COMMITTEE AGAINST TORTURE HEARS FROM SECRETARY-GENERAL’S

REPRESENTATIVE AT OPENING OF THIRTY-FIRST SESSION

(Reissued as received.)

GENEVA, 10 November -- The Committee against Torture opened this morning its thirty-first session by hearing an address from Jane Connors, a Representative of the Secretary-General, and adopting its agenda.

Fifty-eighth General Assembly

Third Committee

37^th & 38^th Meetings (AM & PM)

ADDRESSING THIRD COMMITTEE, ACTING HIGH COMMISSIONER STRESSES LINK BETWEEN PROMOTION

OF HUMAN RIGHTS, POVERTY ERADICATION AND DEVELOPMENT

Issues Related to Migrants, Cambodia also Discussed

Fifty-eighth General Assembly

Second Committee

31^st Meeting (PM)

ISRAEL STILL DESTROYING OCCUPIED TERRITORIES, SECOND COMMITTEE

DELEGATES SAY AT CONCLUSION OF DEBATE ON ARAB SOVEREIGNTY

Fifty-eighth General Assembly

Second Committee

Panel Discussion on “Globalization”

IN SECOND COMMITTEE PANEL DISCUSSION, TOP ECONOMIST CALLS FOR MORE SENSIBLE,

MODEST, HUMANE APPROACH TO GLOBALIZATION

Fifty-eighth General Assembly

Fifth Committee

18^th Meeting (AM)

MORE STREAMLINED, FLEXIBLE BUDGETARY PROCESS NEEDED,

SAY SPEAKERS IN FIFTH COMMITTEE DEBATE

Fifty-eighth General Assembly

Plenary

59^th Meeting (AM)

GENERAL ASSEMBLY ADOPTS TEXTS TO REINFORCE ‘CULTURE OF PEACE’

IN CONFLICT-RIDDEN WORLD

Also Elects 29 Countries to UNEP Governing

Council for Four-Year Terms Beginning 1 January 2004

HEAD OF UN HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS OFFICE VISITS NORTHERN UGANDA,

SAYS ‘DEEPLY SHOCKED’ BY ‘WAR AGAINST CHILDREN’

UNCTAD REVIEW NOTES REBOUND IN WORLD SEABORNE TRADE

IN 2002, FURTHER INCREASE EXPECTED THIS YEAR

(Reissued as received.)

SECRETARY-GENERAL CONGRATULATES CANADA FOR RATIFICATION

OF UN LAW OF SEA CONVENTION

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

GENUINE DEMOCRACY AT HOME, EFFECTIVE MULTILATERALISM ABROAD SUREST PATHS

TO PEACE, DEVELOPMENT SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN SANTIAGO ADDRESS

Following is the text of Secretary-GeneralKofi Annan’s address to Chilean Parliamentarians in Santiago, 6 November: