COMMITTEE ON PEACEFUL USES OF OUTER SPACE TO HOLD FORTY-SIXTH

SESSION IN VIENNA, 11-20 JUNE

Concept of ‘Launching State’, Other Issues to Be Discussed

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UNEP URGES ACTION TO BETTER MANAGE GLOBE’S GROUNDWATERS

World Environment Day June 5:  Water -- Two Billion People Are Dying For It!

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BEIRUT/NAIROBI, 5 June (UNEP) -- Many of the world's “natural underground reservoirs”, upon which 2 billion people depend for drinking water and irrigation, are under increasing stress and strain, a new report launched on World Environment Day shows.

DIOUF:  SAFEGUARD ‘THE SOURCE OF FOOD SECURITY’

Water is Theme of World Environment Day 2003

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ROME,5 June (FAO) -- On the occasion of World Environment Day 2003, celebrated today under the theme “Water -- Two Billion people are Dying for It!”, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Director-General Jacques Diouf called on the international community “to help safeguard the source of food security on our planet”.

UNITED NATIONS VIDEO TEAM WINS ‘BEST POLITICAL STORY’ AWARD

Security Council

4768^th Meeting* (AM)

UN INSPECTORS FOUND NO EVIDENCE OF PROHIBITED WEAPONS PROGRAMMES

AS OF 18 MARCH WITHDRAWAL, HANS BLIX TELLS SECURITY COUNCIL

Says New Environment in Iraq, with Full Access and Cooperation,

Should Allow Establishment of Truth about ‘Unaccounted for’ Items

Up until they were withdrawn from Iraq on 18 March –- the day before

PRESS STATEMENT ON INSPECTION COMMISSION CHAIRMAN HANS BLIX

BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT

Following is today’s press statement by Security Council President Sergey Lavrov (Russian Federation) concerning the Executive Chairman of the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC):

PRESS STATEMENT ON SIERRA LEONE DIAMOND EMBARGO BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT

Following is today’s press statement on the Security Council’s review of the Sierra Leone diamond embargo by Council President Sergey Lavrov (Russian Federation):

Special Committee on

Decolonization

4^th Meeting (AM)

DECOLONIZATION COMMITTEE CONSIDERS SITUATIONS OF GIBRALTAR, CAYMAN ISLANDS

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Fifth Committee (Resumed)

56^th  Meeting (PM)

BUDGET COMMITTEE APPROVES $2.17 BILLION FOR 2003/2004 PEACEKEEPING,

AS IT CONCLUDES RESUMED SESSION

The Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) this afternoon approved some $2.17 billion gross to finance 11 active peacekeeping missions for 2003/2004, as it concluded its second resumed session.  That amount includes some

STATES PARTIES TO LAW OF SEA CONVENTION TO MEET AT HEADQUARTERS, 9 - 13 JUNE