Plenary


GA/10289
28/10/2004
Press Release
GA/10289

Fifty-ninth General Assembly

Plenary

45th Meeting (PM)


GENERAL ASSEMBLY, IN TWO ROUNDS OF VOTING, ELECTS 16 MEMBERS OF ECONOMIC


AND SOCIAL COUNCIL FOR TERM BEGINNING 1 JANUARY 2005


In two rounds of voting, the General Assembly this afternoon elected 16 new members to the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) for terms beginning on 1 January 2005.

GA/10288
28/10/2004
Press Release
GA/10288

Fifty-ninth General Assembly

Plenary

44th Meeting (AM)


GENERAL ASSEMBLY, FOR THIRTEENTH STRAIGHT YEAR, ADOPTS RESOLUTION


ON ENDING UNITED STATES EMBARGO AGAINST CUBA

 


For the thirteenth straight year, the General Assembly today overwhelmingly adopted a resolution on the perennial necessity of ending the four-decade-old economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States against Cuba.