Economic and Social Council

2003 Organizational Session

11^th Meeting (AM)

UNDER-SECRETARY-GENERAL FOR COMMUNICATIONS AND PUBLIC INFORMATION

ADDRESSES INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATION CONFERENCE

SAN DIEGO, 25 May -- Shashi Tharoor, Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information of the United Nations, gave a keynote address at the fifty-third Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA):  "Communication in Borderlands" on Sunday, 25 May.

INFORMATION AGE CREATES VAST OPPORTUNITIES, BUT ALSO GENERATES NEW ‘DIVIDES’,

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN MESSAGE TO BANGKOK CONFERENCE

Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message to the first Conference of Ministers on “Information and Broadcasting in Asia and the Pacific”, delivered by Shashi Tharoor, Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information, in Bangkok 27 May:

LIBRARY IN GEORGIA DESIGNATED AS UNITED NATIONSDEPOSITORY LIBRARY

NEW YORK, 27 May (UN Department of Public Information) -- The Georgian Intergovernmental Library, located in Tbilisi, has been designated a United Nations depository library, becoming part of an international network of 405 libraries in 146 countries and territories that brings United Nations documents and publications to users around the world. 

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES DECISION BY ISRAELI GOVERNMENT TO ACCEPT ROAD MAP

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

INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL BOARD RE-ELECTS DR. EMAFO OF NIGERIA AS PRESIDENT

(Reissued as received.)

VIENNA, 27 May (UN Information Service) -- Dr. Philip O. Emafo, an international drug control expert from Nigeria, has been re-elected President of the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) at its seventy-seventh session in Vienna (26 May-6 June).  Dr. Emafo was first elected President of the INCB in 2002.

‘GREEN’ LAWYERS, SAHARAN WATER PROJECT AND GREAT APE CHAMPION AMONG

WINNERS OF 2003 UN ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMME AWARDS

TRANSCRIPT OF PRESS CONFERENCE BY SECRETARY-GENERAL KOFI ANNAN AND SPECIAL

REPRESENTATIVE FOR IRAQ, SERGIO VIEIRA DE MELLO, 27 MAY

The Secretary-General:  Good afternoon, Ladies and Gentlemen.

SECRETARY-GENERAL MOURNS INTERNATIONAL STAFF KILLED

IN PLANE CRASH FOLLOWING SERVICE IN AFGHANISTAN

The following statement was issued 26 May by the Spokesman for Secretary-GeneralKofi Annan:

PRESS STATEMENT ON BURUNDI BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT

Following is today’s press statement on Burundi by Security CouncilPresident Munir Akram (Pakistan):

Members of the Security Council:

-- Welcome the positive developments which have taken place in Burundi and further encourage the political actors and armed groups in Burundi to opt for dialogue and to eschew violence;