Background Release

IN SECOND RESUMED SESSION, FIFTH COMMITTEE EXPECTED

TO FOCUS ON PEACEKEEPING FINANCING

SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES ADMINISTERING POWERS TO FIND APPROPRIATE FUTURE

ARRANGEMENTS FOR NON-SELF-GOVERNING TERRITORIES

More Than 80 Million Have Achieved Self-Government

Since 1960, He Says in Message to Pacific Regional Seminar

Committee on NGOs

2002 Session

1^st and 2^nd Meetings (AM & PM))

COMMITTEE ON NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS OPENS 2002 SESSION,

RECOMMENDS 18 GROUPS FOR CONSULTATIVE STATUS

Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues

First Session

1^st Meeting (AM)

PERMANENT FORUM SHOULD BE SHOWCASE FOR CONTRIBUTIONS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES,

DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS AT OPENING SESSION

New UN Body to Meet from 13 to 24 May;

Will Advise ECOSOC on Economic, Social, Cultural, Human Rights Matters

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES HOLDING OF ELECTIONS IN SIERRA LEONE ON 14 MAY

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

IN INTERNATIONAL DAY OF FAMILIES MESSAGE, SECRETARY-GENERAL CALLS

FOR REDOUBLING OF RESOLVE TO BUILD ‘A SOCIETY FOR ALL AGES’

Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message for the International Day of Families, which will be observed on 15 May:

SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON DECOLONIZATION TO HOLD PACIFIC REGIONAL SEMINAR

14-16 MAY AT NADI, FIJI

To Review Political, Economic,

Social Conditions in Small Island Non-Self-Governing Territories

General Assembly

Twenty-seventh Special Session

5^th Meeting (AM)

CHALLENGE OF PROMOTING CHILDREN’S RIGHTS IN FACE OF HIV/AIDS, ECONOMIC SANCTIONS

AMONG ISSUES RAISED, AS GENERAL ASSEMBLY SPECIAL SESSION CONTINUES

Background Release

General Assembly

Twenty-seventh Special Session

6^th Meeting (PM) and

 Round-up

GENERAL ASSEMBLY, CONCLUDING SPECIAL SESSION ON CHILDREN,

ADOPTS OUTCOME DOCUMENT -- ‘A WORLD FIT FOR CHILDREN’