Press Release

Fifty-eighth General Assembly

Third Committee

34^th & 35^th Meetings (AM & PM)

SOCIAL COMMITTEE APPROVES DRAFT RESOLUTIONS ON YOUTH, WOMEN, PALESTINIAN CHILDREN;

BEGINS DISCUSSION OF HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES

Fifty-eighth General Assembly

Sixth Committee

23^rd Meeting (AM)

LEGAL COMMITTEE, ENDING SESSION, RECOMMENDS THAT GENERAL ASSEMBLY

DEFER FOR TWO YEARS CONSIDERATION OF HUMAN CLONING

Action on Pending Drafts Not Taken; Texts Approved on Effects of Sanctions

On Third States, Backlog of Two Publications, International Law Commission Report

Fifty-eighth General Assembly

Second Committee

27^th & 28^th Meetings (AM & PM)

DELEGATES IN SECOND COMMITTEE UNDERSCORE NEED TO BOOST FUNDING FOR UN-HABITAT,

IMPLEMENT PROGRAMME FOR LEAST DEVELOPED COUNTRIES

Committee Tackles Two Topics, Concludes International Trade and Development Debate

FOLLOWING ARE SUMMARIES OF STATEMENTS MADE TO TODAY’S SECOND COMMITTEE (ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL).  A COMPLETE SUMMARY OF TODAY’S MEETING WILL APPEAR AFTER THE MEETING’S CONCLUSION AS PRESS RELEASE GA/EF/3061.

Background

Fifty-eighth General Assembly

First Committee

23^rd Meeting (PM)

DISARMAMENT COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS 2006 CONFERENCE TO REVIEW PROGRESS

AGAINST ILLICIT SMALL ARMS TRADE, AS IT CONCLUDES SESSION

Fifty-eighth General Assembly

Plenary

58^th Meeting (AM)

AFRICAN COUNTRIES CALL FOR CONTINUED ASSISTANCE TO DEAL WITH LANDMINES,

AS GENERAL ASSEMBLY CONCLUDES MINE ACTION DISCUSSION

Fifty-eighth General Assembly

General Committee

4^th Meeting (AM)

GENERAL COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS DEFERRAL OF QUESTION OF COMORIAN ISLAND

OF MAYOTTE TO GENERAL ASSEMBLY’S FIFTY-NINTH SESSION

GOVERNMENTS AT MEXICO CITY CONFERENCE AGREE ON STEPS

TO BOLSTER ADMINISTRATION AND MAKE DEMOCRACY WORK

(Received from a UN Information Officer.)

Disarmament Commission

2003 Organizational Session

257^th Meeting (AM)

DISARMAMENT COMMISSION HOLDS ORGANIZATIONAL SESSION;

WILL MEET AT HEADQUARTERS 5 - 23 APRIL 2004

The Disarmament Commission, in its 2003 organizational session held this morning, adopted the agenda for its 2004 substantive session, to be held in New York from 5 to 23 April, and elected its Bureau.

CHILDREN TO CONVEY THEIR VISION OF CLEANER, HEALTHIER WORLD

IN THIRTEENTH GLOBAL PAINTING CONTEST, ‘SEAS AND OCEANS’

NAIROBI, 5 November (UNEP) -- Children are being urged to pick up their paint brushes to capture on canvas the beauty, romance and threats to the marine world.