RAFEEUDDIN AHMED NAMED SPECIAL ADVISER BY SECRETARY-GENERAL

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

COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS CONTINUES GENERAL DEBATE

ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS

Special Representative on Situation

of Human Rights in Cambodia Presents Report

(Reissued as received.)

Round-up

OUTER SPACE LEGAL SUBCOMMITTEE CONCLUDES FORTY-SECOND SESSION IN VIENNA

Work Focuses on Space Assets, Harmonizing

Registration of Objects Launched into Space, Ethics in Outer Space

(Reissued as received.)

COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS COMPLETES DISCUSSION OF ECONOMIC,

SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS

Begins Review of Civil and Political Rights

(Reissued as received.)

UNEP RECOMMENDS STUDIES OF DEPLETED URANIUM IN IRAQ

(Reissued as received.)

Amman/Nairobi, 6 April (UNEP) -– The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is recommending that a scientific assessment of sites targeted with weapons containing depleted uranium (DU) be conducted in Iraq as soon as conditions permit.

Security Council

4736^th Meeting (PM)

WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME NEEDS $1.8 BILLION TO ADDRESS AFRICAN

FOOD EMERGENCY, SECURITY COUNCIL TOLD

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES CÔTE D’IVOIRE AGREEMENT ON GOVERNMENT

OF RECONCILIATION AS ‘MAJOR PROGRESS TOWARDS PEACE’

Following is the message of Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the agreement establishing a government of reconciliation in Côte d’Ivoire, delivered on his behalf by his Special Representative, General Albert Tévoedjré, in Yamoussoukro on 3 April:

GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT HIGHLIGHTS ‘DIRE’ SITUATION CHILDREN FACE

FROM ENVIRONMENTAL THREATS IN WORLD HEALTH DAY MESSAGE

Following is the message of Jan Kavan (Czech Republic), President of the fifty-seventh Session of the General Assembly, on World Health Day 2003, observed on 7 April:

Security Council

4735^th Meeting (PM)

SECURITY COUNCIL, RESPONDING TO SECURITY CHALLENGES IN TIMOR-LESTE,

DELAYS CUTBACKS IN UN FORCES

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