Security Council

4543^rd Meeting (PM)

SECURITY COUNCIL DEPLORES KOSOVO ASSEMBLY’S RESOLUTION CONCERNING

PROVINCE’S ‘TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY’, IN PRESIDENTIAL STATEMENT

Says Issue Outside Assembly’s Competence,

Concurring with Special Representative, Who Yesterday Vetoed Resolution

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.

Fifty-sixth General Assembly

Fifth Committee

59^th Meeting (AM)

SPEAKERS IN FIFTH COMMITTEE CONCERNED THAT REQUEST FOR ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

COULD IMPLY STEEP INCREASES IN 2002-2003 BUDGET

SECRETARY-GENERAL CONCERNED BY RISING TENSION BETWEEN INDIA, PAKISTAN

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

The Secretary-General is increasingly concerned by the alarming rise in tension between India and Pakistan.  He is in close contact with the leaders of both sides, to encourage them to resolve their differences, including over Kashmir, by peaceful means.

MILITARIZATION OF INDIGENOUS AREAS A GROWING THREAT, PERMANENT FORUM TOLD

(Received from a UN Information Officer.)

NEW YORK, 22 May -- An “alarming increase of militarization in many parts of Asia” was affecting indigenous communities, an indigenous representative today told the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues as it continued to review human rights issues.

PRESS STATEMENT ON KOSOVO BY PRESIDENT OF SECURITY COUNCIL

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

The Members of the Council rejected the resolution adopted by the Kosovo Assembly on 23 May 2002, in which the Assembly rejected the Border Agreement signed last year between the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.

Security Council

4541^st Meeting (AM)

SECURITY COUNCIL EXTENDS AFGHANISTAN SECURITY FORCE FOR SIX MONTHS,

UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTING RESOLUTION 1413 (2002)

Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs

SECRETARY-GENERAL APPOINTS HEIDI TAGLIAVINI OF SWITZERLAND

AS SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR GEORGIA, HEAD OF UNOMIG

Québec DECLARATION ON ECOTOURISM DEFINES

BASIS FOR ITS INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Committee on NGOs

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

COMMITTEE, FOLLOWING ROLL-CALL VOTE, DECIDES NOT TO ACT

ON REPORT BY FREEDOM HOUSE

Committee Recommends Special Status for One Organization,