Security Council

4589^th Meeting* (AM & PM)

COUNCIL HEARS ARGUMENTS FOR BROADER, MORE SYSTEMATIC PARTICIPATION

KABUL MEETING DISCUSSES COUNTER-NARCOTIC STRATEGY

UN POPULATION FUND WELCOMES EUROPEAN UNION PLEDGE OF €32 MILLION

FOR REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH IN 22 COUNTRIES

Security Council

4588^th Meeting (Night)

Economic and Social Council

2002 Substantive Session

37^th and 38^th Meetings (AM & PM)

FOLLOWING VOTE, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL RECOMMENDS GENERAL ASSEMBLY

ADOPTION OF OPTIONAL PROTOCOL TO CONVENTION AGAINST TORTURE

In Earlier Vote, Council Rejects

PRESS STATEMENT ON YUGOSLAV TRIBUNAL, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO

BY PRESIDENT OF SECURITY COUNCIL

Following is yesterday’s press statement on the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo by Jeremy Greenstock (United Kingdom), President of the Security Council:

Security Council

4584^th and 4585^th Meetings (AM & PM)

SECURITY COUNCIL RECOMMENDS ADMISSION OF SWITZERLAND

AS MEMBER OF UNITED NATIONS

Fifty-sixth General Assembly

Plenary

109^th Meeting (PM)

ASSEMBLY APPROVES APPOINTMENT OF SERGIO VIEIRA DE MELLO

AS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS

UNFPA EXPRESSES REGRET AT UNITED STATES DECISION NOT TO GRANT IT FUNDING

NEW YORK, 22 July (UNFPA) -- The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) today said a decision by President Bush not to grant it the $34 million appropriated by Congress for 2002 will cost thousands of women and children their lives.

Economic and Social Council

2002 Substantive Session

35^th and 36^th Meetings (AM & PM)

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL CONSIDERS ISSUES CRITICAL TO DEVELOPMENT

-- SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, GLOBAL TAX COOPERATION, TOURISM