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General Assembly: Meetings Coverage

6 March 2014

GA/AB/4098

Speakers in Fifth Committee Commend Organization’s Emergency Management, Saying Storm Sandy Underlined Importance of Fully Operational System

Good progress was being made on the creation of an emergency management system to better prepare the United Nations to withstand disruptive crises and natural disasters, Secretariat officials and delegates alike told the Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) today as they scrutinized reports on the subject.

3 March 2014

GA/AB/4097

Fifth Committee Opens Resumed Session with Discussion of Joint Inspection Unit’s Oversight Role

The Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) opened the first part of its resumed sixty-eighth session today with a review of its 2014 work programme and organization of work, and of the role of the Joint Inspection Unit in light of its importance in the “United Nations oversight landscape”.

20 February 2014

GA/COL/3259

Special Committee on Decolonization Opens Session, with Deputy Secretary-General Urging Progress on Pending Issues

Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson told the Special Committee on Decolonization as it opened its 2014 substantive session that it was becoming loud and clear and that the time was opportune to push forward on pending issues.

18 February 2014

L/3225

Divergent Views Emerge on Whether UN Charter Committee Is Correct Platform for Discussing Sanctions, as Week-long Session Opens

The Special Committee on the Charter of the United Nations and on the Strengthening of the Role of the Organization opened its 2014 session today, as delegates debated questions surrounding economic sanctions, as well as wide‑ranging issues of reform.

10 February 2014

GA/11483

General Assembly Weighs Progress in Controlling Non-Communicable Diseases ahead of Comprehensive Review

While significant efforts had been made since 2011 to realize pledges to prevent and control non-communicable diseases, progress had been “insufficient” and “highly uneven”, delegates told the General Assembly today, as they weighed priority issues to consider during a comprehensive review of the global situation later this year.

29 January 2014

GA/11482

Just Ahead of Winter Olympics in Russian Federation, General Assembly President Appeals to Member States to Uphold Spirit of Olympic Truce

One week before the Olympic Winter Games were set to begin in the Russian Federation, the President of the General Assembly called on Member States to take concrete steps to promote and strengthen a culture of peace and harmony based on the spirit of the Olympic Truce.

16 January 2014

GA/PAL/1284

Palestinian Rights Committee Opens 2014 Session upon Launch of International Year of Solidarity, as Speakers Outline Steps to Redress ‘Historical Injustices’

During today’s official launch of the International Year of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, the President of the State of Palestine called on the international community to support the observance and expressed hope it would lead to the end of Israel’s 47-year occupation of Palestinian lands and to the creation of an independent Palestinian State with full United Nations membership.

31 December 2013

GA/11480

General Assembly President Urges Decisive Action, Collaboration in Tackling Grinding Poverty, Other Tasks under Budgetary Constraints

Against a backdrop of imminent or impending wars, civil and sectarian bloodshed and strife between and within States, chemical warfare in Syria, grinding poverty and malnutrition, gender violence and deadly climate change impacts, the year ahead was “pivotal” for the 193-nation organ, General Assembly President John Ashe (Antigua and Barbuda) said at the opening of its sixty-eighth session.

27 December 2013

GA/AB/4096

Fifth Committee Recommends $5.53 Billion Budget for 2014-2015 Biennium as It Concludes Main Part of Sixty-eighth Session

After heated negotiations that stretched beyond Christmas Day, the Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) concluded the main part of the sixty-eighth session today, recommending a $5.53 billion budget for the 2014-2015 biennium.

27 December 2013

GA/11479

General Assembly Adopts $5.53 Billion Budget to Fund Worldwide Operations as Main Segment of Sixty-eighth Session Concludes

Concluding the main segment of its sixty-eighth session today, the 193-member General Assembly adopted a $5.53 billion budget to finance United Nations activities over the next two years, including its judicial, humanitarian and peacekeeping operations worldwide.