GA/SM/241

CIVILIAN PROTECTION MUST BE REGULAR, CENTRAL ASPECT OF UN PEACE OPERATIONS,

DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS, IN STATEMENT TO SECURITY COUNCIL

Following is the statement of Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette to the Security Council meeting on the protection of civilians in armed conflict in New York on 23 April:

EXPERT GROUP PREPARING STUDY ON DISARMAMENT EDUCATION

HOLDS FIRST SESSION IN NEW YORK

SECRETARY-GENERAL CONGRATULATES HEAD OF WHO ON GLOBAL LEADERSHIP AWARD

Following is the text of remarks made by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the United Nations Association-United States of America (UNA-USA) Global Leadership Award Dinner in New York yesterday, honouring Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland, Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO):

It is an honour for me to join in this tribute to Dr. Brundtland.

Background Release

COMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS TO HOLD

TWENTY-FIFTH SESSION, 23 APRIL - 11 MAY

Committee Will Consider Reports of Venezuela,

Honduras, China: Hong Kong, Republic of Korea and Bolivia

(Reissued as received.)

Commission on Sustainable Development

Ninth Session

11^th Meeting (PM)

Commission on Sustainable Development

Ninth Session

10^th Meeting (AM)

SPEAKERS DESCRIBE EFFORTS TO IMPLEMENT SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT POLICIES,

IN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION’S SECOND INTERACTIVE DIALOGUE

SECRETARY-GENERAL CITES ‘CATALYTIC ROLE’ OF ESCAP IN MAKING GLOBALIZATION

POSITIVE FORCE, IN MESSAGE TO BANGKOK CONFERENCE

   Following is the message of Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the fifty-seventh session of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), delivered on his behalf of the Executive Secretary of ESCAP, Kim Hak-Su, in Bangkok on 19 April:

SECRETARY-GENERAL ‘DELIGHTED’ BY PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES’ WITHDRAWAL

OF LEGAL ACTION AGAINST SOUTH AFRICAN GOVERNMENT

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

Security Council

4311^th Meeting (PM)

SECURITY COUNCIL EXTENDS MANDATE OF BODY INVESTIGATING VIOLATIONS

OF ANGOLA SANCTIONS, UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTING RESOLUTION 1348 (2001)

The Security Council this afternoon extended the mandate of the Monitoring Mechanism on Angola Sanctions until 19 October and requested it to provide a supplementary report by that date.