BIO/4652*-GA/SPD/553
Durga Prasad Bhattarai, Permanent Representative of Nepal to the United Nations, was elected Chair of the Fourth Committee (Special Political and Decolonization Committee) on 18 June 2014.
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General Assembly: Press Release
BIO/4651*-GA/SHC/4096
Sofia Mesquita Borges, Permanent Representative of Timor-Leste to the United Nations, was elected Chair of the Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural Committee) on 18 June 2014.
BIO/4650*-GA/EF/3394
Sebastiano Cardi, Permanent Representative of Italy to the United Nations, was elected Chair of the Second Committee (Economic and Financial) on 18 June 2014.
BIO/4649*-GA/DIS/3496
Courtenay Rattray, Permanent Representative of Jamaica to the United Nations, was elected Chair of the First Committee (Disarmament and International Security) on 18 June.
BIO/4635-GA/11548
Sam Kahamba Kutesa was elected President of the United Nations General Assembly’s sixty-ninth session on 11 June.
GA/PAL/1311
The Bureau of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People issued the following statement today:
GA/11535-OBV/1355
The United Nations General Assembly will mark Nelson Mandela International Day with an informal meeting on Friday, 18 July, honouring the South African leader’s contributions to democracy, racial justice and reconciliation.
GA/PAL/1310
The Bureau of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People issued the following statement today:
GA/PAL/1307
NAIROBI, 2 July — Ahead of the closing today of the United Nations Seminar, participants considered mobilization of global assistance to the Palestinian people and its effective use for sustainable growth in the context of a new aid paradigm, hearing that foreign aid might not be the key to unlock development, as many had thought.
GA/PAL/1306
NAIROBI, 2 July — The United Nations Seminar on Assistance to the Palestinian People, held at the United Nations Headquarters in Nairobi from 1 to 2 July, focused today on the Palestinian National Development Plan 2014-2016, titled “Long-term strategies of the State of Palestine for Economic Development and Growth”.