Security Council

4506^th Resumed Meeting (Night)

SECURITY COUNCIL REITERATES CALL FOR MIDEAST CEASEFIRE, ISRAELI WITHDRAWAL;

WELCOMES MISSION OF UNITED STATES SECRETARY OF STATE

PRESS STATEMENT ON CYPRUS BY PRESIDENT OF SECURITY COUNCIL

Following is the text of today’s press statement on Cyprus by the President of the Security Council, Sergey Lavrov (Russian Federation):

Security Council

4507^th Meeting (AM & PM)

ON LAST DAY OF 10-YEAR TENURE, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME

BRIEFS COUNCIL ON ROLE OF FOOD AID IN CONFLICT SETTLEMENT

Security Council

4506^th Meeting* (AM & PM)

FIFTY-EIGHT SPEAKERS ADDRESS SECURITY COUNCIL IN DAY-LONG MIDDLE EAST DEBATE;

STRESS NEED TO IMPLEMENT COUNCIL'S CALL FOR CEASEFIRE, ISRAELI WITHDRAWAL

CORRECTION

      On page 22 of Press Release SC/7352 issued 3 April, the speaker from Lebanon should be:  HOUSSAM ASAAD DIAB (Lebanon).

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SITUATION IN JENIN CAMP ALARMING, OTHER REFUGEE CAMPS TARGETED;

WIDESPREAD DESTRUCTION AND LOSS OF LIFE REPORTED

Note to Correspondents

REAL TIME INTERNET COVERAGE OF SECOND WORLD ASSEMBLY ON AGEING

NEW YORK, 3 April (Department of Public Information) – The United Nations Web site will provide real time multimedia coverage of the Second World Assembly on Ageing in Madrid at http://www.un.org/ageing/coverage.

UNITED NATIONS COMPENSATION COMMISSION PAYS OUT $995,381,059

(Reissued as received.)

Human Rights Committee

Seventy-fourth Session

2010^th Meeting (PM)

HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE CONSIDERS ESTABLISHING TASK FORCES TO STREAMLINE WORK

The Committee on Human Rights –- the body charged with monitoring implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights -– met briefly this afternoon to consider the feasibility of creating task forces to help focus its discussions and streamline its working methods.

Human Rights Committee

Seventy-fourth Session

2009^th Meeting* (AM)

HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE HEARS ANNUAL PROGRESS REPORT CONCERNING

INDIVIDUAL CLAIMS OF HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS

‘REGULAR PHYSICAL ACTIVITY IS ONE OF EASIEST WAYS TO IMPROVE AND MAINTAIN

HEALTH’, SAYS GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT, IN WORLD HEALTH DAY MESSAGE

Following is the message from Han Seung-soo (Republic of Korea), the President of the General Assembly, for World Health Day, 7 April 2002: