Press Release

GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT SAYS UN MEETING OF FINANCE, TRADE INSTITUTIONS OFFERS HOPE FOR MORE PROFOUND PROGRESS IN ACHIEVING ANTI-POVERTY GOALS

Following is the statement by the President of the General Assembly, Jan Kavan (Czech Republic), to the special high-level meeting with the Bretton Woods institutions and the World Trade Organization in New York on Monday, 14 April:

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COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS ADOPTS RESOLUTIONS ON SELF-DETERMINATION,

DEFAMATION OF RELIGION

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs

of Georgia Speaks; Debate Begins on Remaining Agenda Items

(Reissued as received.)

SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES DEVELOPED COUNTRIES TO ‘DRAMATICALLY REDUCE’

AGRICULTURAL SUBSIDIES, AT HIGH-LEVEL ECOSOC MEETING

PRESS STATEMENT ON SOMALIA BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT

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

DESPITE CRITICAL REGIONAL CIRCUMSTANCES, ESCWA TO HOLD

TWENTY-SECOND MINISTERIAL SESSION

(Reissued as received.)

AMENDED AL-QAIDA AND TALIBAN LIST ISSUED BY SECURITY COUNCIL COMMITTEE

On 10 April 2003, the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1267 (1999) approved several amendments to its list of individuals and entities belonging to or associated with the Taliban and the Al-Qaida organization (Al-Qaida section).

Special Committee on

Decolonization

2^nd Meeting (AM) 

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Plenary

82^nd Meeting (AM)

GENERAL ASSEMBLY TEXT STRONGLY SUPPORTS ‘KIMBERLEY PROCESS’ CERTIFICATION SCHEME, AIMED AT COMBATING USE OF DIAMONDS FOR FINANCING CONFLICT

Draft Resolution Introduced by South Africa;

International Certification Effort Went Into Effect 1 January 2003

FRAMEWORK FOR PEACE, SECURITY MUST HAVE CAPACITY TO RESPOND SWIFTLY, EFFECTIVELY,

SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS SECURITY COUNCIL

Following is the text of opening remarks, as delivered, by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to today’s meeting of the Security Council on regional organizations and new challenges to international peace and security:

Security Council

4739^th Meeting (AM)

SECURITY COUNCIL MEETS WITH REGIONAL ORGANIZATIONS TO CONSIDER WAYS

TO STRENGTHEN COLLECTIVE SECURITY

Secretary-General Suggests Need for Network

of Flexible, Responsive Regional and Global Mechanisms