Commission on Sustainable Development

Ninth Session

4^th Meeting (AM)

SECRETARY-GENERAL CALLS ON GOVERNMENTS TO SHOW UTMOST RESTRAINT IN MIDDLE EAST

Following is the text of a statement issued today by the Office of the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

UN LEADERS DESCRIBE FREE PRESS AS ESSENTIAL FOR DEVELOPMENT,

IN JOINT WORLD PRESS FREEDOM DAY MESSAGE

Following is the text of a joint message, on the occasion of World Press Freedom Day (3 May 2001), from Secretary-General Kofi Annan; the Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Koichiro Matsuura; and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson:

Commission on Sustainable Development

Ninth Session

3^rd Meeting (PM)

ENERGY AND CLIMATE TO TOP AGENDA OF EARTH SUMMIT COMMISSION

Commission on Sustainable Development

Ninth Session

2^nd Meeting (AM)

SECURITY COUNCIL COMMITTEE NAMES RUF MEMBERS SUBJECT TO EXPULSION FROM LIBERIA

The Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1343 (2001) concerning Liberia recalls paragraph 2 (a) of that resolution, by which the Security Council:

“2  Demands that the Government of Liberia immediately cease its support for the RUF in Sierra Leone and for other armed rebel groups in the region, and in particular take the following concrete steps:

Committee on Charter

and United Nations Role

239^th Meeting (AM)

UNITED NATIONS CHARTER COMMITTEE STRESSES CENTRAL POLICY ROLE

OF GENERAL ASSEMBLY, AS IT CONCLUDES SESSION

Fifty-fifth General Assembly

Plenary

98^th Meeting (AM)

GENERAL ASSEMBLY ADDS SENEGAL TO LIST OF LEAST DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DECIDES

TO CONSIDER ESTABLISHING DECADE TO ROLL BACK MALARIA IN AFRICA

Also Adopts 25 Budget Committee Recommendations on Procurement Reform,

Peacekeeping Financing, Criminal Tribunals, Gratis Personnel, among Others

Background Release

COMMISSION ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AT HEADQUARTERS, 16 - 27 APRIL;