GENERAL COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS INCLUSION OF ADDITIONAL SUB-ITEM ON ASSISTANCE

TO POORMOUNTAIN COUNTRIES ON CURRENT GENERAL ASSEMBLY AGENDA

 

The General Committee this morning recommended that an additional sub-item on providing development assistance to poor mountain countries be included on the General Assembly’s current agenda, under agenda item 85 on sustainable development, and that it be allocated to the Second Committee (Economic and Financial).

Fifty-ninth General Assembly

Fourth Committee

25^th Meeting (PM)

Fifty-ninth General Assembly

Third Committee

53^rd & 54^th Meetings (AM & PM)

Concluding Current Session, third committee decides to take no action

 

on human rights situations in sudan, zimbabwe

Approves Draft on Human Rights in Democratic Republic of Congo; Texts on Racism,

Fifty-Ninth General Assembly

Second Committee

36^th Meeting (AM)

second committee approves draft resolution calling upon israel

 

not to exploit natural resources in occupied arabterritories

 

Acting Without Vote, Delegates Approve Six Other

Drafts, Including Texts on Natural Disaster, Protection of Global Climate

Fifty-ninth General Assembly

Fifth Committee

27^th Meeting (AM)

Fifty-ninth General Assembly

Third Committee

51^st & 52^nd Meetings (AM & PM)

third committee approves draft resolutions on children’s rights,

self-determination, new international humanitarian order

In Seven Separate Recorded Votes,

Delegates Reject Amendments to Omnibus Text on Rights of Child

Fifty-ninth General Assembly

Plenary

60^th Meeting (AM)

GENERAL ASSEMBLY URGES STATES TO FURTHER INTEGRATE PUBLIC HEALTH INTO NATIONAL

DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES, AS IT CONCLUDES DEBATE ON MILLENNIUM SUMMIT REVIEW

Also Hears Introduction of Draft Resolution,

Speakers on Occupied Territories of Azerbaijan

Third Committee approves draft resolutions on extrajudicial

executions, elimination of religious intolerance

 

Fifty-ninth General Assembly

Fifth Committee

26^th Meeting (AM)

Fifty-ninth General Assembly

Plenary

58^th & 59^th Meetings (AM & PM)

GENERAL ASSEMBLY discusses PREPARATIONS FOR 2005 high-level

review of MILLENNIUM SUMMIT, major un conferences

Also Adopts Resolution Commemorating Sixtieth Anniversary of End of

Second World War, Declares 8, 9 May ‘Days of Remembrance, Reconciliation’