Under-Secretary-General for Economic And Social Affairs Addresses Committee
The Chairman of the Sixth Committee (Legal) called for a reaffirmation of the importance of legal principles and values in international relations, as the Committee met this morning to organize its schedule for the fifty-fifth session of the General Assembly.
In a short meeting this morning, the Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) elected, by acclamation, Collen Vixen Kelapile (Botswana) as its third Vice-Chairman, thus concluding the organizational part of this session. The decision was taken following consultations within the Group of African States.
Mauritius, Nicaragua, Rwanda, United Republic of Tanzania, Venezuela, Benin, Equatorial Guninea, Uzbekistan Also Speak
Assembly Continues General Debate
The Second Committee (Economic and Financial) this afternoon elected by acclamation Anne Barrington (Ireland) and Mauricio Escanero (Mexico) as Vice- Chairmen. The Committee also adopted its programme of work, as orally amended, for the fifty-fifth session.
The situation in Myanmar had been under unfair scrutiny and the subject of political pressure by a number of powerful countries for quite some time, that countrys Minister for Foreign Affairs, U Win Aung, told the fifty-fifth general session of the General Assembly as it met this afternoon to continue its general debate.
Calling globalization the latest buzzword, Theo-Ben Gurirab, the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Namibia told the General Assemblys general debate this morning that it was merely a new name for an old, cruel and unjust system that had long been willy-nilly imposed upon the peoples of the Third World.
Approves Programme of Work for Fifty-fifth Session
