GENERAL ASSEMBLY TO HOLD HIGH-LEVEL TALKS ON FINANCING FOR DEVELOPMENT, 27-28 JUNE

Next week’s United Nations General Assembly meeting on follow-up to the historic development summit that took place in Monterrey, Mexico, in 2002, is expected to add momentum to international action on aid, trade and debt relief.

Fifty-Ninth General Assembly

Informal Interactive Hearings

 ‘TOGETHER, WE CAN MAKE POVERTY HISTORY’, SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS CLOSING

SESSION OF GENERAL ASSEMBLY HEARINGS WITH CIVIL SOCIETY

Also Stressing Importance of UN Partnership with Civil Society, Assembly

President Calls Meetings ‘A Milestone’ in Relationship between States, NGOs

Fifty-Ninth General Assembly

Plenary

105^th Meeting (AM & PM)

GENERAL ASSEMBLY BEGINS TWO-DAY DIALOGUE WITH CIVIL SOCIETY,

WITH FOCUS ON UN REFORM PROPOSALS, 2005 WORLD SUMMMIT

Opening First-Ever Meeting, Deputy Secretary-General Says World

Can Tackle Threats Collectively, or Risk Increased Disorder, Inequality

Background Release

ON 23 – 24 JUNE, CIVIL SOCIETY TO PRESENT VIEWS TO GENERAL ASSEMBLY

ON POVERTY, SECURITY, RIGHTS ISSUES FOR 2005 WORLD SUMMIT

 

Fifty-Ninth General Assembly

Plenary

104^th Meeting (AM)*

GENERAL ASSEMBLY ADOPTS $3.2 BILLION 2005-2006 PEACEKEEPING BUDGET;

STRESSES NEED FOR STRONGER MANAGEMENT DURING SURGE IN OPERATIONS

Other Texts Address Elimination of Sexual

Exploitation on Peacekeeping Operations, UN Language Parity

Special Committee on

Decolonization

10^th Meeting (AM)

DECOLONIZATION COMMITTEE TEXT URGES ADMINISTERING POWERS TO PROTECT

NATURAL RESOURCES IN NON-SELF-GOVERNING TERRITORIES

Also Adopts Resolution on Issues in 11 SpecificTerritories

Special Committee on

Decolonization

9^th Meeting (AM)

Decolonization committee urges continued peaceful progress

 

towards act of self-determination in New Caledonia

 

Also Takes Up United StatesVirgin Islands, Bermuda

Special Committee on

Decolonization

8^th Meeting (AM)

DECOLONIZATION COMMITTEE REQUESTS ARGENTINA, UNITED KINGDOM

TO RESUME NEGOTIATIONS ON FALKLAND ISLANDS (MALVINAS)

 

Special Committee on

Decolonization

6^th & 7^th Meetings (AM & PM)

Fifty-ninth General Assembly

Plenary

102^nd Meeting (AM)

GENERAL ASSEMBLY ELECTS JAN ELIASSON OF SWEDEN AS PRESIDENT OF SIXTIETH SESSION,

ALSO DECIDES ON OFFICERS FOR MAIN COMMITTEES

The General Assembly this morning elected, by acclamation, Jan Eliasson of Sweden as the President of its sixtieth session, which is scheduled to open in September.