SECURITY COUNCIL URGED TO ENSURE GREATER PARTICIPATION OF WOMEN IN PEACE EFFORTS

COMMITTEE ON PEACEFUL USES OF OUTER SPACE TO HOLD FORTY-SIXTH

SESSION IN VIENNA, 11-20 JUNE

Concept of ‘Launching State’, Other Issues to Be Discussed

(Reissued as received.)

SECRETARY-GENERAL TO DISPATCH ASSESSMENT MISSION TO CENTRAL AFRICA

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

SECURITY COUNCIL COMMITTEE ON SIERRA LEONE ISSUES REVISED LIST

The Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1132 (1997) concerning Sierra Leone, on 30 May 2003, approved the removal of the names of eight persons from the list of individuals affected by the measures contained in paragraph 5 of resolution 1171 (1998), which reads as follows:

PRESS STATEMENT ON KOSOVO BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT

Following is today’s press statement on Kosovo by Security CouncilPresident Sergey Lavrov (Russian Federation):

Members of the Security Council strongly condemned the murder in Obilic on 4 June of the elderly Kosovo-Serb family –- 82-year-old Slobodan Stolic, his wife and son.

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Plenary

88^th Meeting (AM)

GENERAL ASSEMBLY ELECTS JULIAN HUNTE (SAINT LUCIA)

PRESIDENT OF FIFTY-EIGHTH SESSION

Also Elects Main Committee Chairmen,

Vice-Presidents; Extends Appointment of UNCTAD Secretary-General

SHEIKHA HESSA OF QATAR APPOINTED NEW SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR FOR DISABILITY

Secretary-General Kofi Annan has appointed Sheikha Hessa bint Khalifa bin Ahmed al-Thani of Qatar as the Special Rapporteur on Disability of the United Nations Commission for Social Development for the period 2003 to 2005.

Security Council

4768^th Meeting* (AM)

UN INSPECTORS FOUND NO EVIDENCE OF PROHIBITED WEAPONS PROGRAMMES

AS OF 18 MARCH WITHDRAWAL, HANS BLIX TELLS SECURITY COUNCIL

Says New Environment in Iraq, with Full Access and Cooperation,

Should Allow Establishment of Truth about ‘Unaccounted for’ Items

Up until they were withdrawn from Iraq on 18 March –- the day before

PRESS STATEMENT ON INSPECTION COMMISSION CHAIRMAN HANS BLIX

BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT

Following is today’s press statement by Security Council President Sergey Lavrov (Russian Federation) concerning the Executive Chairman of the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC):

PRESS STATEMENT ON SIERRA LEONE DIAMOND EMBARGO BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT

Following is today’s press statement on the Security Council’s review of the Sierra Leone diamond embargo by Council President Sergey Lavrov (Russian Federation):