Following is the statement by the President of the General Assembly, Theo- Ben Gurirab (Namibia), to the Third Security Summit of United Nations Personnel in New York, on 15 June:
Beginning the fourth day of the second part of its 2000 session, scheduled for 12 to 23 June, the Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) this morning continued reviewing applications for consultative status within the Economic and Social Council.
The current requests for consultative status were deferred from previous sessions of the Committee in 1998 and 1999.
Secretary-General Kofi Annan departed New York on Friday afternoon, 9 June, for Washington, D.C., where he delivered a keynote address that evening to the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee.
Following is the text of the message of General Assembly President Theo-Ben Gurirab (Namibia) on the occasion of the World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought:
Continuing hostilities in the Equateur and Kasai provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, uninterrupted violence in Kivu and heavy fighting between foreign armies in the city of Kisangani were among the key elements of the Congolese crisis, the President of the Security Council said this afternoon.
Assembly Observes Minute of Silence for President Al-Assad Of Syria; Text on UNIFIL Adopted by Recorded Vote of 110-2-0
The representative of Austria introduced her countrys third, fourth and fifth periodic reports on compliance with the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women this morning, highlighting the advances made on improving the quality of life for women in that country.
