Press Release

Commission on Population and Development

Thirty-sixth Session

7^th Meeting (AM)                          

POPULATION COMMISSION CONCLUDES THIRTY-SIXTH SESSION ON THE THEME:

POPULATION, EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT

ISRAELI MILITARY FORCEFULLY OCCUPIES UN SCHOOL IN WEST BANK

PRESS STATEMENT ON IRAQ HUMANITARIAN SITUATION BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT

Following is the press statement on Iraq delivered today by Security Council President Adolfo Aguilar Zinser (Mexico):

COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS HEARS FROM NGOS CHARGING VIOLATIONS AROUND WORLD

Chairperson of Sub-Commission on the Promotion

and Protection of Human Rights Delivers Report, Address

(Reissued as received.)

NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS TELL COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS

OF FURTHER ALLEGATIONS OF ABUSES AROUND GLOBE

Official of Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe Gives Address

(Reissued as received.)

PHILIPPE DE SEYNES, ‘INTELLECTUAL GIANT’, SHAPER OF UNITED NATIONS ECONOMIC,

SOCIAL OPERATIONS, DIES IN PARIS AT AGE 93

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

Philippe de Seynes, one of the United Nations’ most distinguished senior officials, passed away yesterday in Paris at age 93.

PRESS STATEMENT ON BURUNDI BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT

Following is the press statement on Burundi, delivered today by Security Council President Adolfo Aguilar Zinser (Mexico):

IRAQ CONFLICT COULD BE DEVASTATING FOR RURAL ECONOMY, SAYS UNITED NATIONS

FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION

Emergency Appeal for $86 Million Launched

ROME, 3 April (FAO) -- Conflict could be devastating for Iraq's rural economy, with consequences on the country's capacity to produce food, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warned today in the wake of its recent launch of an $86 million appeal to help meet the emergency.

Ad Hoc Committee on Assembly

Resolution 51/210

29^th Meeting (AM)

GENERAL ASSEMBLY’S AD HOC COMMITTEE ON TERRORISM RECOMMENDS

LEGAL COMMITTEE WORKING GROUP FOR TWO DRAFT TREATIES

COMMISSION ON BOUNDARY BETWEEN CAMEROON, NIGERIA TO MEET IN YAOUNDE, 2-3 APRIL

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