Security Council

4356^th Meeting (PM)

Security Council

4355^th Meeting (AM & PM)

IN WAKE OF ASSEMBLY CONFERENCE ON SMALL ARMS, SECURITY COUNCIL

EXAMINES ITS ROLE IN IMPLEMENTATION OF ACTION PROGRAMME

Secretary-General Expresses Concern

Over Lack of Binding Norms for Small Arms, Light Weapons

CORRECTION

Round-up

WORLD YOUTH FORUM OF UN SYSTEM CONCLUDES AFTER

ADOPTING DAKAR YOUTH EMPOWERMENT STRATEGY

Delegates from 85 Countries Call for Increased Cooperation with UN Agencies

(Reissued as received.)

COMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS TO HOLD

TWENTY-SIXTH SESSION FROM 13 TO 31 AUGUST

Committee Scheduled to Consider Efforts of Senegal,

Syrian Arab Republic, Panama, Ukraine, Japan, Nepal, and Germany

(Reissued as received.)

UN LOOKS FORWARD TO RECEIVING NEW CAMBODIAN LAW ON KHMER ROUGE TRIALS,

SECRETARY-GENERAL'S SPOKESMAN STATES

Following is the text of a statement attributable to the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

The Secretary-General has noted that His Majesty, King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia, signed the draft law on a special court to try Khmer Rouge leaders today, bringing the legislation into effect.

OBSERVANCE OF INTERNATIONAL DAY OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLE AT HEADQUARTERS TODAY

ALARMED AT ESCALATING MID-EAST VIOLENCE, SECRETARY-GENERAL CALLS

ON ISRAELIS, PALESTINIANS TO EXERCISE RESTRAINT

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

IN STATEMENT TO PREPARATORY COMMITTEE OF RACISM CONFERENCE,

HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSIONER MARY ROBINSON REVIEWS PROGRESS

Following is the statement by Mary Robinson, High Commissioner for Human Rights and Secretary-General of the World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, to the Bureau of the

3rd Preparatory Committee, Thursday, 9 August 2001:

APPOINTMENT OF SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLE ‘A WATERSHED’,

SAYS HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSIONER ROBINSON

The following is the text of today’s statement by the High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson to mark the International Day of the World’s Indigenous People:

PRESS STATEMENT ON SIERRA LEONE BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT

Following is the text of today’s press statement on Sierra Leone by the President of the Security Council, Alfonso Valdivieso (Colombia):

Security Council members heard a briefing by Assistant Secretary-General Annabi on the latest developments in Sierra Leone.