Press Release

LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN MEETING ON PALESTINE QUESTION OPENS IN HAVANA

(Received from a UN Information Officer.)

SECRETARY-GENERAL SUPPORTS CALL FOR COMMITMENT BY ALL HAITIANS

TO RESOLVE CURRENT POLITICAL CRISIS

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

DENNIS MCNAMARA APPOINTED DEPUTY SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE

OF SECRETARY-GENERAL FOR EAST TIMOR

The Secretary-General has decided to appoint Dennis McNamara as his Deputy Special Representative for East Timor.  Mr. McNamara will take over from

Jean-Christian Cady, who will be leaving at the end of June.

Preparatory Committee for the

Special Session of the General Assembly

 on the Children’s World Summit

4^th Meeting (PM)

PERSISTENT POVERTY, INADEQUATE RESOURCES ARE MAIN OBSTACLES TO CHILD DEVELOPMENT,

SPECIAL SESSION PREPARATORY COMMITTEE TOLD

Preparatory Committee for the

Special Session of the General Assembly

 On the Children’s World Summit

3^rd Meeting (AM)

PREPARATORY COMMITTEE WEIGHS PROBLEMS OF CHILDREN IN ARMED CONFLICT,

SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN

Resumed Fifty-fifth General Assembly                        GA/9878/Rev.1*

General Assembly Plenary

Twenty-fifth Special Session

3^rd Meeting (AM)

CONTINUING SPECIAL SESSION ON IMPLEMENTATION OF HABITAT AGENDA,

Preparatory Committee for the 2001

Special Session of the General Assembly

 on the Children’s World Summit

2^nd Meeting (PM)

Children's Participation in Legislative PROCESS, NEED FOR PROTECTION

FROM EFFORTS OF ARMED CONFLICT DISCUSSED IN PREPARATORY COMMITTEE

Round-up

COMMITTEE ON RIGHTS OF CHILD CONCLUDES TWENTY-SEVENTH SESSION

Releases Final Conclusions, Recommendations on Reports of Denmark, Turkey,

Guatemala, Côte d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Tanzania, Bhutan, Monaco

(Reissued as received.)

Preparatory Committee for the 2001

Special Session of the General Assembly

 on the Children’s World Summit

1^st Meeting (AM)

CHILDREN’S PREPARATORY COMMITTEE BEGINS FINAL SESSION, HEARS CALL BY DEPUTY

SECRETARY-GENERAL FOR PRIORITY ATTENTION TO CHILDREN’S NEEDS, RIGHTS