Press Release

RECORD NUMBER OF CHILDREN TO BE OFFICIAL DELEGATES AT UPCOMING UN SPECIAL SESSION

Unique Conference between World Leaders, Children

And Non-Governmental Organizations to Be Held at Headquarters from 8-10 May

FIRST-EVER GLOBAL GUIDELINES ADOPTED ON GENETIC RESOURCES; BIODIVERSITY CONFERENCE

WILL ALSO ACT ON FORESTS, INVASIVE SPECIES

                                                            DSG/SM/156/Rev.1*

DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL ADDRESSES ANNUAL CANADIAN BAR ASSOCIATION MEETING

Following is the text of the address of Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette to the annual meeting of the Canadian Bar Association in Montreal,

18 April:

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NUMBER OF COUNTRIES IN SOUTHERN AFRICA WILL REQUIRE SIGNIFICANT INCREASE

SECRETARY-GENERAL APPOINTS TOM KÖNIGS OF GERMANY AS SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE

IN GUATEMALA, HEAD OF MINUGUA

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL TO ADDRESS BOARD OF GLOBAL FUND

TO FIGHT AIDS, TUBERCULOSIS AND MALARIA

SECRETARY-GENERAL TO ADDRESS BOARD OF GLOBAL FUND

TO FIGHT AIDS, TUBERCULOSIS, MALARIA

Secretary-General Kofi Annan will address the Board of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria on 23 April at 12 noon in the Economic and Social Council Chamber at Headquarters in New York.  Accredited journalists are invited to attend.  The 23-member Board is holding its second meeting from 22 to 24 April in New York. 

Meeting of States Parties

to Law of Sea Convention

64^th Meeting (AM)

STATES PARTIES TO CONVENTION ON LAW OF SEA URGED TO SUPPORT EURO

AS CURRENCY OF REFERENCE FOR INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNAL

In a brief meeting this morning, the States Parties to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea were urged to support the euro as the currency of reference for the International Tribunal on the Law of the Sea.