SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES SPEEDY SIGNATURE, RATIFICATION OF STOCKHOLM

CONVENTION ON PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS

Following is the statement by Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the opening for signature of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (Stockholm, 22-23 May), delivered by Klaus Toepfer, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP):

ITALIAN COMPANY PROVIDES FOOTWEAR FOR UNITED NATIONS GUIDES

AT HEADQUARTERS AND IN GENEVA

The United Nations has accepted a donation of footwear for its international team of tour guides from the renowned Italian shoe company, Valleverde.  This is the first time that shoes have been donated for the United Nations guiding staff.

Committee on NGOs

2001 Session

24^th Meeting (PM)

NGO COMMITTEE CONTINUES CONSIDERATION OF NEW APPLICATIONS

FOR ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL CONSULTATIVE STATUS

Committee on NGOs

2001 Session

23^rd Meeting (AM)

NGO COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS TWO BODIES FOR CONSULTATIVE STATUS,

DEFERS FOUR OTHERS, LEAVES ONE PENDING

HUMANITARIAN ACTION IN 2001: A MID-YEAR REVIEW

FOR 19 COMPLEX EMERGENCIES

(Reissued as received.)

MUCH CAN BE DONE TO ASSIST NON-SELF-GOVERNING TERRITORIES, ASSEMBLY

PRESIDENT SAYS IN MESSAGE FOR WEEK OF SOLIDARITY

Following is the text of a message from General Assembly President Harri Holkeri (Finland) on the occasion of the observance of the Week of Solidarity with the Peoples of Non-Self-Governing Territories, beginning 25 May:

Resumed Fifty-fifth General Assembly                        GA/AB/3447/Rev.1*

Resumed Fifty-fifth General Assembly

Fifth Committee

65^th Meeting (AM)

FIFTH COMMITTEE WINDS UP DISCUSSION OF MONUC FINANCING;

DRAFT RESOLUTION ON UNIFIL INTRODUCED

Secretary-General Kofi Annan travelled to Massachusetts on Saturday afternoon, 19 May.

GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT, ADDRESSING SEMINAR ON GIRLS’ EDUCATION,

URGES EQUAL OPPORTUNITY FOR GIRLS ‘FROM VERY BEGINNING’

      Following is the text of a statement by General Assembly President Harri Holkeri to a seminar on “Girls’ Education:  from Rhetoric to Action”, 21 to

22 May: