SECRETARY-GENERAL PRESENTS REPORT ‘IN LARGER FREEDOM’ TO GENERAL ASSEMBLY,

 

OUTLINING AMBITIOUS PLAN FOR UNITED NATIONS REFORM

 

Says Package Gives Equal Weight to Organization’s Three Great

Purposes – Development, Security, Human Rights – Underpinned by Rule of Law

Fifty-Ninth General Assembly

Plenary

82^nd Meeting (AM)

GENERAL ASSEMBLY ADOPTS UNITED NATIONS DECLARATION

 

ON HUMAN CLONING BY VOTE OF 84-34-37

Fifty-Ninth General Assembly

Plenary

81^st Meeting (AM)

 

GENERAL ASSEMBLY ELECTS RONNY ABRAHAM OF FRANCE TO INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE,

ACTING CONCURRENTLY WITH SECURITY COUNCIL

Will Serve until 5 February 2009 -- Remainder of Nine-Year

Term of Gilbert Guillaume, Who Resigned Effective 11 February

General Assembly

Twenty-eighth Special Session

1^st & 2^nd Meetings (AM & PM)

GENERAL ASSEMBLY MARKS 60^TH ANNIVERSARY OF LIBERATION OF NAZI DEATH CAMPS

Over 40 Speakers Address Day-Long Special Session,

Saying Holocaust Represented Break with Civilization Itself

Fifty-ninth General Assembly

Plenary

80^th Meeting (AM)

General Assembly adopts resolution extending mandates of seven short-term

judges of international criminal tribunal for former yugoslavia

It also Approves List of Civil Society

Groups to Participate in High-Level Review Event on HIV/AIDS

Fifty-ninth General Assembly

Plenary

79^th Meeting (AM)

General Assembly adopts resolution emphasizing need to maintain focus

on tsunami-hit region beyond emergency relief stage

 

Fifty-ninth General Assembly

Plenary

77^th & 78^th Meetings (AM & PM)

Fifty-ninth General Assembly

HIGHLIGHTS

Fifty-ninth General Assembly

Plenary

76^th Meeting (PM)

GENERAL ASSEMBLY APPROPRIATES $53.63 MILLION FOR STRENGTHENED,

UNIFIED UN SECURITY, AS IT CONCLUDES MAIN PART OF 59^TH SESSION

Acts on WideRange of Recommendations from Budget Committee;

Texts on Africa’s Development, Anti-Malaria Decade among Others Adopted

Fifty-ninth General Assembly

Plenary

75^th Meeting (AM)

GENERAL ASSEMBLY ADOPTS 40 RESOLUTIONS, Five DECISIONS

 

ON WIDERANGE OF ECONOMIC, FINANCIAL ISSUES

 

Importance of Open, Transparent, Inclusive Trading System Emphasized;

Poverty, Corruption, Disaster Relief, Sustainable Development also Addressed