Security Council

5071^st Meeting (AM)

Security Council is told Darfur situation deteriorating,

 

tension at highest level, fighting more widespread

 

In Monthly Briefing on Sudan, Secretary-General’s Special

Representative Suggests Three-Pronged Approach to Reverse Current Trend

Security Council

5070^th Meeting (AM)

Vacancy on International Court of Justice to be FILLED

 

by election on 15 February 2005

By Unanimous Resolution 1571 (2004), Security Council Sets Date;

Action Follows Resignation, Noted with Regret, of Judge Gilbert Guillaume

United Nations projects world population to stabilize

 

at around 9 billion people by year 2300

 

Without Continuing Fertility Declines in Developing World,

Figure Could Reach 44 Billion by 2100, According to Projections

Fifty-ninth General Assembly

Third Committee

36^th & 37^th Meetings (AM & PM)

THIRD COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS SECOND DECADE OF WORLD’S INDIGENOUS PEOPLE;

 

CONTINUES DISCUSSION OF RACISM, SELF-DETERMINATION

Six Draft Resolutions Adopted on Youth, UN Crime Programme,

Drug Control, Violence Against Women, Indigenous People, INSTRAW

Fifty-Ninth General Assembly

Second Committee

25^th & 26^th Meetings (AM & PM)

second committee debate on United Nations operational activities begins

 

with call for better planning, funding, coordination

Resident Coordinators Should Report

On Progress in Meeting Goals, Says Under-Secretary-General

Fifty-ninth General Assembly

First Committee

22^nd Meeting (AM)

Text urging negotiations on Fissile Material Treaty

 

approved by Disarmament Committee

 

Fifty-ninth General Assembly

Fifth Committee

20^th Meeting (AM)

Fifty-ninth General Assembly

Plenary                                                    

49^th Meeting (AM)

FIGHTING IN CÔTE D’IVOIRE JEOPARDIZES HUMANITARIAN AID

 

NEW YORK, 4 November(UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs) -- An eruption of fighting around the Ivorian city of Bouaké, some 300 km north of Abidjan, threatens to cut thousands of people off from urgently needed humanitarian aid.  Due to tensions across Côte d’Ivoire, United Nations humanitarian workers are suspending their activities throughout the country today.

Secretary-General saddened by death of United Arab Emirates

President Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahayan

 

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

The Secretary-General learned with profound sadness yesterday of the death of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahayan, President of the United Arab Emirates.