Fifty-ninth General Assembly

Plenary

115^th Meeting (PM)

 ‘UNITING FOR CONSENSUS’ GROUP OF STATES INTRODUCES TEXT

ON SECURITY COUNCIL REFORM TO GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Proposes Maintaining Permanent 5, with 20 Elected Members

Disarmament Commission

2005 Organizational Session

266^th Meeting (Resumed) (AM)

Disarmament commission adopts 2005 report

 

The Disarmament Commission adopted its 2005 report today, concluding its resumed organizational meeting begun last December to formulate an agreed agenda for its next substantive session, scheduled for three weeks in April 2006.

FIRST CHILDREN’S WORLD SUMMIT FOR ENVIRONMENT CONVENES IN JAPAN,

WILL SEND MESSAGE TO SEPTEMBER WORLD SUMMIT IN NEW YORK

 

(Reissued as received.)

NAIROBI/NAGOYA, 25 July (UNEP) - Around 600 children aged 10 to 14 from 65 countries are gathering this week in Aichi Prefecture, Japan for the first ever Children’s World Summit for the Environment.

SECRETARY-GENERAL, WITH ‘SORROW AND ANGER’, CONDEMNS USE OF TERROR,

VIOLENCE AGAINST CIVILIANS, FOLLOWING MULTIPLE CAR BOMBS IN SINAI

The following statement was issued on Saturday, 23 July, by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

SECRETARY-GENERAL, AT HEADQUARTERS MEETING, OUTLINES PROPOSALS TO HELP

MAKE REGIONAL ORGANIZATIONS ‘TRUE PARTNERS’ FOR UN IN PEACE, SECURITY

Following are UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s remarks to the sixth high-level meeting with heads of regional and other intergovernmental organizations in New York, 25 July:

SEVENTEEN MORE NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS ASSOCIATED

 

WITH UN PUBLIC INFORMATION DEPARTMENT, 46 DISASSOCIATED

 

1,533 Organizations Work with Department in Communications, Information Outreach

GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT SALUTES FEDERATION OF FORMER CIVIL SERVANTS

FOR COMMITMENT, ADVOCACY IN SUPPORT OF UN, AT NEW YORK SESSION

 

(Delayed for technical reasons.)

Following is the statement by General Assembly President Jean Ping (Gabon) during the thirty-fourth session of the Council of the Federation of Associations of Former International Civil Servants (FAFICS) in New York, 1 July:

Economic and Social Council

2005 Substantive Session

38^th Meeting (AM)

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL ADOPTS 43 TEXTS RECOMMENDED

 

BY 61^ST SESSION OF HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION

 

Rejects Text on Human Rights and Responsibilities;

Reparations, Country-Specific Situations among WideRange of Issues

Disarmament Commission

2005 Organizational Session

266^th Meeting (Resumed) (PM)

DISARMAMENT COMMISSION CONTINUES DEBATE ON 2005 REPORT

The Disarmament Commission today continued debate on its 2005 report, in the wake of a proposed amendment on Friday to one agenda item.

Committee on Elimination of

Discrimination against Women

701^st Meeting (PM)

Women’s anti-discrimination committee concludes thirty-third session, Stressing

 

need to eliminate stereotypes, withdraw convention reservations

Experts Examined Reports of 8 States Parties to Convention