Background Release

COMMISSION ON POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT TO MEET FROM 1-5 APRIL

Theme:  Reproductive Rights, Health with Special Reference to HIV/AIDS

Reproductive rights and reproductive health, with special reference to HIV/AIDS will be the theme of the thirty-fifth session of the Commission on Population and Development, to be held at Headquarters from 1 to 5 April.

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN APRIL 2002

The following is a tentative list of United Nations meetings scheduled to be held in April, including major meetings of intergovernmental organizations related to the United Nations:

Meetings continued from previous month:

PHYSICAL ACTIVITY IS ANTIDOTE TO SEDENTARY, UNHEALTHY LIFESTYLES,

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN WORLD HEALTH DAY MESSAGE

Following is the message by Secretary-General Kofi Annan on World Health Day, 7 April:

“Move for Health”, the theme for World Health Day 2002, is literally a call to action.

Human Rights Committee

Seventy-fourth Session

1999^th & 2000^th Meetings* (AM & PM)

HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE DISCUSSES DRAFT GENERAL COMMENTS

ON REPORTING OBLIGATIONS, NATIONAL LEGAL OBLIGATIONS

PRESS STATEMENT ON DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO

BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT

Following is the text of today's press statement on the Democratic Republic of the Congoby the President of the Security Council, Ole Peter Kolby (Norway):

SECRETARY-GENERAL CONGRATULATES PAPUA NEW GUINEA ON PARLIAMENTARY ENDORSEMENT

OF BOUGAINVILLE PEACE AGREEMENT

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

Commission on Sustainable Development

Acting as Preparatory Committee for

 World Summit on Sustainable Development

2^nd Meeting (AM)

COMMISSION ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT HEARS FROM VICE-PRESIDENT OF UGANDA

ON LAND, WATER MANAGEMENT

Security Council

4498^th Meeting (AM)

ASSISTANT SECRETARY-GENERAL BRIEFS SECURITY COUNCIL ON RECENT EVENTS IN KOSOVO,

INCLUDING AGREEMENT ON PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT, RETURN OF ALBANIAN PRISONERS

Serbia’s Deputy Prime Minister Says ‘Trouble Ahead’

Without Progress in 2002 on Building Institutions, Multi-Ethnic Society

UN ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMME CONFIRMS LOW-LEVEL DEPLETED URANIUM CONTAMINATION

IN SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO, URGES PRECAUTIONARY MEASURES

(Reissued as received.)

SECRETARY-GENERAL CONDEMNS SUICIDE BOMB ATTACK ON ISRAEL

AS 'MORALLY REPUGNANT', HARMFUL TO PALESTINIAN CAUSE

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