Fifty-ninth General Assembly

Third Committee

48^th & 49^th Meetings (AM & PM)

Seven Draft Resolutions On Human Rights, Advancement of Women

Approved By Third Committee

 

Topics Include Right to Food, Human

Trafficking, Globalization, Coercive Measures, Mercenaries

Committee on the Inalienable Rights

of the Palestinian People

282^nd Meeting (AM)

acting on four draft resolutions, palestinian rights committee urges General

Assembly to demand end to israel’s settlement activities in occupied lands

In First Formal Meeting Since Yasser Arafat’s

Death, Member Delegations Pay Tribute to Fallen Palestinian Leader

Fifty-ninth General Assembly

Sixth Committee

27^th Meeting (PM)

Legal Committee Text Calls for Further Discussions

 

on Human Cloning Aimed at ‘Declaration’

 

Recommends Establishment of Working Group to Convene in February;

Also Approves Text on International Criminal Court, as Session Concludes

Fifty-ninth General Assembly

Fifth Committee

25^th Meeting (AM)

Fifty-ninth General Assembly

Plenary

57^th (resumed) Meeting (AM & PM)

GENERAL ASSEMBLY, IN RESUMED MEETING, ELECTS 14 JUDGES TO INTERNATIONAL

CRIMINAL TRIBUNAL FOR FORMER YUGOSLAVIA

 

The General Assembly today, following seven rounds of voting over two days, elected 14 judges to the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), for four-year terms beginning on 17 November 2005.

Secretary-General calls for steps to unleash Africa’s productive energies,

 

in message on Africa Industrialization Day

 

Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message on Africa Industrialization Day, observed on 20 November:

The theme of this year’s observance of Africa Industrialization Day is “Strengthening Productive Capacity for Poverty Reduction within the Framework of NEPAD”.

Convention on certain conventional weapons is ‘living instrument’ that can be

 

modernized to meet new challenges, Secretary-General tells Geneva meeting

Following is the message by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the 2004 Meeting of the States Parties to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons in Geneva, 18-19 November, delivered by Enrique Román-Morey, Deputy Secretary-General of the Conference on Disarmament:

Resources approved by global AIDS Fund must reach those who need them quickly,

 

new contributions must follow, Secretary-General tells arusha meeting

microcredit extends same rights to poor as are available to evERYone else, says

 

Secretary-General in message to launch ceremony for international year

 

Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s video message on the launch of the International Year of Microcredit today, 18 November:

Sudan grave challenge not only to Africa, ‘but to all humanity’,

 

says Secretary-General to Nairobi Security Council meeting

The following is the statement by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the Security Council meeting on the Sudan, in Nairobi, Kenya, on 18 November:

I first would like to thank our distinguished President, Ambassador John Danforth.  It is because of his initiative that we are here.