Meeting of States to Consider Action

Programme on Illicit Small Arms Trade

7^th & 8^th Meetings (AM & PM)

REGIONAL GROUPS, INCLUDING FROM AFRICA, EXPLORE DELAYS IN AND SOLUTIONS

TO IMPLEMENTING SMALL ARMS ACTION PLAN, IN BIENNIAL MEETING OF STATES

Weapons Stockpile Management, Marking and Tracing,

Collection and Destruction, Links to Organized Crime, Also Considered

Committee on Elimination of

Discrimination against Women

620^th & 621^st Meetings (AM & PM)

EXPERTS IN WOMEN’S ANTI-DISCRIMINATION COMMITTEE PRAISE SLOVENIA’S LEGAL FRAMEWORK

BUT STRESS NEED TO STRENGTHEN MECHANISMS TO COUNTER INEQUALITY

PRESS STATEMENT ON SITUATION IN BURUNDI BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT

Following is today’s press statement on Burundi by Security Council President Inocencio Arias (Spain):

Members of the Security Council heard a briefing from the Secretariat on the situation in Burundi and expressed their deep concern over the latest resumption of hostilities and the deterioration of the humanitarian situation.

ADOLESCENTS HAVE RIGHT TO HEALTH-CARE SERVICES AND INFORMATION,

GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT SAYS ON WORLD POPULATION DAY

Following is the message by the President of the General Assembly, Jan Kavan (Czech Republic), to mark World Population Day (11 July), this year’s theme being “One Billion Adolescents:  the Right to Health, Information and Services”:

ECOSOC RECOMMENDS MAKING WORLD TOURISM ORGANIZATION

SPECIALIZED AGENCY OF UNITED NATIONS

Considers Economic and Environmental Questions, Including International

Cooperation in Tax Matters and Status of International Civil Defence Organization

(Reissued as received.)

FAO SENDS SARS EXPERT TO CHINA

To Investigate Role of Animals in Spreading Virus

(Reissued as received.)

ROME, 10 July (FAO) –- The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) will send a senior Australian veterinarian to China on Friday for a three-week visit to help coordinate an international investigation into the roles animals might play in spreading the deadly SARS virus.

SECRETARY-GENERAL ANNAN CALLS ON AFRICAN LEADERS TO POINT WAY TO TOLERANCE,

UNDERSTANDING AND PEACEFUL RESOLUTION OF CONFLICT

Following are the remarks made by Secretary-General Kofi Annan at the African Union Heads of State prayer breakfast in Maputo, Mozambique on 10 July:

Committee on Elimination of

Discrimination against Women

619^th Meeting (AM)

MAJOR CHALLENGE FOR COSTA RICA IS PRACTICAL IMPLEMENTATION OF RELEVANT

LEGISLATION, WOMEN’S ANTI-DISCRIMINATION COMMITTEE TOLD

Meeting of States to Consider Action

Programme on Illicit Small Arms Trade

5^th & 6^th Meetings (AM & PM)

BIENNIAL MEETING OF STATES CONCLUDES CONSIDERATION OF NATIONAL PLANS TO CURB

ILLICIT SMALL ARMS TRADE, HEARS PROPOSALS FROM CIVIL SOCIETY

Committee on Elimination of

Discrimination against Women

617^th & 618^th Meeting (AM & PM)                  

COMMITTEE EXPERTS, NOTING IMPORTANT PROGRESS IN JAPAN’S LEGAL FRAMEWORK,

WELCOME NEW LEGISLATION TO FOSTER GENDER EQUALITY