HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE OPENS SEVENTY-EIGHTH SESSION

Hears Statement by Acting High Commissioner for Human Rights

(Reissued as received.)

GENEVA, 14 July (UN Information Service) -- The Human Rights Committee, charged with monitoring the implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, started this morning its four-week summer session by hearing a statement by the Acting High Commissioner for Human Rights, Bertrand

ESCWA POST-WAR MEETING ON IRAQ CONCLUDES; CALLS FOR A STRONGER UN ROLE

(Reissued as received.)

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:

ECOSOC ADOPTS RESOLUTION ON DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES;

MAKES RECOMMENDATION ON UNFPA PERSONNEL MATTERS

Begins Consideration of Special Economic,

Humanitarian and Disaster Relief Assistance

(Reissued as received.)

Security Council

4786^th Meeting (AM)

SECURITY COUNCIL EXTENDS MANDATE OF MULTINATIONAL STABILIZATION FORCE

IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA FOR ANOTHER YEAR

Resolution 1491 (2003) Adopted Unanimously

The Security Council this morning extended the mandate of the multinational stabilization force (SFOR) in Bosnia and Herzegovina for 12 months.

SECRETARY-GENERAL’S ADVISORY BOARD ON DISARMAMENT MATTERS TO MEET

IN GENEVA, 16 TO 18 JULY 2003, IN FORTY-FIRST SESSION

The Secretary-General’s Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters will meet for a three-day closed session in Geneva, from 16 to 18 July 2003.  Its last session was held in New York from 5 to 7 February 2003.  The Board meets twice a year.

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