EXPERTS MEETING ON 10-YEAR PLAN FOR SUSTAINABLE CONSUMPTION, PRODUCTION

TO BE HELD IN MARRAKECH, 16 – 19 JUNE

NEW YORK, 12 June -- Over 100 participants from about 70 countries will meet on Monday in Marrakech, Morocco, to take the first steps towards implementing one of the key commitments made by world leaders at the 2002 Johannesburg Summit:  to develop a 10-year framework of programmes for sustainable consumption and production.

PRESS STATEMENT ON LIBERIA BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT

Following is the text of today’s press statement on Liberia by Security Council President Sergey Lavrov (Russian Federation):

Meeting of States Parties

to Law of Sea Convention

73^rd Meeting (AM)       

STATES PARTIES APPROVE FINANCIAL REGULATIONS FOR LAW OF SEA TRIBUNAL

Also Elect Meeting Vice-Presidents, Members of Credentials Committee

A PUBLIC-PRIVATE ALLIANCE AGAINST HUNGER

(Reissued as received.)

TUMBA (SWEDEN)/ROME, 11 June (FAO) -- The private sector must become a driving force in an international alliance against hunger, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said on Wednesday, urging closer collaboration between business, governments and international organizations.

UNFPA EMERGENCY MEDICAL SUPPLIES ARRIVE IN BAGHDAD

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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.

SECRETARY-GENERAL CONDEMNS ‘IN STRONGEST POSSIBLE TERMS’

SUICIDE BOMBING BY HAMAS IN JERUSALEM

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

HIGH-LEVEL PANEL ON CIVIL SOCIETY HOLDS FIRST MEETING

AT UN HEADQUARTERS, 2 - 3 JUNE

Security Council

4771^st Meeting (AM)

SECURITY COUNCIL EXTENDS CYPRUS FORCE UNTIL 15 DECEMBER,

UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTING RESOLUTION 1486 (2003)

The Security Council this morning extended the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) until 15 December, noting the Government of Cyprus had agreed that its continued presence was necessary, in view of the prevailing conditions on the island.

The Secretary-General travelled to Washington, D.C. in the morning of Wednesday, 11 June, where he met with United States Secretary of State Colin Powell for a private working lunch, at which they discussed the Middle East and Iraq, operations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Liberia and Myanmar.

YOUNG ENVIRONMENTALISTS FROM ACROSS GLOBE MEET IN RUSSIA

TO AGREE ON ACTIONS FOR BETTER WORLD

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NAIROBI/DUBNA, 11 June (UNEP) -- An elite group of young people will be converging on the Russian town of Dubna to share their passions for a greener, cleaner world and to draw up action plans for realizing an environmentally friendly future.