RAFEEUDDIN AHMED NAMED SPECIAL ADVISER BY SECRETARY-GENERAL

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

COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS CONTINUES GENERAL DEBATE

ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS

Special Representative on Situation

of Human Rights in Cambodia Presents Report

(Reissued as received.)

Round-up

OUTER SPACE LEGAL SUBCOMMITTEE CONCLUDES FORTY-SECOND SESSION IN VIENNA

Work Focuses on Space Assets, Harmonizing

Registration of Objects Launched into Space, Ethics in Outer Space

(Reissued as received.)

COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS COMPLETES DISCUSSION OF ECONOMIC,

SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS

Begins Review of Civil and Political Rights

(Reissued as received.)

UNEP RECOMMENDS STUDIES OF DEPLETED URANIUM IN IRAQ

(Reissued as received.)

Amman/Nairobi, 6 April (UNEP) -– The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is recommending that a scientific assessment of sites targeted with weapons containing depleted uranium (DU) be conducted in Iraq as soon as conditions permit.

Security Council

4736^th Meeting (PM)

WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME NEEDS $1.8 BILLION TO ADDRESS AFRICAN

FOOD EMERGENCY, SECURITY COUNCIL TOLD

Committee on Charter

and United Nations Role

243^rd Meeting (AM)           

IMPACT OF SANCTIONS, IMPORTANCE OF ADHERING TO UN PRINCIPLES DEBATED

IN CONTEXT OF IRAQ WAR, AS SPECIAL CHARTER COMMITTEE OPENS SESSION

2003 FELLOWSHIPS IN INTERNATIONAL LAW AWARDED; PROGRAMME

TO TAKE PLACE IN THE HAGUE 7 JULY-15 AUGUST

GENEVA, 7 April (UN Information Service) -- The Selection Committee of the United Nations Fellowship Programme in International Law met in New York on Friday, 4 April 2003, under the chairmanship of Hans Corell, Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs, Legal Counsel of the United Nations.

SECRETARY-GENERAL INFORMS SECURITY COUNCIL OF APPOINTMENT

OF RAFEEUDDIN AHMED AS SPECIAL ADVISER

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES EFFORTS OF INTER-PARLIAMENTARY UNION

TO PROVIDE GREATER SUPPORT TO UNITED NATIONS

Following is the message by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the 108^th Inter-Parliamentary Conference in Santiago de Chile, as delivered by José Antonio Ocampo, Executive Secretary, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC):