AFR/454

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES ANNOUNCEMENTS OF COMMITMENTS

MAJOR-GENERAL PUONTI APPOINTED CHIEF MILITARY OBSERVER IN UNITED NATIONS

MILITARY OBSERVER GROUP IN INDIA AND PAKISTAN

Secretary-General Kofi Annan announced today the appointment of Major-General Pertti Juhani Puonti of Finland as Chief Military Observer in the United Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP).

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Committee on Elimination of

Discrimination against Women

585^th Meeting (AM)

GREECE DESCRIBES WIDE RANGE OF LEGISLATION PROMOTING GENDER EQUALITY

AS ANTI-DISCRIMINATION COMMITTEE CONTINUES EXCEPTIONAL SESSION

CORRECTION

In Press Release WOM/1361 issued 19 August, the next to last paragraph on page 11 should read:

SECRETARY-GENERAL REPLIES TO CAMBODIAN PRIME MINISTER’S LETTER

ON TRIAL OF KHMER ROUGE LEADERS

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

Today, the Secretary-General wrote to Mr. Hun Sen, Prime Minister of Cambodia, on the issue of the trial of the Khmer Rouge leaders.  The letter was in response to a letter from the Prime Minister to the Secretary-General.

Committee on Elimination of

Discrimination against Women

586^th and 587^th Meetings (AM & PM)

UN ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON CENTRAL AFRICA SECURITY QUESTIONS

TO MEET IN BANGUI, 26-30 AUGUST

NEW YORK, 19 August (Department for Disarmament Affairs) -- The United Nations Standing Advisory Committee on Security Questions in Central Africa will be holding its eighteenth ministerial meeting from 26 to 30 August, in Bangui, the Central African Republic. 

Committee on Elimination of                                        WOM/1363

Committee on Elimination of

Discrimination against Women

585^th Meeting (AM)

GREECE DESCRIBES WIDE RANGE OF LEGISLATION PROMOTING GENDER EQUALITY

AS ANTI-DISCRIMINATION COMMITTEE CONTINUES EXCEPTIONAL SESSION