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General Assembly

16 September 2004

GA/EF/3074

SECOND COMMITTEE APPROVES WORK PLAN FOR FIFTY-NINTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY SESSION

16/09/2004

Press Release
GA/EF/3074

Fifty-ninth General Assembly

Second Committee

1^st Meeting (AM)

Second Committee Approves Work Plan for Fifty-Ninth General Assembly Session

The Second Committee (Economic and Financial) this morning approved its programme of work, as orally amended, for the fifty-ninth General Assembly session.

15 September 2004

GA/10255

GENERAL COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS AGENDA FOR FIFTY-NINTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

15/09/2004

Press Release
GA/10255

GENERAL COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS AGENDA FOR fifty-ninth GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Decides Once Again Not to Recommend Inclusion of Item on ‘Representation of Republic of China (Taiwan)’

14 September 2004

GA/10253

WORLD WAS INCREASINGLY LOOKING TO UN TO HELP RESPOND TO GLOBAL CHALLENGES, NEW GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT SAYS AT OPENING OF FIFTY-NINTH SESSION

14/09/2004

Press Release
GA/10253

WORLD WAS INCREASINGLY LOOKING TO UN TO HELP RESPOND TO GLOBAL CHALLENGES,

NEW GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT SAYS AT OPENING OF FIFTY-NINTH SESSION

14 September 2004

BIO/3600-GA/SPD/282

KYAW TINT SWE OF MYANMAR CHAIRMAN OF FOURTH COMMITTEE

14/09/2004

Press Release
BIO/3600*
GA/SPD/282

Biographical Note

KYAW TINT SWE OF MYANMAR CHAIRMAN OF FOURTH COMMITTEE

Kyaw Tint Swe, Permanent Representative of Myanmar, was elected Chairman of the Fourth Committee (Special Political and Decolonization) on 10 June this year.

Prior to his appointment as Permanent Representative in April 2001, Mr. Swe was Director-General of the International Organizations and Economic Department of his country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

13 September 2004

GA/10252

GENERAL ASSEMBLY CONCLUDES FIFTY-EIGHTH SESSION

13/09/2004

Press Release
GA/10252

Fifty-Eighth General Assembly

Plenary

95^th Meeting (PM)

GENERAL ASSEMBLY CONCLUDES FIFTY-EIGHTH SESSION

The General Assembly closed its fifty-eighth substantive session this afternoon, with outgoing President, Julian Robert Hunte (Saint Lucia), praising the body’s genuine drive to overcome the crisis of confidence that had gripped the United Nations in the wake of the war in Iraq.

10 September 2004

GA/10251

FIFTY-EIGHT GENERAL ASSEMBLY SUBMITS PROVISIONAL AGENDA, WORK PROGRAMME TO FORTHCOMING SESSION

10/09/2004

Press Release
GA/10251

Fifty-eight General Assembly submits provisional agenda,

work programme to forthcoming session

The fifty-eighth session of the General Assembly this morning submitted to the forthcoming session the provisional agenda as well as the programme of work for the Assembly’s plenary meetings.

8 September 2004

GA/10250

GENERAL COMMITTEE SUBMITS PROVISIONAL AGENDA TO GENERAL ASSEMBLY

08/09/2004

Press Release
GA/10250

Fifty-eighth General Assembly

General Committee

6^th Meeting (PM)

GENERAL COMMITTEE SUBMITS PROVISIONAL AGENDA TO GENERAL ASSEMBLY

The General Committee this afternoon submitted the provisional agenda to the General Assembly and recommended the programme of work for the forthcoming plenary session, in accordance with the new approach approved by the Assembly in resolutions on the revitalization of its work.