UN CHIEF EXECUTIVES MEET IN MONTPÈLERIN, SWITZERLAND

 

Participants Express Strong Support

For Report of Secretary-General ‘In Larger Freedom’

(Reissued as received.)

UN/UNITAR FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMME IN INTERNATIONAL LAW

 

AWARDS 17 FELLOWSHIPS FOR 2005 PROGRAMME

 

(Reissued as received.)

Security Council

5161^st Meeting (PM)

Ad Hoc Committee on Scope of

Legal Protection under Convention

 on Safety of UN Personnel

AD HOC COMMITTEE ON SAFETY OF UN PERSONNEL OPENS CURRENT SESSION,

SCHEDULED FOR CONCLUSION ON 15 APRIL

 

The Ad Hoc Committee tasked with the mandate of strengthening the existing legal regime for security of international staff opened its 2005 session this morning.

GLOBAL FINANCE COMMUNITY JOINS WITH UNITED NATIONS TO TACKLE CLIMATE CHANGE,

FOLLOWING HEADQUARTERS INVESTOR SUMMIT

 

(Reissued as received.)

NEW YORK, 10 May (UNEP) -- An unprecedented grouping of pension funds, foundations, European investors and United States state treasurers have joined today with the United Nations to back a new call for urgent action by the global investment community to tackle the threat of climate change.

Secretary-General urges Myanmar to clarify position on road map,

 

allow return of special envoy as soon as possible

 

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

UN SECURITY COUNCIL TO VISIT HAITI, 13 – 16 April

All 15 members of the United Nations Security Council will travel to Haiti from 13 to 16 April to review progress achieved in areas such as security, development, the political transition, human rights, institution-building and the humanitarian situation.

BIG DURIAN PRODUCTIONS PARTNERS WITH UNDP, UNEP

 

TO PRODUCE MULTIMEDIA ENVIRONMENT SHOW

 

(Reissued as received.)

Commission on Population and Development

Thirty-Eighth Session

8^th Meeting (PM)

POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION SUSPENDS SESSION;

 

WILL ACT ON HIV/AIDS TExT NEXT WEEK

 

Unable to finish its programme of work for the thirty-eighth session due to time constraints, the Commission on Population and Development this evening suspended its thirty-eighth session until next week.

UN ‘Group of Friends’ meets in Geneva to review Georgia-Abkhazia peace process

The following, on the high-level meeting of the Group of Friends of the Secretary-General in Geneva, 7-8 April, was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan: