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Today we received this info from LW: The UN Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict, Radhika Coomarawamy, will visit Afghanistan from 28 June to 3 July to inaugurate the monitoring and reporting system introduced by Security Council resolution 1612 in 2005 and to ascertain the impact of the conflict on children. Please find, and disseminate to your local media, a press release on the visit. Also, www.un.org/childrenconflict >for more background, please check the CAAC website and the following documents. - Annual report including Afghanistan: http:// daccessdds.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N07/656/04/PDF/N0765604.pdf?OpenElement - Webpage on Afghanistan - Bio of the SRSG - Res 1612&Monitoring and Reporting Mechanism - SC working Group on CAAC Thank you and best regards, Margaret Novicki Chief, Communications Campaign Service Department of Public Information United Nations, New York

Press Release - PI/1513 of 29 Sept 2003: UN's only Farsi web site goes online: http://www.unic-ir.org DPI's disability website : http:// www.un.org/disabilities/ And we had a notice informing us of the DPI Focal Point for this issue, Franck Kuwonu, at e-mail kuwonu@un.org, tel 212.963.8264. "We would appreciate your sending us any clippings or interesting news that results from your work, so that we can keep the substantive offices informed."...