Press Release

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:

BRUSSELS FORUM EXAMINES MUSIC’S ECONOMIC POTENTIAL FOR POOREST COUNTRIES;

MUSICIANS CALLED ‘TRUE AMBASSADORS’ OF GLOBALIZATION

(Received from a UN Information Officer.)

HAMID GHODSE OF IRAN RE-ELECTED PRESIDENT

OF INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL BOARD

(Reissued as received.)

VIENNA, 21 May (UN Information Service) -- Prof. Hamid Ghodse, an international drug control expert from Iran and Professor of Psychiatry at the University of London, was re-elected as the President of the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) as it began its 71st session here today.

SECRETARY-GENERAL GIVES COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS AT FLETCHER SCHOOL OF LAW AND

DIPLOMACY, TUFTS UNIVERSITY:  'CONTAINING CLIMATE CHANGE: A GLOBAL CHALLENGE'

Following is the text of the commencement address delivered yesterday by Secretary-General Kofi Annan at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts:

It gives me great pleasure to join you for this very special day.