Commission on the Status of Women

Resumed Forty-fifth Session

18^th Meeting (PM)

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THIRD UN CONFERENCE ON LEAST DEVELOPED COUNTRIES IN BRUSSELS, 14 - 20 MAY;

TO CONFRONT ECONOMIC ISOLATION OF ‘POOREST OF THE POOR’

Global policy-makers will confront the economic isolation and severe poverty of the world's 49 poorest countries at the Third United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries, which will be convened in Brussels, Belgium, from 14 to 20 May.

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COMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS

CONCLUDES TWENTY-FIFTH SESSION

Issues Concluding Observations on Situation in Venezuela, Honduras,

Special Administrative Region of Hong Kong, Republic of Korea, Bolivia, and Togo

(Reissued as received.)

DR. NAFIS SADIK AND JAPANESE ORGANIZATION FOR INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION

IN FAMILY PLANNING WIN 2001 UNITED NATIONS POPULATION AWARD

(Reissued as received.)

      NEW YORK, 11 May (UNFPA) -- Dr. Nafis Sadik, former Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), and the Japanese Organization for International Cooperation in Family Planning will share the 2001 United Nations Population Award.

Committee on Information

Twenty-third Session

6^th Meeting (PM) and Round-up

NEED FOR PARITY AMONG ALL OFFICIAL UN LANGUAGES STRESSED,

AS COMMITTEE ON INFORMATION CONCLUDES SESSION

Draft Resolution Approved by Committee Highlights Importance

Of Closing Digital Divide between Developed and Developing Countries

SECRETARY-GENERAL THANKS US PRESIDENT BUSH FOR COMMITMENT

TO GLOBAL FIGHT AGAINST HIV/AIDS

Following is the text of remarks, as delivered today, by Secretary-General Kofi Annan in Washington, D.C.:

Committee on NGOs

2001 Session

10^th Meeting (PM) 

NGO COMMITTEE HEARS GOVERNMENT COMPLAINTS ALLEGING ABUSE OF RIGHTS

AND PRIVILEGES BY SOME ORGANIZATIONS

HIV/AIDS DEVASTATING RURAL LABOUR FORCE IN MANY AFRICAN COUNTRIES, SAYS FAO

(Reissued as received.)

ROME, 10 May (FAO) -- A new report by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) projects that deaths caused by HIV/AIDS in the

10 most affected African countries will reduce the labour force by as much

SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS WESTERN ASIAN STATES THEY CAN COUNT ON HIS SUPPORT

IN THEIR WORK FOR STABILITY, PROSPERITY AND PEACE

Following is the text of a message from Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the twenty-first session of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), delivered today in Beirut by ESCWA Executive Secretary Mervat Tallawy:

Background Release

STATES PARTIES TO CONVENTION ON LAW OF SEA TO HOLD ELEVENTH MEETING

AT HEADQUARTERS, 14 - 18 MAY

To Consider Budget, Financial Regulations

And Elect New Member of International Tribunal for Law of Sea