GREAT LAKES REGION WITNESSING GLIMMER OF HOPE AS LEADERS MAKE STRATEGIC DECISION

TO PURSUE PEACE, SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE IN TANZANIA

Following is the address delivered today by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the International Conference on Peace, Security, Democracy and Development in the Great Lakes Region, taking place in Dar es Salaam, United Republic of Tanzania:

Secretary-General ‘absolutely outraged’ by gross misconduct

by peacekeeping personnel in Democratic Republic of Congo

 

Following is the statement by Secretary-General Kofi Annan on allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse in the United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC), issued today in Dar es Salaam, United Republic of Tanzania:

Security Council

5082^nd Meeting* (AM)

SECURITY COUNCIL NAIROBI MEETING WELCOMES END OF YEAR

PEACE PLEDGE BY PARTIES TO SUDAN CONFLICT

Donors Reaffirm Commitments to Help Rebuild Sudan, but Challenge

Parties to Stand by Promise to Reach Comprehensive Agreement by End of 2004

(Received from a UN Information Officer.)

UNITED NATIONS LAUNCHES INITIATIVE TO FACILITATE ASSESSMENT

OF HUMANITARIAN IMPACTS OF SANCTIONS

 

NEW YORK 19 November (OCHA) -- Today the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) is launching a new initiative to assess the potential humanitarian implications of sanctions.

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

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.