Fifty-ninth General Assembly

Sixth Committee

6^th Meeting (AM)

 

LEGAL COMMITTEE SPEAKERS LAUD START OF JUDICIAL FUNCTIONING

of international criminal court; growing adherence noted

 

Fifty-ninth General Assembly

Second Committee

12^th Meeting (PM)

ECONOMIC COMMITTEE TOLD OF PROGRESS BY UN-HABITAT IN EASING

problems of water supply, sanitation in slum areas

 

Agency Said to Need Increased Funds to Reach Millennium

Goals; Debate Concludes on Global Conference on Development Financing

(Issued on 15 October 2004.)

Fifty-ninth General Assembly

First Committee

9^th Meeting (PM)

Disarmament committee concludes general debate

 

The First Committee (Disarmament and International Security) this afternoon heard the final speaker in its general debate, which began on 4 October.

Fifty-ninth General Assembly

Fifth Committee

8^th Meeting (AM)

Pace, methods of General Assembly management reform debated in budget committee

(Issued on 15 October 2004.)

Fifty-ninth General Assembly

Plenary

30^th & 31^st Meetings (AM & PM)

REAFFIRMING SUPPORT FOR POPULATION, DEVELOPMENT GOALS, SPEAKERS IN GENERAL

Deputy Secretary-General says profound, far-reaching gains in population issues

tempered by ‘unfinished agenda’, at General Assembly commemoration

Following are Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette’s remarks to the General Assembly commemoration of the tenth anniversary of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in New York, 14 October:

UN constant partner, ally of women in work for equal rights,

says Deputy Secretary-General at Headquarters observance

 

Following are Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette’s remarks on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the adoption of the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women, in New York, 13 October:

Thank you.  I am delighted to be with you for this special anniversary.

CÔTE D’IVOIRE FACES RISE IN POLIO

 

(Issued on 15 October 2004)

STATEMENT BY COMMITTEEON WOMEN’S RIGHTS

 

(Issued on 14 October 2004.)

Following is the statement released by the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women on 13 October to commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the adoption of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women:

Secretary-General committed to preventing illegal use

 

of Un vehicles, facilities by armed militia

 

The following statement on the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan: