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General Assembly: Meetings Coverage


GA/L/3489

Commencing deliberations in the Sixth Committee (Legal) on the ‘second cluster’ of topics of the annual report, the Chair of the International Law Commission introduced the four topics, highlighting the conclusion of consideration of the “obligation to extradite or prosecute” (aut dedere aut judicare), and the start of its work on “protection of the atmosphere”.

GA/SPD/568

Nothing represented the best of the United Nations globally than the sight of blue helmets safeguarding peace day in and out in difficult locations, the representative of Indonesia said this morning, as the Fourth Committee (Special Political and Decolonization) continued its comprehensive review of peacekeeping operations, during which speakers laid out their vision for a process that responded to new challenges without abandoning traditional tenets.

GA/SHC/4112

Civil society spaces were shrinking around the world as ordinary people’s lives were being changed without their input and against their will, the Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) heard today as it continued its consideration of human rights, with presentations by six experts who had investigated problems in specific countries, and two reporting on global issues.

GA/EF/3407

“While the world has sufficient capacity and resources to ensure adequate food and good nutrition for the global population, over 800 million people are still suffering from chronic hunger”, Viet Nam’s representative told the Second Committee (Economic and Financial) today as it met to discuss agriculture development, food security and nutrition.

GA/SPD/567

The “remarkable” scale of United Nations peacekeeping operations, where personnel often operated in remote areas, across massive distances and in increasingly hostile environments, came alive today in the Fourth Committee (Special Political and Decolonization) during briefings by senior Secretariat officials, as that body began its annual comprehensive review of the subject.