SECRETARY-GENERAL APPEALS TO SECURITY COUNCIL TO SET ASIDE

PAST DIFFERENCES ON IRAQ AND FIND NEW UNITY

Following is the statement, as delivered, by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the Security Council meeting on 30 April, devoted to wrapping up the Council’s work for the current month:

Committee on Information

Twenty-fifth Session

2^nd & 3^rd Meetings (AM & PM)                           

WORLD LOOKING TO UNITED NATIONS AS SOURCE OF RELIABLE, IMPARTIAL INFORMATION,

COMMITTEE ON INFORMATION TOLD, AS GENERAL DEBATE CONTINUES

UNITED NATIONS AND EUROPEAN COMMISSION SIGN FRAMEWORK PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT

CÔTE D’IVOIRE PLUS FIVE APPEAL LAUNCHED IN ABIDJAN

Security Council

4745^th Meeting (PM)

SECURITY COUNCIL FORWARDS ‘AD LITEM’ JUDGE NOMINATIONS

FOR RWANDA TRIBUNAL TO GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Having considered the nominations for ad litem judges of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, the Security Council this afternoon forwarded a list of 35 candidates to the General Assembly.

Economic and Social Council

2003 Organizational Session

9^th Meeting (AM)

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL ELECTS MEMBERS OF HUMAN RIGHTS

COMMISSION, OTHER SUBSIDIARY BODIES

The Economic and Social Council this morning filled vacancies on a number of its subsidiary bodies, including the Commission on Human Rights, to which it elected 24 members.

Commission on Sustainable Development

Eleventh Session

3^rd Meeting (AM&PM)

SPEAKERS URGE INCREASED ASSISTANCE FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES IN MEETING WATER, ENERGY NEEDS, AS SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION CONTINUES

Holds Ministerial Debate, Regional Forum, Round Table;

ESCALATING CRISIS IN RURAL AFRICA MAIN CONCERN AT ECOSOC MEETING

OF MINISTERS, UN AGENCY HEADS IN NEW YORK, 30 APRIL

Security Council

4746^th Meeting (PM)

SECRETARY-GENERAL APPEALS TO SECURITY COUNCIL FOR FINANCIAL SUPPORT TO SUSTAIN

WEST AFRICAN STATES’ CÔTE D’IVOIRE PEACEKEEPING FORCE

Additional Resources Needed for Expanded Mandate;

Foreign Ministers of Guinea, Ghana, Côte d’Ivoire, Nigeria Also Speak

TRAGIC LEGACY OF CHERNOBYL WILL REMAIN FOR GENERATIONS TO COME SAYS

SECRETARY-GENERAL ON ANNIVERSARY OF NUCLEAR PLANT ACCIDENT

The following statement was issued 26 April by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the seventeenth anniversary of the Chernobyl accident:

Twenty-six April marks the seventeenth anniversary of the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine.