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GA/L/3716

Sixth Committee Hears Concerns Over Evolving Threats of Terrorism in Sahel, New Technologies, Interference in Domestic Affairs, as Debate Continues

Continuing its debate on measures to eliminate international terrorism, Sixth Committee (Legal) speakers expressed concerns over the threats posed by the scourge in the Sahel region and the evolution of new and emerging terrorist threats, while others stressed that terrorism should not be a pretext to interfere in domestic affairs of States.

GA/SPD/800

Decolonization Committee Chair, in Organizational Meeting, Urges Collaboration, as Delegates Contest Time Constraints During Busy Work Programme

The Fourth Committee (Special Political and Decolonization) approved its programme of work for the General Assembly’s seventy-ninth session today, with topics ranging from the decolonization of the 17 remaining Non-Self-Governing Territories to the work of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA).

GA/L/3714

With World Crises Much Different than Past Sessions, Legal Committee Deliberates Measures to Eliminate International Terrorism, as Seventy-Ninth Session Begins

As the Sixth Committee (Legal) began its debate on measures to eliminate international terrorism at the first meeting of its seventy-ninth session today, speakers grappled with how to effectively marshal national and regional efforts and engage international law to address this phenomenon in a world that looks far different than the one they confronted one year ago.