Security Council

4340^th Meeting (AM)

COUNCIL, BRIEFED BY SECRETARY-GENERAL’S SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE IN SIERRA LEONE,

CONSIDERS RECENT SIGNS OF PROGRESS IN PEACE PROCESS

The peace process in Sierra Leone had witnessed remarkable changes in magnitude and patterns of development in recent months, the Security Council was told this morning as it met to consider the situation in the West African State.

Security Council

4339^th Meeting (AM)*

EXAMINING IMPLICATIONS OF HIV/AIDS FOR UN PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS,

COUNCIL WARNS OF POTENTIAL RISK TO STABILITY, SECURITY

In Presidential Statement S/PRST/16, Council President

Stresses Pandemic’s Potentially Damaging Impact on Peacekeepers’ Health

Security Council

Resumed 4336^th Meeting (PM)

IRAQ CLAIMS FULL COMPLIANCE WITH SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTIONS;

FOREIGN AFFAIRS MINISTER SAYS ALL OBLIGATIONS MET

Other Speakers, Challenging Assertion, Say Suffering

Of Iraqi People, Though Regrettable, Is Fault of Government

Security Council

4336^th Meeting (PM)

IN SECURITY COUNCIL DEBATE, GOVERNMENTS STRESS NEED TO ALLEVIATE HUMANITARIAN

SITUATION IN IRAQ WHILE ENSURING FULL COMPLIANCE WITH COUNCIL RESOLUTIONS

Security Council

4335^th Meeting (AM)

SECURITY COUNCIL EXAMINES INPUT FROM RECENT MISSION TO KOSOVO,

SEES POLITICAL COMMITMENT OF MINORITIES AS MAJOR CHALLENGE

Security Council

4334^th Meeting (AM & PM)

SECURITY COUNCIL, IN DAY-LONG DEBATE ON CONFLICT PREVENTION, EXAMINES MECHANISMS

FOR MOVING ‘FROM CULTURE OF REACTION TO ONE OF PREVENTION’

Security Council

4333^rd Meeting (AM)

COUNCIL, UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTING RESOLUTION 1357 (2001),

EXTENDS UNMIBH MANDATE TO 21 JUNE 2002

The Security Council this morning extended the mandate of the United Nations Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina (UNMIBH) until 21 June 2002.

Security Council

4332^nd Meeting (PM)

COUNCIL EXEMPTS NON-LETHAL MILITARY EQUIPMENT FROM EMBARGO

ON WEAPONS DELIVERIES TO SOMALIA

SECURITY COUNCIL VISITS KOSOVO

PRISTINA, 17 June -- The Security Council -- on the first-ever mission of all 15 members -- completed a two-day visit to Kosovo with an appeal to both Kosovo Albanian and Kosovo Serb leaders to shun extremism and commit all efforts to building a multi-ethnic society.

SECURITY COUNCIL EXPRESSES SUPPORT FOR KOSOVO WOMEN NGOS

Representatives of Kosovo women’s non-governmental organizations and civil society met last night with the President of the United Nations Security Council, Ambassador Anwarul Chowdhury of Bangladesh, along with the Ambassadors of Colombia, Jamaica, Singapore, the United Kingdom and the United States.