‘NO TIME TO WASTE’ IF GOAL OF HALVING POVERTY BY 2015 TO BE REACHED,

SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS ROME FOOD SUMMIT

Following is the address by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the World Food Summit in Rome, 10 June 2002:

Special Committee on

Decolonization

5^th and 6^th Meetings (AM & PM)

DECOLONIZATION COMMITTEE URGES UNITED STATES TO HALT MILITARY MANOEUVRES

ON VIEQUES ISLAND, RETURN OCCUPIED LAND TO PEOPLE OF PUERTO RICO

Committee on Elimination of

Discrimination against Women

559^th & 560^th Meetings (AM & PM)

EXPERTS PRAISE BELGIUM'S INNOVATIVE PROMOTION OF GENDER EQUALITY,

URGE COORDINATION OF ACTION BY COUNTRY'S FEDERATED BODIES

ANTI-DESERTIFICATION CONVENTION KEY ELEMENT IN QUEST FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT,

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL ON WORLD DAY TO COMBAT DESERTIFICATION AND DROUGHT

Following is the message of Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought, which is observed 17 June:

Desertification and drought pose a worldwide threat with serious economic, environmental and socio-political implications.

WORLD FOOD SUMMIT:  FIVE YEARS LATER -– SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS

PROGRESS IN FIGHTING HUNGER FAR TOO SLOW

Italian President Calls for Debt Cancellation for Poor Countries

Round-up

AFTER TWO WEEKS OF INTENSE NEGOTIATIONS, BALI MEETING SENDS IMPLEMENTATION

PLAN TO JOHANNESBURG FOR FINALIZATION

Final Preparatory Committee for World Summit

On Sustainable Development Concludes in Early Morning Session

(Received from a UN Information Officer.)

PRESS STATEMENT ON aFGHANISTAN DELIVERED BY PRESIDENT OF SECURITY COUNCIL

The following press statement on Afghanistan was delivered today by the President of the Council, Mikhail Wehbe (Syria):

      Members of the Council welcome the arrangements being made for the latest step in the Bonn process, the Emergency Loya Jirga, to start in Kabul on 10 June;

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL TO HOLD PANEL DISCUSSION

ON GENDER MAINSTREAMING, 11 JUNE

A panel discussion on “Gender Mainstreaming in the Functional Commissions of the Economic and Social Council” will take place on 11 June from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Economic and Social Council Chamber.

RIGHTS TO DEVELOPMENT, HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT STRESSED AS BALI PREPARATORY

MEETING CONCLUDES MINISTERIAL DISCUSSION

(Received from a UN Information Officer.)

Committee on Elimination of

Discrimination against Women

557^th and 558^th Meetings (AM & PM)

COMMITTEE EXPERTS LUKEWARM ON SITUATION OF WOMEN IN SURINAME,

AS REFLECTED IN THAT COUNTRY'S REPORTS