Security Council                                            SC/7343

Background Release

COMMISSION ON POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT TO MEET FROM 1-5 APRIL

Theme:  Reproductive Rights, Health with Special Reference to HIV/AIDS

Reproductive rights and reproductive health, with special reference to HIV/AIDS will be the theme of the thirty-fifth session of the Commission on Population and Development, to be held at Headquarters from 1 to 5 April.

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN APRIL 2002

The following is a tentative list of United Nations meetings scheduled to be held in April, including major meetings of intergovernmental organizations related to the United Nations:

Meetings continued from previous month:

Special Committee on

Decolonization

2^nd Meeting (AM)

SPECIAL COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS REMOVAL OF INDEPENDENT EAST TIMOR

Commission on Sustainable Development

Acting as Preparatory Committee for

 World Summit on Sustainable Development

3^rd Meeting (PM)

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT SUMMIT PREPARATORY COMMITTEE HEARS REPORT

ON RECENT ENVIRONMENT MINISTERS' MEETING IN CARTAGENA

UN ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMME CONFIRMS LOW-LEVEL DEPLETED URANIUM CONTAMINATION

IN SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO, URGES PRECAUTIONARY MEASURES

(Reissued as received.)

SECRETARY-GENERAL CONDEMNS SUICIDE BOMB ATTACK ON ISRAEL

AS 'MORALLY REPUGNANT', HARMFUL TO PALESTINIAN CAUSE

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

LEADING THEIR PEOPLES BACK FROM BRINK IS ‘DUTY’ OF ISRAELI, PALESTINIAN

LEADERS, SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS ARAB LEAGUE SUMMIT

Following is the address by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the Summit meeting of the Arab League, Beirut, Lebanon, 27 March:

SECRETARY-GENERAL CONGRATULATES PAPUA NEW GUINEA ON PARLIAMENTARY ENDORSEMENT

OF BOUGAINVILLE PEACE AGREEMENT

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL CONDEMNS MURDER OF TWO INTERNATIONAL OBSERVERS NEAR HEBRON

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