Fifty-ninth General Assembly

Plenary

4^th Meeting (PM)

SPEAKERS IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY DEBATE STRESS NEED FOR GREATER UNITY,

VIGOROUS MULTILATERAL ACTION TO RESTORE PEACE, SECURITY

One King, 11 Presidents, Five Prime Ministers Participate in Afternoon Session

Fifty-ninth General Assembly

Plenary

3^rd Meeting (AM)

SECRETARY-GENERAL OPENS ANNUAL GENERAL ASSEMBLY DEBATE URGING

WORLD LEADERS TO RESTORE RESPECT FOR RULE OF LAW

 

US President Says Iraq, Afghanistan ‘On Path to Democracy, Freedom’;

Calls on Member States to Do More to Help Build Secure, Federal, Free Iraq

General Assembly adopts work plan for Fifty-Ninth Session

 

Acting on the recommendations of its General Committee, the General Assembly this morning adopted its work plan for the fifty-ninth session.

With the adoption of its organization of work and agenda, contained in document A/59/250, the Assembly decided that its current session would recess on Tuesday, 14 December, and close on Monday, 12 September 2005.

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)’

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Fifty-eighth General Assembly                              

General Assembly Plenary