IMPORTANCE OF INFRASTRUCTURE TO DEVELOPMENT, POVERTY REDUCTION

STRESSED AT THEMATIC SESSION OF BRUSSELS CONFERENCE

(Received from a UN Information Officer.)

BRUSSELS, 21 May -- Building infrastructure –- roads, bridges, communications -- was a means for wider development ends, such as poverty reduction, although that link was often still poorly understood, the Third United Nations Conference on Least Developed Countries was told this morning.

 WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME FEEDS AFGHANS AT JALOZAI CAMP

(Reissued as received.)

ISLAMABAD, 21 May (WFP) -- The World Food Programme today started distributing food supplies to more than 70,000 poor Afghans who have been living in a squalid camp near Peshawar, Pakistan, for the past five months.

INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL BOARD TO FOCUS ON HIGH TECH

CHALLENGES TO DRUG LAW ENFORCEMENT

(Reissued as received.)

Round-up

CORRUPTION CENTRAL THEME OF CRIME COMMISSION MEETING

(Reissued as received.)

On Wednesday, 16 May, Secretary-General Kofi Annan departed Moscow to Geneva, stopping overnight in Amsterdam.

SECRETARY-GENERAL DEEPLY DISTURBED BY DISPROPORTIONATE ISRAELI RESPONSE

TO APPALLING TERRORIST ATTACK

Following is the text of a statement made today by Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the escalation of violence in the Middle East:

I am deeply disturbed by the disproportionate Israeli response to today's appalling terrorist attack in Netanya.

NINTH SESSION OF COMMISSION ON LIMITS OF CONTINENTAL SHELF WILL TAKE UP ISSUES

OF TRAINING TO ASSIST DEVELOPING STATES

Commission Will Also Review Internal Procedures

In Handling Submissions for Extended Continental Shelf

Meeting of States Parties

To Law of the Sea Convention

60^th Meeting (PM)

STATES PARTIES TO LAW OF SEA CONVENTION RESOLVE ISSUE OF 10-YEAR TIME PERIOD

FOR SUBMISSION OF CONTINENTAL SHELF DATA

At Eleventh Meeting’s Final Session,

Delegates Decide on 13 May 1999 as Starting Date

Meeting of States Parties

To Law of Sea Convention

57^th Meeting (PM)

LAW OF SEA PARTIES ELECT NEW JUDGE FOR TRIBUNAL,

DISCUSS CONTINENTAL SHELF DRAFT

CORRECTION

The statement by Iceland’s delegate to the Eleventh Meeting of States Parties to the Convention on the Law of the Sea, which appeared in Press Release SEA/1705 of 16 May, should have read as follows: