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COUNCIL PROPOSES SATYA NANDAN, CHARLES D’AWOL AS CANDIDATES

FOR ELECTION AS seabed AUTHORITY’S SECRETARY-GENERAL

Adopts Authority’s Budget as It Concludes 2004 Session

(Reissued as received.)

Fifty-eighth General Assembly                              

CONFERENCE ON DISARMAMENT HEARS STATEMENTS BY POLAND,

RUSSIAN FEDERATION, UNITED STATES AND SUDAN

President of Conference Summarizes Outcome

Of Informal Plenary on Prevention of Arms Race in Outer Space

(Reissued as received.)

Secretary-General condemns murder of five aid workers in Afghanistan

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

The Secretary-General was distressed and angered to learn of the cold-blooded killing yesterday of five staff of Médecins sans Frontières on the road between Khairkhana and Qala-I-Naw, Badghis province, Afghanistan.

ASSEMBLY CONTINUES DISCUSSION OF REPORT; POSTPONES

ACTION ON seabed AUTHORITY’S BUDGET TO TOMORROW

(Reissued as received.)

KINGSTON, 2 June (International Seabed Authority) -- The Assembly of the International Seabed Authority, on the eve of its final Kingston session, this afternoon completed consideration of the report of Secretary-General

Satya N. Nandan, deferring action on the Authority’s budget to enable one delegation to consult its Government.

Secretary-General DISMAYED BY VIOLENT ANTI-UN DEMONSTRATIONS

IN Democratic Republic of Congo

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

The Secretary-General is dismayed and deeply concerned at the news of violent demonstrations against the

Financiers tell Governments to ‘Get Real’ on Renewable Energy

(Reissued as received.)

BONN, 2 June (UNEP) -- A new study released today shows a $1.9 trillion potential for renewable energy markets in the next 15 years, but only if "real concerns" by the financial sector are addressed.

AGREEMENT TO BOOST ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS AT SUMMER OLYMPICS

SIGNED BY UNITED NATIONS ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMME, ATHENS

(Reissued as received.)

NAIROBI/ATHENS, 2 June (UNEP) -- An agreement aimed at boosting the environmental profile of this year's Summer Olympic Games has been made between the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Athens organizers.

press statement on Democratic Republic of Congo by Security Council president

Following is the press statement on the Democratic Republic of the Congo delivered today by Security Council President Lauro Baja (Philippines):

The members of the Security Council heard this morning a briefing by the Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping on the situation in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.