Fifty-ninth General Assembly

Fifth Committee

28^th Meeting (AM)

BUDGET COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS $21.8 MILLION FOR SUDAN ADVANCE TEAM;

ALSO APPROVES TEXT ON BOARD OF AUDITORS’ REPORT

 

Fifty-ninth General Assembly

Plenary

61^st Meeting (PM)

QUARTET’S ROAD MAP STILL BEST WAY TO ACHIEVE LASTING PEACE

 

IN MIDDLE EAST, GENERAL ASSEMBLY TOLD

 

GENERAL COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS INCLUSION OF ADDITIONAL SUB-ITEM ON ASSISTANCE

TO POORMOUNTAIN COUNTRIES ON CURRENT GENERAL ASSEMBLY AGENDA

 

The General Committee this morning recommended that an additional sub-item on providing development assistance to poor mountain countries be included on the General Assembly’s current agenda, under agenda item 85 on sustainable development, and that it be allocated to the Second Committee (Economic and Financial).

international migration expanding, but absence of well crafted

 

policies bedevils its positive aspects

 

NEW YORK, 29 November -- An orderly, controlled migration of persons across borders benefits both sending and receiving countries on the whole, a United Nations report released today finds.  However, migration’s positive aspects intertwine with the difficulties it poses in a complex pattern.

Secretary-General Kofi Annan travelled from the United Republic of Tanzania to Egypt on Monday, 22 November 2004.

UN studying peace plan submitted to Ethiopian Parliament

 

on 25 November, aimed at resolving conflict with Eritrea

 

The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for
Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

‘GLIMMERS OF HOPE’ IN AFRICA NOT ENOUGH - LASTING PEACE MUST BE ESTABLISHED,

 

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN MESSAGE TO LA FRANCOPHONIE SUMMIT

 

(Delayed for translation of text, originally delivered in French.)

New global consensus:  ‘Economic development must be harmonized with nature’,

says Secretary-General in message to Tokyo ‘Zero Emissions’ Symposium

Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message to the Zero Emissions Tenth Anniversary Symposium, delivered by Hans van Ginkel, Rector, United Nations University, in Tokyo, 26 November:

WORKING GROUP ON INTERNET GOVERNANCE CONCLUDES FIRST MEETING IN GENEVA

Note to Correspondents

“IDEALS & REALITY:  CAN THE UN PROMOTE DEMOCRACY?”

 

SUBJECT OF HEADQUARTERS SEMINAR 2 DECEMBER