POVERTY REDUCTION, SUSTAINABLE CONSUMPTION, ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION MUST BE

ADDRESSED, INDONESIAN MINISTER TELLS CONFERENCE PREPARATORY MEETING

Preparatory Committee for Sustainable Development Summit Begins Work in Bali

(Received from a UN Information Officer.)

UN, WELCOMING COLOMBIA’S ELECTIONS, WILL EXAMINE ‘WITH CARE AND INTEREST’

PRESIDENT-ELECT’S PROPOSALS FOR UN ROLE IN NEW PEACE EFFORTS

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

The United Nations welcomes the fact that the Colombian people were able to exercise their right to vote on Sunday, 26 May 2002, and have acted decisively to elect the candidate of their choice.

NEED FOR GOOD GOVERNANCE, DEMOCRATIZATION, TRANSPARENCY, EQUITY

STRESSED AS MULTI-STAKEHOLDER DIALOGUE BEGINS

(Received from a UN Information Officer.)

BALI, 27 May -- A broad range of civil society and government actors in the sustainable development process took the floor this afternoon to express their views, as the fourth and final Preparatory Committee for the upcoming World Summit on Sustainable Development continued its work.

BALI PREPARATORY MEETING FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT CONFERENCE

OPENS WITH FLAG-RAISING CEREMONY

Largest International Meeting Ever Held in Bali to Continue through 7 June

(Received from a UN Information Officer.)

Committee on Relations

with Host Country

211^th Meeting (PM)

COMMITTEE ON RELATIONS WITH HOST COUNTRY CONSIDERS PROBLEM

OF NEW YORK CITY TAX DEMANDS ON LIBYAN MISSION

Also Discussed:  Travel Restrictions on Certain Diplomats,

PRESS STATEMENT BY PRESIDENT OF SECURITY COUNCIL ON SOMALIA

Following is today's press statement on Somalia by the President of the Security Council, Kishore Mahbubani (Singapore):

Members of the Council heard a briefing by the Secretariat on the situation in Somalia, and expressed their serious concern with regard to recent developments and their grave impact on the humanitarian situation.

Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues

First Session

17^th & 18^th Meetings (AM & PM)

PERMANENT FORUM ON INDIGENOUS ISSUES CONCLUDES HISTORIC FIRST SESSION;

SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS WORLD'S INDIGENOUS PEOPLES 'HAVE A HOME' AT UN

Report to Economic and Social Council

Recommend Establishment of Forum Secretariat in New York

Security Council

4544^th Meeting (PM)

SECURITY COUNCIL CONDEMNS RECENT KILLING IN KISANGANI,

DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO

Council Also Reiterates Demand for Demilitarization of Kisangani;

Asks Secretary-Generalto Weigh Possibility of Increased MONUC Deployment in City

‘YOU HAVE A HOME AT THE UNITED NATIONS’ SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL,

AS INDIGENOUS FORUM CONCLUDES FIRST SESSION

Following are the remarks of Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the closing meeting of the first session of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in New York on 24 May:

It gives me great pleasure to address this historic first session of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.