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

PRESS STATEMENT ON KUWAITI PROPERTIES REPORT BY PRESIDENT OF SECURITY COUNCIL

Following is today’s press statement on the Kuwaiti Properties Report by the President of the Security Council Mikhail Wehbe (Syrian Arab Republic):

Security Council

4558^th Meeting (PM)

SECURITY COUNCIL EXTENDS MANDATE OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA MISSION UNTIL 30 JUNE

The Security Council this afternoon extended the mandate for the United Nations Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina (UNMIBH), due to expire today, until

30 June.

Security Council

4557^th Meeting* (AM)

LOYA JIRGA A TRULY REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLE OF AFGHAN SOCIETY,

SECURITY COUNCIL TOLD IN BRIEFING ON AFGHANISTAN

Under-Secretary-General Says Success Marked

AIDS AWARENESS HIGH, BUT BEHAVIOUR REMAINS RISKY, ACCORDING TO NEW STUDY

BY UN POPULATION DIVISION

HEADQUARTERS MEETING WARNS BURUNDI’S CRITICAL ECONOMIC SITUATION

ENDANGERS FRAGILE PEACE PROCESS