SECURITY COUNCIL COMMITTEE ADOPTS LIST OF INDIVIDUALS WHOSE FINANCIAL ASSETS SHOULD BE TRANSFERRED TO THE DEVELOPMENT FUND FOR IRAQ

The Chairman of the Security Council Committee established by resolution 661 (1990) concerning the situation between Iraq and Kuwait wishes to inform as follows:

GOVERNING COUNCIL OF UNITED NATIONS COMPENSATION COMMISSION APPROVES

AWARDS OF OVER US$2.3 BILLION FOR COMPENSATION

(Reissued as received.)

OPENING OF FORTY-EIGHTH SESSION OF UN COMPENSATION COMMISSION GOVERNING COUNCIL

(Reissued as received.)

GENEVA, 20 June (UN Information Service) -- The Governing Council of the United Nations Compensation Commission will hold its forty-eighth session from 24 to 26 June under the Presidency of Ambassador Walter Lewalter (Germany).

SECURITY COUNCIL COMMITTEE ISSUES GUIDELINES TO IDENTIFY INDIVIDUALS, ENTITIES

WHOSE FINANCIAL ASSETS SHOULD BE TRANSFERRED TO IRAQ DEVELOPMENT FUND

The Security Council Committee established by resolution 661 (1990) concerning the situation between Iraq and Kuwait on 11 June 2003 adopted the following guidelines for the application of paragraphs 19 and 23 of resolution 1483 (2003).

UNFPA EMERGENCY MEDICAL SUPPLIES ARRIVE IN BAGHDAD

(Reissued as received.)

NEW YORK, 11 June (UNFPA) –- A new shipment of emergency reproductive health supplies, intended to meet the urgent needs of Iraqi women, arrived in Baghdad on 9 June.  The supplies, provided by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), were dispatched on a UNFPA/United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) convoy that crossed the border from the Iranian city of Kermanshah.

CHAIR OF SECURITY COUNCIL IRAQ SANCTIONS COMMITTEE SAYS PROCEDURES

CONCERNING FLIGHTS TO IRAQ NO LONGER VALID

The Chairman of the Security Council Committee established by resolution

661 (1990) concerning the situation between Iraq and Kuwait wishes to make the following statement concerning flights to Iraq:

EXPERTS URGE INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION ON REHABILITATING MESOPOTAMIAN MARSHLANDS

Biographical Note

SECRETARY-GENERAL APPOINTS SERGIO VIEIRA DE MELLO

AS HIS SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR IRAQ

SECRETARY-GENERAL PLEDGES UN SUPPORT TO IRAQ IN ‘COMPLEX AND DIFFICULT’

TASKS AHEAD, IN MESSAGE TO SECURITY COUNCIL

Following is the text of remarks, as delivered, by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to today’s Security Council meeting on “The Situation between Iraq and Kuwait” in New York:

DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL REITERATES UN COMMITMENT TO AID IRAQIS, NOTES HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE DEPENDENT ON AVAILABILITY OF RESOURCES

Following is the text of remarks, as delivered, by Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette to today’s Security Council meeting on “Response to the Humanitarian Situation in Iraq”, in New York: