Fifty-ninth General Assembly

Sixth Committee

28^th Meeting (PM)

LEGAL COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS UN DECLARATION ON HUMAN CLONING TO GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Vote:  71-35-43

Special Committee on

Decolonization

1^st Meeting (AM)

WAYS MUST BE EXPLORED TO ACCELERATE DECOLONIZATION PROCESS, SPECIAL COMMITTEE TOLD

Committee Elects Officers for 2005, Approves Organization of Work

Fifty-Ninth General Assembly

Plenary

81^st Meeting (AM)

 

GENERAL ASSEMBLY ELECTS RONNY ABRAHAM OF FRANCE TO INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE,

ACTING CONCURRENTLY WITH SECURITY COUNCIL

Will Serve until 5 February 2009 -- Remainder of Nine-Year

Term of Gilbert Guillaume, Who Resigned Effective 11 February

General Assembly

Twenty-eighth Special Session

1^st & 2^nd Meetings (AM & PM)

GENERAL ASSEMBLY MARKS 60^TH ANNIVERSARY OF LIBERATION OF NAZI DEATH CAMPS

Over 40 Speakers Address Day-Long Special Session,

Saying Holocaust Represented Break with Civilization Itself

Fifty-ninth General Assembly

Plenary

80^th Meeting (AM)

General Assembly adopts resolution extending mandates of seven short-term

judges of international criminal tribunal for former yugoslavia

It also Approves List of Civil Society

Groups to Participate in High-Level Review Event on HIV/AIDS

Fifty-ninth General Assembly

Plenary

79^th Meeting (AM)

General Assembly adopts resolution emphasizing need to maintain focus

on tsunami-hit region beyond emergency relief stage

 

Fifty-ninth General Assembly

Plenary

77^th & 78^th Meetings (AM & PM)

Fifty-ninth General Assembly

HIGHLIGHTS

Fifty-ninth General Assembly

Plenary

76^th Meeting (PM)

GENERAL ASSEMBLY APPROPRIATES $53.63 MILLION FOR STRENGTHENED,

UNIFIED UN SECURITY, AS IT CONCLUDES MAIN PART OF 59^TH SESSION

Acts on WideRange of Recommendations from Budget Committee;

Texts on Africa’s Development, Anti-Malaria Decade among Others Adopted

Fifty-ninth General Assembly

Fifth Committee

33^rd Meeting (PM)

BUDGET COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS $53.63 MILLION FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL’S PLAN

FOR STRENGTHENED UN SECURITY, AS IT CONCLUDES CURRENT SESSION

Additional RecommendationsAddressWideRange of Issues,

Including Human Resources Management, UN Oversight Bodies

(Issued on 23 December 2004.)