PI/1470*

HIGH COMMISSIONER PRESENTS REPORT ON HUMAN RIGHTS SITUATION IN COLOMBIA;

URGES END TO PARAMILITARY LINKS

Commission on Human Rights Continues

Review of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

(Reissued as received.)

Round-up of Session

HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE CONCLUDES SEVENTY-SEVENTH SESSION

Adopts Final Conclusions

And Recommendations on Reports of Estonia, Luxembourg and Mali

(Reissued as received.)

COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS TAKES UP ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS

Experts on Health, Education, Food, Foreign Debt, and Toxic

Wastes Speak; Deputy Prime Minister of Equatorial Guinea Gives Address

(Reissued as received.)

Security Council

4734^th Meeting* (AM & PM)

OUTGOING CHAIR OF SECURITY COUNCIL’S COUNTER-TERRORISM COMMITTEE SAYS

UNITED NATIONS NOW CENTRE OF GLOBAL ANTI-TERRORISM NETWORK

Briefing Council, Jeremy Greenstock (United Kingdom)

COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS HEARS FROM NGOS CHARGING VIOLATIONS AROUND WORLD

Chairperson of Sub-Commission on the Promotion

and Protection of Human Rights Delivers Report, Address

(Reissued as received.)

NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS TELL COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS

OF FURTHER ALLEGATIONS OF ABUSES AROUND GLOBE

Official of Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe Gives Address

(Reissued as received.)

PHILIPPE DE SEYNES, ‘INTELLECTUAL GIANT’, SHAPER OF UNITED NATIONS ECONOMIC,

SOCIAL OPERATIONS, DIES IN PARIS AT AGE 93

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

Philippe de Seynes, one of the United Nations’ most distinguished senior officials, passed away yesterday in Paris at age 93.

PRESS STATEMENT ON BURUNDI BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT

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

IRAQ CONFLICT COULD BE DEVASTATING FOR RURAL ECONOMY, SAYS UNITED NATIONS

FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION

Emergency Appeal for $86 Million Launched

ROME, 3 April (FAO) -- Conflict could be devastating for Iraq's rural economy, with consequences on the country's capacity to produce food, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warned today in the wake of its recent launch of an $86 million appeal to help meet the emergency.