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:

SECRETARY-GENERAL PRAISES CENTRAL AFRICAN ADVISORY COMMITTEE’S TIRELESS

EFFORTS FOR PEACE, IN MESSAGE TO KINSHASA MINISTERIAL MEETING

AFRICA’S ‘NEW SPIRIT OF DEMOCRATIC EMPOWERMENT’, CONTINENT’S SOBERING CHALLENGES

HIGHLIGHTED BY SECRETARY-GENERAL IN ADDRESS AT HARVARD’S KENNEDY SCHOOL

Following is the text of the Godkin Lecture delivered by Secretary-General Kofi Annan at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, on 24 April:

Meeting of States Parties

to Law of Sea Convention

69^th Meeting (PM)

LAW OF SEA MEETING APPROVES DECISION ON FINANCIAL ARRANGEMENTS,

PARTICIPATION OF SUBSIDIARY BODIES

Meeting of States Parties

to Law of Sea Convention

68^th Meeting (AM)

STATES PARTIES TO LAW OF SEA CONVENTION BRIEFED ON DEEP SEABED MINING

PROSPECTS BY EXPERT PANEL FROM INTERNATIONAL SEABED AUTHORITY

Director of Seafarer’s Rights Centre Also Addresses Meeting