Background Release

Background Release

SUBCOMMISSION ON PROMOTION AND PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS

TO MEET IN GENEVA, 30 JULY - 17 AUGUST

(Reissued as received.)

GENEVA, 27 July (UN Information Service) -- The Subcommission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, the Commission on Human Rights’ principal subsidiary organ, will hold its fifty-third session at the Palais des Nations in Geneva from 30 July to 17 August.

FIRST PERMANENT FORUM ON INDIGENOUS ISSUES TO MEET IN NEW YORK IN MAY 2002

Round-up

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL SUSPENDS 2001 SUBSTANTIVE SESSION

Four Weeks of Meetings Focused on Bolstering Development Efforts

of African Countries, Information Technology Transfer, Disaster Relief

(Reissued as received.)

SECRETARY-GENERAL CONDEMNS ATTACK BY TAMIL TIGERS ON COLOMBO AIRPORT

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

Security Council

4350^th Meeting (AM)

PREPARATIONS FOR KOSOVO ELECTIONS IN NOVEMBER HAVE PROGRESSED,

SECURITY COUNCIL TOLD

More Than 25 Political Parties Expected to Participate

COMMITTEE ON ELIMINATION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION TO MEET

AT PALAIS WILSON FROM 30 JULY TO 17 AUGUST

Committee to Consider Reports of Italy, China,

Trinidad and Tobago, Cyprus, United States, Sri Lanka, Viet Nam, Ukraine, Egypt

(Reissued as received.)

Committee on Inalienable Rights

of the Palestinian People

257^th Meeting (AM)

INTERNATIONAL PRESSURE MUST BE INTENSIFIED TO END SPIRAL OF VIOLENCE

IN OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES, COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN SAYS

CORRECTION

On page 5 of Press Release GA/PAL/872 of 25 July, the correct name of Libya’s representative should read ISA BABAA.

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ECOSOC ADJOURNS SUBSTANTIVE SESSION

Adopts Resolutions on Genetic Privacy, Colonial Peoples,

HIV/AIDS, Tourism Ethics, Disaster Reduction, Other Topics

(Reissued as received.)

Secretary-General Kofi Annan arrived in Rome in the late afternoon of Thursday 19 July.