Committee on Elimination of

Discrimination against Women

626^th & 627^th Meetings (AM & PM)

WOMEN’S ANTI-DISCRIMINATION COMMITTEE URGES MOROCCO TO ELIMINATE STEREOTYPES,

RECONCILE HUMAN RIGHTS OBLIGATIONS WITH ISLAMIC LAW, CULTURE AND TRADITIONS

PRESS STATEMENT ON CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT

Following is today’s press statement on the Central African Republic by Security Council President Inocencio F. Arias (Spain):

KABUL HOSPITAL REBUILT BY UNFPA NOW PROVIDES LIFESAVING OBSTETRIC CARE

(Reissued as received.)

KABUL, 14 July (UNFPA) -- Mothers and infants in north-west Kabul have a far better chance of surviving childbirth, following the inauguration today of a modern hospital rebuilt and refurbished with support from the Government of Italy and UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund.

UNITED NATIONS, REGIONAL GROUP COOPERATE AGAINST DRUG AND CRIME FLOW

FROM WEST AND CENTRAL ASIA

(Reissued as received.)

VIENNA, 15 July (UN Information Service) -- The Secretary-General of the Economic Cooperation Organization  (ECO), Ambassador Seyed Mojtaba Arastou from Iran, paid a visit on Monday to the Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Antonio Maria Costa.

ANSWER TO PALESTINIAN PROBLEM LIES IN PERFORMANCE OF STEPS REQUIRED

TO IMPLEMENT ROAD MAP, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS

Following is the message by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the United Nations Seminar on Assistance to the Palestinian People in Geneva today, delivered by Peter Hansen, Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA):

UN SYSTEM NEEDS PAY, BENEFITS THAT CONTRIBUTE TO IMPROVED PERFORMANCE,

DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS INTERNATIONAL CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION

Following is the text of remarks by Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette to the International Civil Service Commission in New York today:

It gives me great pleasure to welcome you to the United Nations for the fifty-seventh session of the International Civil Service Commission.

ECOSOC HOLDS PANEL ON EFFECTS OF HIV/AIDS AND OTHER WIDESPREAD DISEASES

ON HUMANITARIAN RELIEF OPERATIONS

Panellists Stress That Prevention, Response to Disease Outbreak

Is Everyone’s Business And That Coordinated Relief Operations Save Lives

(Reissued as received.)

Committee on Elimination of

Discrimination against Women

624^th & 625^th Meetings (AM & PM)

ACKNOWLEDGING NEW ZEALAND’S IMPRESSIVE LEGISLATION, ADVANCEMENT OF WOMEN IN POSITIONS

OF POWER, ANTI-DISCRIMINATION COMMITTEE CAUTIONS AGAINST COMPLACENCY

SECRETARY-GENERAL CALLS AGAIN FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF ALAN JARA

ON SECOND ANNIVERSARY OF KIDNAPPING IN COLOMBIA

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

Secretary-General Kofi Annan left Switzerland in the evening of Monday, 7 July, and arrived in Maputo, Mozambique at midday on Tuesday, where he was due to attend the African Union Summit and hold meetings in the margins with a number of African leaders.