Press Release

                                                            GA/COL/3079/Rev.1*

‘ENVIRONMENT FOR EUROPE’ GOOD EXAMPLE OF CROSS-BORDER ENVIRONMENTAL COOPERATION,

SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS IN MESSAGE TO KYIV CONFERENCE

Following is the message of Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the fifth Ministerial Conference “Environment for Europe”, being held in Kyiv, Ukraine, 21-23 May, delivered by Brigita Schmögnerová, Executive Secretary, United NationsEconomic Commission for Europe:

Committee on Relations

with Host Country

216^th Meeting (PM)

HOST COUNTRY COMMITTEE ADDRESSES ISSUES RELATED TO VEHICLE PARKING,

MISSION SECURITY, ENTRY VISAS

PRESSING DEVELOPMENT ISSUES STALL PREPARATIONS FOR SELF-GOVERNMENT,

CARIBBEAN REGIONAL SEMINAR TOLD

Role of Administering Powers

And Relationship with Locally Elected Officials Debated

(Received from a UN Information Officer.)

Committee on NGOs

22^nd & 23^rd Meetings (AM & PM)

NGO COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS CONSULTATIVE STATUS WITH ECOSOC FOR 18 ORGANIZATIONS,

DEFERS REQUESTS OF THREE OTHERS

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Fifth Committee (Resumed)

53^rd Meeting (AM)

IN FIFTH COMMITTEE, AFRICAN GROUP ADVOCATES ADEQUATE FUNDING FOR UN MISSIONS

IN SIERRA LEONE, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO

SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES ANGUILLA GATHERING TO WORK

TOWARDS COMPLETION OF DECOLONIZATION

Following is the message of Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the occasion of the opening of the Caribbean Regional Seminar on Decolonization and the observance of the week of solidarity with the peoples of the Non-Self-Governing Territories, at The Valley, Anguilla, 20-22 May:

SEABED AUTHORITY WORKSHOP MAPS PROJECT TO MODEL POLYMETALLIC

NODULE DEPOSITS IN NORTH PACIFIC

(Received from a UN Information Officer)

      NADI, FIJI, 20 May -- A blueprint for clearer scientific assessment of polymetallic nodule deposits on the deep seabed of the Equatorial North Pacific Ocean has been prepared by a workshop of the International Seabed Authority (ISA), held at Nadi, Fiji, from 13 to 20 May.

LASTING PEACE AND SECURITY IN CENTRAL AFRICA STILL SLOW

IN ARRIVING, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS

(Delayed for translation of text, originally delivered in French.)

SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES CARIBBEAN REGIONAL SEMINAR TO ADVANCE

DECOLONIZATION PROCESS IN 16 REMAINING TERRITORIES

Calls Decolonization Cardinal Goal,

True UN Success Story, as Three-Day Seminar Opens

(Received from a UN Information Officer)