Fifty-sixth General Assembly

Plenary

103^rd and 104^th Meetings (AM & PM)

CONCLUDING TWO-DAY SESSION ON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES FOR DEVELOPMENT,

ASSEMBLY HEARS CALLS FOR POLITICAL COMMITMENT BY DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

India Stresses Education as Bridge over Digital Divide;

Cuba Says International Assistance Crucial to Countries Still Lacking Basic Needs

Special Committee on

Decolonization

7^th Meeting (AM)

SPECIAL COMMITTEE APPROVES DRAFT TEXTS ON TOKELAU,

Fifty-sixth General Assembly

Fifth Committee

60^th Meeting (AM)

FIFTH COMMITTEE, CONCLUDING SECOND RESUMED SESSION, RECOMMENDS

$2.6 BILLION FOR 12 PEACEKEEPING MISSIONS FOR 2002-2003

Committee Favours Concept of Strategic Deployment Stocks Proposed

By Secretary-General to Allow for Rapid Deployment of Peacekeeping Operations

CEOs pledge no less than 20 per cent of Philanthropic budgets

to ICT for development

Microsoft Joins Hewlett Packard, Equitable Cardnetwork, Masreya,

MIH Group, Vivendi Universal as Signatory of CEO Charter for Digital Development

Fifty-sixth General Assembly

Plenary

101^st & 102^nd Meetings (AM & PM)

'DIGITAL DIVIDE' STILL YAWNS AS WIDELY AS EVER, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL,

AS GENERAL ASSEMBLY OPENS TWO-DAY SESSION ON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES

Senegal's President Cites Hopeful Signs of 'Digital Revolution' for Africa;

Speakers Say New Technologies Must Be Used to Reach Millennium Development Goals

Ad Hoc Committee to Review

New Agenda for Development of Africa

PM Meeting

GENERAL ASSEMBLY BODY CREATED TO REVIEW UN’S AGENDA FOR AFRICAN

DEVELOPMENT IN 1990S HOLDS ORGANIZATIONAL SESSION

Assembly President Says Africa’s Development Daunting Challenge;

Background Release

GENERAL ASSEMBLY TO HOLD HIGH-LEVEL MEETING ON INFORMATION

AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES FOR DEVELOPMENT, 17-18 JUNE

To address the digital gap that still excludes two thirds of humankind from the benefits of the digital revolution, the General Assembly will hold a high-level meeting devoted to information and communication technologies (ICT) for development on 17 and 18 June, in the Trusteeship Council Chamber.

Special Committee on

Decolonization

5^th and 6^th Meetings (AM & PM)

DECOLONIZATION COMMITTEE URGES UNITED STATES TO HALT MILITARY MANOEUVRES

ON VIEQUES ISLAND, RETURN OCCUPIED LAND TO PEOPLE OF PUERTO RICO

Special Committee on

Decolonization

4^th Meeting (AM)

SPECIAL COMMITTEE HEARS FROM REPRESENTATIVES OF GIBRALTAR, WESTERN SAHARA

Right to Self-Determination of Peoples of Both Territories Stressed

The Special Committee on Decolonization must be bolder and do more to ensure the right to self-determination of the peoples of Gibraltar and Western Sahara, it was told this morning by representatives of those Territories.

Fifty-sixth General Assembly

Plenary

100^th Meeting (AM)

GENERAL ASSEMBLY FILLS VACANCY ON CONTRIBUTIONS COMMITTEE

Pays Tribute to Joseph N. Garba of Nigeria,

President of Forty-Fourth General Assembly, Who Died 1 June

The General Assembly this morning appointed Michel Tilemans (Belgium) as a member of the Committee on Contributions from 6 June to 31 December 2002.