Security Council

4502^nd Meeting (PM)

SECURITY COUNCIL, SUPPORTING ‘INCREMENTAL’ UN APPROACH TO PEACE-BUILDING

Special Committee on

Decolonization

2^nd Meeting (AM)

SPECIAL COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS REMOVAL OF INDEPENDENT EAST TIMOR

SECURITY COUNCIL COMMITTEE CONCERNING SIERRA LEONE ADOPTS

REVISED CONSOLIDATED GUIDELINES FOR ITS WORK

The Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution

Security Council                                               SC/7344

Security Council                                            SC/7343

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:

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: