WORLD WAS INCREASINGLY LOOKING TO UN TO HELP RESPOND TO GLOBAL CHALLENGES,

NEW GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT SAYS AT OPENING OF FIFTY-NINTH SESSION

Biographical Note

KYAW TINT SWE OF MYANMAR CHAIRMAN OF FOURTH COMMITTEE

Kyaw Tint Swe, Permanent Representative of Myanmar, was elected Chairman of the Fourth Committee (Special Political and Decolonization) on 10 June this year.

Prior to his appointment as Permanent Representative in April 2001, Mr. Swe was Director-General of the International Organizations and Economic Department of his country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Fifty-Eighth General Assembly

Plenary

95^th Meeting (PM)

GENERAL ASSEMBLY CONCLUDES FIFTY-EIGHTH SESSION

The General Assembly closed its fifty-eighth substantive session this afternoon, with outgoing President, Julian Robert Hunte (Saint Lucia), praising the body’s genuine drive to overcome the crisis of confidence that had gripped the United Nations in the wake of the war in Iraq.

Fifty-eight General Assembly submits provisional agenda,

 

work programme to forthcoming session

 

The fifty-eighth session of the General Assembly this morning submitted to the forthcoming session the provisional agenda as well as the programme of work for the Assembly’s plenary meetings.

Fifty-eighth General Assembly

General Committee

6^th Meeting (PM)

GENERAL COMMITTEE SUBMITS PROVISIONAL AGENDA TO GENERAL ASSEMBLY

The General Committee this afternoon submitted the provisional agenda to the General Assembly and recommended the programme of work for the forthcoming plenary session, in accordance with the new approach approved by the Assembly in resolutions on the revitalization of its work.

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General Assembly Plenary                                         

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Tenth Emergency Special Session                            

24^th Meeting (AM & PM)

Fifty-eighth General Assembly