

to Law of Sea Convention

70^th Meeting (AM)

STATES PARTIES TO LAW OF SEA CONVENTION CONCLUDE TWELFTH MEETING,

APPROVE $7.8 MILLION 2003 BUDGET FOR INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNAL

The States parties to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea concluded their twelfth meeting this morning, approving a $7.8 million budget for the International Tribunal of the Law of the Sea for 2003.

PRESS STATEMENT BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT ON EAST TIMOR

Following is the press statement on East Timor delivered today by Security Council President Sergey Lavrov (Russian Federation):

Security Council

4522^nd Meeting (AM)

SECRETARY-GENERAL CALLS FOR SECURITY COUNCIL APPROVAL

OF NEW FOLLOW-ON MISSION IN EAST TIMOR

Council Hears 23 Speakers; Suspended Meeting to Continue Next Week

History was about to confound the sceptics who had thought it improbable that East Timor would become a viable State in two-and-a- half years, Secretary-General Kofi Annan told the Security Council this morning.

PRESS STATEMENT ON MIDDLE EAST BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT

The following statement to the press was made yesterday evening by the President of the Security Council, Sergey Lavrov (Russian Federation):

Members of the Security Council closely follow the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question.

UNITED NATIONS MEMBER STATES POISED TO ENDORSE WIDE-RANGING GOALS FOR CHILDREN

Global Effort to Reduce Mortality, AIDS, Exploitation, and Poverty among Children

                                                            IAEA/1352

COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS CONCLUDES FIFTY-EIGHTH SESSION

Appoints Special Rapporteur on Right to Health; Establishes Working

Groups on Durban Declaration, Discrimination Faced by African Diaspora

(Reissued as received.)

Fifty-sixth General Assembly

Fourth Committee

23^rd Meeting (AM)

PROPOSALS, RECOMMENDATIONS OF SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON PEACEKEEPING ENDORSED

IN DRAFT TEXT APPROVED BY FOURTH COMMITTEE

Round-up

UNITED NATIONS COMMISSION ON CRIME PREVENTION AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE CONCLUDES

ELEVENTH SESSION IN VIENNA, 16 - 25 APRIL

(Reissued as received.)

SECRETARY-GENERAL, ACCEPTING REPORT ON CHALLENGES OF FUTURE PEACE OPERATIONS,

SAYS TOMORROW’S TESTS WILL REQUIRE DEEPER, MORE CONSISTENT COLLABORATION

Following are the remarks of Secretary-General Kofi Annan, as he accepted the report “Challenges of Peace Operations:  Into the 21^st Century”, from Sweden’s Foreign Minister at a Headquarters seminar on 25 April: