SECRETARY-GENERAL APPOINTS FIVE EMINENT PERSONS TO FOLLOW UP

ON WORLD CONFERENCE AGAINST RACISM

(Delayed for technical reasons.)

GENEVA, 16 June (UN Information Service) -- The Secretary-General appointed today five independent eminent experts to follow up, together with the High Commissioner for Human Rights, on the implementation of the Declaration and Programme of Action of the 2001 World Conference against Racism.

NEW REPORT MAPS FISTULA IN AFRICA

Finds Hidden Condition Widespread

(Reissued as received.)

CONFERENCE ON RIGHT TO FOOD AND COSTS OF HUNGER (20-21 JUNE 2003)

FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf Will Open Meeting

ROME, 18 June (FAO) -- In technical cooperation with the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), an International Conference on the Right to Food and the Costs of Hunger will take place on 20 and 21 June 2003 at Sala di Porta Castello, via di Porta Castello 44, in Rome.

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Plenary

90^th Meeting* (PM)

GENERAL ASSEMBLY ADOPTS PEACEKEEPING BUDGET OF $2.17 BILLION,

Special Committee on

Decolonization

9^th Meeting (AM)

DECOLONIZATION COMMITTEE ADOPTS REPORT ON CARIBBEAN REGIONAL SEMINAR,

TEXT ON UN AGENCY ASSISTANCE TO NON-SELF-GOVERNING TERRITORIES

The Special Committee on Decolonization this morning adopted the report of its Caribbean Regional Seminar, held at The Valley, Anguilla from 20 to 22 May.

SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN MESSAGE TO ST. PETERSBURG FORUM, SAYS COMMONWEALTH OF INDEPENDENT STATES STARTING TO HARVEST ‘FRUITS’ OF ECONOMIC REFORM

UNITED NATIONS OFFICE ON DRUGS AND CRIME LAUNCHES RADIO CAMPAIGN

‘LET’S TALK ABOUT DRUGS’

(Reissued as received.)

DECLINE OF OPIUM CULTIVATION IN ‘GOLDEN TRIANGLE’

(Reissued as received.)

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY MUST BE HARNESSED TO GLOBAL MISSION OF PEACE, DEVELOPMENT,

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN MESSAGE TO NEW YORK CONFERENCE

Following is Secretary-GeneralKofi Annan’s message to “The Net World Order:  Bridging the Global Digital Divide” Conference, hosted by the Business Council for the United Nations, in New York, 18 June:

Security Council

4775^th Meeting (AM)

SECURITY COUNCIL HEARS REPORT ON MISSION TO CENTRAL AFRICA SUPPORTING

PEACE PROCESSES IN BURUNDI, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO

The Security Council this morning heard an oral report on the Council’s mission to Central Africa in support of the peace processes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Burundi.