SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES TONI MORRISON AS INAUGURAL SPEAKER IN LECTURE SERIES

Following are the remarks of Secretary-General Kofi Annan introducing Toni Morrison as the first lecturer in the Secretary-General’s Lecture Series, 24 June:

I am delighted, but not surprised, to see so many of you here this afternoon.  And I am well aware that you have come to listen to Professor Toni Morrison, not to me.

PRESS STATEMENT ON BURUNDI BY PRESIDENT OF SECURITY COUNCIL

Following is today’s press statement on Burundi by the President of the Security Council, Mikhail Wehbe (Syria):

The Members of the Security Council:

encourage the facilitation, Tanzania and the region to continue efforts aimed at helping the belligerents in Burundi reach a ceasefire agreement;

AIDS AWARENESS HIGH, BUT BEHAVIOUR REMAINS RISKY, ACCORDING TO NEW STUDY

BY UN POPULATION DIVISION

Committee on Elimination of

Discrimination against Women

567^th Meeting (PM)

COMMITTEE ON ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN

CONCLUDES TWENTY-SEVENTH SESSION

Country Reports of Seven States Parties Considered; Provisional Agenda

For Extraordinary August Session, Twenty-Eighth Regular Session Adopted

Security Council

4557^th Meeting* (AM)

LOYA JIRGA A TRULY REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLE OF AFGHAN SOCIETY,

SECURITY COUNCIL TOLD IN BRIEFING ON AFGHANISTAN

Under-Secretary-General Says Success Marked

HEADQUARTERS MEETING WARNS BURUNDI’S CRITICAL ECONOMIC SITUATION

ENDANGERS FRAGILE PEACE PROCESS

PRESS STATEMENT ON KUWAITI PROPERTIES REPORT BY PRESIDENT OF SECURITY COUNCIL

Following is today’s press statement on the Kuwaiti Properties Report by the President of the Security Council Mikhail Wehbe (Syrian Arab Republic):

Security Council

4558^th Meeting (PM)

SECURITY COUNCIL EXTENDS MANDATE OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA MISSION UNTIL 30 JUNE

The Security Council this afternoon extended the mandate for the United Nations Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina (UNMIBH), due to expire today, until

30 June.

SECRETARY-GENERAL PAYS TRIBUTE TO WINNERS OF 2002 NANSEN REFUGEE AWARD

FOR RESCUE OF 438 BOAT PEOPLE IN INDIAN OCEAN

Following is the message by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the Nansen Refugee Award Ceremony in Oslo today, delivered by Ruud Lubbers, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees:

SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR CHILDREN AND ARMED CONFLICT VISITS INGUSHETIYA