WORLD SUMMIT POLITICAL DECLARATION SHOULD CONTAIN CLEAR, FORCEFUL,

COMPREHENSIVE COMMITMENT TO ACTION, PREPARATORY MEETING TOLD

(Received from a UN Information Officer.)

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;

Secretary-General Kofi Annan arrived in Moscow from Kiev early in the afternoon of Tuesday 4 June.

Fifty-sixth General Assembly

Plenary

100^th Meeting (AM)

GENERAL ASSEMBLY FILLS VACANCY ON CONTRIBUTIONS COMMITTEE

Pays Tribute to Joseph N. Garba of Nigeria,

President of Forty-Fourth General Assembly, Who Died 1 June

The General Assembly this morning appointed Michel Tilemans (Belgium) as a member of the Committee on Contributions from 6 June to 31 December 2002.

PARTNERSHIP INITIATIVES SHOULD NOT SUBSTITUTE FOR GOVERNMENT COMMITMENTS

TO PROMOTE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, SPEAKERS STRESS

(Received from a UN Information Officer.)

Committee on Elimination of

Discrimination against Women

555^th and 556^th Meetings (AM & PM)

WOMEN’S ANTI-DISCRIMINATION COMMITTEE TAKES UP PERIODIC REPORTS OF UKRAINE;

EXPERTS STRESS NEED TO INCREASE WOMEN’S REPRESENTATION IN DECISION-MAKING

Quotas among Temporary Measures Envisioned by Convention;

DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL, AT BALI LAUNCH OF THIRD ‘GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT OUTLOOK’,

SAYS IT DEPICTS ENVIRONMENT AT RISK, BUT PROVIDES VISION FOR WISE USE

Following are the remarks of Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette at the political launch of the United Nations Environment Programme’s third Global Environment Outlook in Bali on 6 June:

Special Committee on

Decolonization

4^th Meeting (AM)

SPECIAL COMMITTEE HEARS FROM REPRESENTATIVES OF GIBRALTAR, WESTERN SAHARA

Right to Self-Determination of Peoples of Both Territories Stressed

The Special Committee on Decolonization must be bolder and do more to ensure the right to self-determination of the peoples of Gibraltar and Western Sahara, it was told this morning by representatives of those Territories.

IMPORTANCE OF PROMOTING PARTNERSHIPS TO FOSTER ACQUISITION, USE

OF MODERN TECHNOLOGY HIGHLIGHTED IN BALI DISCUSSIONS

(Received from a UN Information Officer.)