Background Release

COMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS TO HOLD

TWENTY-FIFTH SESSION, 23 APRIL - 11 MAY

Committee Will Consider Reports of Venezuela,

Honduras, China: Hong Kong, Republic of Korea and Bolivia

(Reissued as received.)

Disarmament Commission

2001 Substantive Session

246^th Meeting (AM)

DISARMAMENT COMMISSION HEARS PROGRESS REPORTS FROM WORKING GROUPS

ON NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT, CONVENTIONAL ARMS

The Disarmament Commission met this morning to hear progress reports from the chairs of its two working groups and to elect two vice-chairmen from the Group of African States.

Security Council

4311^th Meeting (PM)

SECURITY COUNCIL EXTENDS MANDATE OF BODY INVESTIGATING VIOLATIONS

OF ANGOLA SANCTIONS, UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTING RESOLUTION 1348 (2001)

The Security Council this afternoon extended the mandate of the Monitoring Mechanism on Angola Sanctions until 19 October and requested it to provide a supplementary report by that date.

Commission on Sustainable Development

Ninth Session

8^th Meeting (AM)

SECRETARY-GENERAL ‘DELIGHTED’ BY PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES’ WITHDRAWAL

OF LEGAL ACTION AGAINST SOUTH AFRICAN GOVERNMENT

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

Commission on Sustainable Development

Ninth Session

9^th Meeting (PM)

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION HEARS 31 SPEAKERS IN HIGH-LEVEL SEGMENT;

ENERGY DEVELOPMENT, CLIMATE CHANGE AMONG ISSUES HIGHLIGHTED

Security Council

4310^th Meeting (PM)

HEAD OF PEACEKEEPING BRIEFS SECURITY COUNCIL ON ETHIOPIA AND ERITREA;

SAYS FORMAL SEPARATION OF FORCES ACHIEVED ON 18 APRIL

SECRETARY-GENERAL CITES ‘CATALYTIC ROLE’ OF ESCAP IN MAKING GLOBALIZATION

POSITIVE FORCE, IN MESSAGE TO BANGKOK CONFERENCE

   Following is the message of Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the fifty-seventh session of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), delivered on his behalf of the Executive Secretary of ESCAP, Kim Hak-Su, in Bangkok on 19 April:

SECRETARY-GENERAL CONCERNED BY SECURITY, HUMANITARIAN SITUATION

AT BORDERS BETWEEN GUINEA, LIBERIA, SIERRA LEONE

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

SEMINAR ON ‘THE GOVERNANCE OF GLOBALIZATION’ TO BE HELD AT HEADQUARTERS, 2 MAY

NEW YORK, 18 April (UNU) -- The United Nations University (UNU) and the Department of Economic and Social Affairs will host a seminar on “The Governance of Globalization” on Wednesday, 2 May, from 1:15 to 2:45 p.m. in the Dag Hammarskjöld Library Auditorium.