The Council of Presidents of the General Assembly of the United Nations held its second Special Meeting in Seoul, Republic of Korea, on 15-17 June 2009 at the invitation of Han Seung-soo, President of the fifty-sixth session of the General Assembly and current Prime Minister of the Republic of Korea.

The United Nations Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People will convene the United Nations Asian and Pacific Meeting on the Question of Palestine on 8 and 9 June 2009 at the Hotel Borobudur in Jakarta. The theme of the Meeting is “Strengthening international consensus on the urgency of achieving a two-State solution”. It will be followed, on 10 June 2009, by the United Nations Public Forum in Support of the Palestinian People.

The Special Committee on Decolonization will hold its annual regional decolonization seminar in Saint Kitts and Nevis from 12 to 14 May. It will be the last Caribbean seminar conducted in the framework of the Second International Decade for the Eradication of Colonialism (2001-2010).

The Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, with the agreement of the Government of Cyprus, will convene the United Nations International Meeting in Support of Israeli-Palestinian Peace on 6 and 7 May at the Hilton Park Hotel in Nicosia. Mandated by the United Nations General Assembly, the theme of the Meeting is “Action by European, Arab and other parliamentarians and their umbrella organizations for Israeli-Palestinian peace”.

Although the Disarmament Commission had not been able to agree on elements of a draft declaration of the 2010s as the fourth disarmament decade -- the Commission’s main task this year -- a good basis for next year’s deliberations had been achieved, Commission Chairman Andrzej Towpik ( Poland) told delegates today at the closing of its 2009 substantive session.

24 April 2009

General AssemblyGA/10824

Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

Sixty-third General Assembly

Plenary

81^st Meeting (AM)

22 April 2009

General AssemblyGA/10823

Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

Sixty-third General Assembly

Plenary

80^th Meeting (AM)

GENERAL ASSEMBLY PROCLAIMS 22 APRIL ‘INTERNATIONAL MOTHER EARTH DAY’

ADOPTING BY CONSENSUS BOLIVIA-LED RESOLUTION

 

In Address, Bolivia’s President Says 60 Years after Human Rights

22 April 2009

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GENERAL ASSEMBLY TO CONSIDER DESIGNATING 22 APRIL

 

AS INTERNATIONAL MOTHER EARTH DAY

 

7 April 2009

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GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT ANNOUNCES UNITED NATIONS WILL HOLD JUNE CONFERENCE

TO ASSESS GLOBAL FINANCIAL, ECONOMIC CRISIS

 

7 April 2009

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Sixty-third General Assembly

Plenary

79^th Meeting (AM)

GENERAL ASSEMBLY DECIDES TO CONVENE HIGH-LEVEL CONFERENCE ON WORLD FINANCIAL

CRISIS, AT HEADQUARTERS 1-3 JUNE, ADOPTING RESOLUTION BY CONSENSUS

Also Adopts 11 Texts Recommended by Budget Committee; Peacekeeping Finance,