United Nations Forum on Forests

Organizational Session

1^st Meeting (AM)

UNITED NATIONS FORUM ON FORESTS BEGINS DELIBERATIONS

Forum Chairman Calls Scheduled Two-Week Session

Decisive Post-Rio Step Towards Sustainable Forest Management

DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL REVIEWS PROGRESS, SETBACKS

SINCE 1990 WORLD SUMMIT ON CHILDREN

Following is the text of remarks made this morning by Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette at the opening of the third substantive session of the Preparatory Committee for the Special Session on Children:

COUNTRIES MOST AFFECTED BY HIV/AIDS ARE LEAST ABLE TO PAY

FOR PREVENTION AND TREATMENT

SECRETARY-GENERAL WILL VISIT MIDDLE EAST NEXT WEEK

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

General Assembly Plenary

Twenty-fifth Special Session

6^th Meeting (PM) and

 Round-up of Session

GENERAL ASSEMBLY RENEWS COMMITMENT TO PRINCIPLES OF HABITAT AGENDA,

PLEDGES ACCELERATED DRIVE TO ENSURE FULL IMPLEMENTATION

The Thematic Committee of the General Assembly’s special session this morning heard the final 3 of 16 case studies presented since it opened on Wednesday, with today’s focus on poverty eradication and projects in Thailand, Peru and Morocco.

General Assembly Plenary

Twenty-fifth Special Session

5^th Meeting (AM)

NEGATIVE IMPACT OF CONFLICT, NATURAL DISASTERS ON SETTLEMENT POLICIES

STRESSED AT GENERAL ASSEMBLY SPECIAL SESSION ON HABITAT AGENDA

UNITED NATIONS FORUM ON FORESTS TO MEET AT HEADQUARTERS 11-22 JUNE

The United Nations Forum on Forests will meet for the first time as a new subsidiary body of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) at Headquarters from 11 to 22 June 2001.

UNITED NATIONS TELEVISION WINS AWARD AT CNN CONFERENCE

Ninth Time UNTV Has Been Honoured at Annual CNN World Report Conference

A news report produced by United Nations Television was recently honoured as the Best Science and Technology Report at the 12^th Annual CNN World Report Conference.