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General Assembly

3 October 2014

BIO/4650*-GA/EF/3394

Sebastiano Cardi of Italy Chair of Second Committee

Sebastiano Cardi, Permanent Representative of Italy to the United Nations, was elected Chair of the Second Committee (Economic and Financial) on 18 June 2014.

3 October 2014

BIO/4649*-GA/DIS/3496

Courtenay Rattray of Jamaica Chair of First Committee

Courtenay Rattray, Permanent Representative of Jamaica to the United Nations, was elected Chair of the First Committee (Disarmament and International Security) on 18 June.

3 October 2014

GA/AB/4117

Budget Committee Adopts Work Programme of Current Session, Considers Proposed Funding for New United Nations Mission to Fight Ebola Outbreak

The Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) today adopted the work programme for its sixty-ninth session and began its examination of the Secretary-General’s budget proposal for the United Nations operation to fight the Ebola outbreak, the Organization’s first-ever emergency health mission.

2 October 2014

GA/SPD/552

Fourth Committee Approves Programme of Work in Organizational Meeting for Sixty-Ninth General Assembly Session

The Fourth Committee (Special Political and Decolonization), in a brief organizational meeting today, approved its work programme for the new session, which contains more than a dozen topics for consideration, including questions relating to peacekeeping, information, outer space, the effects of atomic radiation and the granting of independence to Non-Self-Governing Territories and peoples.

30 September 2014

GA/11566

Resolute Action to Arrest Global Terrorism Vies on World Stage with Effort to Set Transformative Development Agenda, as General Assembly Concludes Debate

Leaders had taken to the world stage since 24 September to spotlight hopes and gains, as well as profound concerns, at the start of a session that United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said could be the “most consequential” in a generation.

29 September 2014

GA/11565

Fears of Widespread Indifference, Attempts to Create ‘Pseudo-Religious’ World Government Dominate Debate in General Assembly

There was a danger of “widespread indifference” when a union of States was passive in the face of hostilities suffered by defenceless populations, the Holy See’s Secretary of State told the General Assembly on the penultimate day of its annual debate.

27 September 2014

GA/11564

Unparalleled Global Pressures Tempered in General Assembly Debate by Appeals to Forge Bonds with Neighbours, Mitigate Man-Made, Natural Disasters

Amid growing global tensions and turmoil, fostering neighbourly relations was vital to national development and prosperity and in keeping with the “surge of democracy” spreading throughout the world, the General Assembly heard today as debate continued into the weekend.

26 September 2014

GA/11563

Leaders Sound Alarm in General Assembly Debate on Unprecedented Mix of Challenges in Middle East, Taking ‘Terror to a New Era and a New Level’

A geographically and sociopolitically diverse group of Heads of State sounded the alarm today about the unprecedented combination of challenges facing the troubled Middle East that was taking “terror to a new era and a new level”, as the General Assembly continued its high-level debate.

25 September 2014

GA/11562

General Assembly Session Pivotal If World Leaders Ensure Effective Custodianship of Environment, Economic Justice, Social Responsibility, Speaker Says in Debate

“If we did what we must, it could be remembered in history as the session that helped us turn the corner in ensuring effective custodianship of the environment, economic justice and social responsibility,” the General Assembly was told today as its annual debate continued.

24 September 2014

GA/11560

‘The Fasten Seat Belt Light is Illuminated’, Warns Secretary-General, Summoning World Leaders at Start of Annual Debate to ‘Find and Nurture Seeds of Hope’

The world’s fasten seat belt light is illuminated, with turbulence testing the multilateral system, national institutions and people's lives, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told the General Assembly today as he opened the sixty-ninth session’s general debate.