Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues

Second Session

18^th & 19^th Meetings (AM & PM)                   

Round-up

UN COMMISSION ON CRIME PREVENTION AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE

CONCLUDES TWELFTH SESSION IN VIENNA, 13-22 MAY

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Fifth Committee

54^th Meeting (AM)

IN FIFTH COMMITTEE, DELEGATES ADVOCATE PROVISION OF ADEQUATE RESOURCES

FOR INSTRAW, FILLING OF VACANT DIRECTOR POST

DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL REITERATES UN COMMITMENT TO AID IRAQIS, NOTES HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE DEPENDENT ON AVAILABILITY OF RESOURCES

Following is the text of remarks, as delivered, by Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette to today’s Security Council meeting on “Response to the Humanitarian Situation in Iraq”, in New York:

DIVERSIFICATION IS BEST LONG-TERM SURVIVAL STRATEGY OF PLANET’S SPECIES,

SAYS GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT

Following is the message by Jan Kavan, President of the General Assembly, for the International Day for Biological Diversity, 22 May 2003:

Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues

Second Session

17^th Meeting (PM)

NEED FOR FORMAL COMPLAINT PROCEDURES, EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATIONS STRATEGIES,

INCREASED FUNDING HIGHLIGHTED IN PERMANENT FORUM ON INDIGENOUS ISSUES

SECRETARY-GENERAL ‘DEEPLY SADDENED’ BY HEAVY LOSS OF LIFE

FOLLOWING ALGERIAN EARTHQUAKE, OFFERS UN ASSISTANCE

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

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Plenary

86^th Meeting (AM)

GENERAL ASSEMBLY ENDORSES EXTENSION OF TERMS OF OFFICE FOR FOUR JUDGES

OF INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL TRIBUNAL FOR RWANDA

Also Adopts Text on Global Road Safety Crisis

CARIBBEAN REGIONAL SEMINAR ON DECOLONIZATION GRAPPLES WITH ‘HISTORICAL ANOMALIES’ ON UNITED NATIONS LIST OF NON-SELF-GOVERNING TERRITORIES

Discusses Situations in Falklands (Malvinas), Western Sahara,

Gibraltar; Prepares to Draft Seminar Conclusions and Recommendations

(Reissued as received from a UN Information Officer.)

SECRETARY-GENERAL PLEDGES UN SUPPORT TO IRAQ IN ‘COMPLEX AND DIFFICULT’

TASKS AHEAD, IN MESSAGE TO SECURITY COUNCIL

Following is the text of remarks, as delivered, by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to today’s Security Council meeting on “The Situation between Iraq and Kuwait” in New York: