BUREAU OF PALESTINIAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE WELCOMES SECURITY COUNCIL’S RESOLUTION

ENDORSING ‘ROAD MAP’ TO SOLUTION OF ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT

On 19 November 2003, the Bureau of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People issued the following statement concerning the adoption by the Security Council of resolution 1515 (2003):

Salil Shetty appointed as Director of Millennium Development Goals Campaign

Security Council

4864^th Meeting (PM)

SECURITY COUNCIL EXPRESSES INTENTION TO ADDRESS MINE ACTION IN PEACEKEEPING

MANDATES, CITING LONG-TERM EFFECTS OF LANDMINES ON PEACE, SECURITY

Citing the long-term consequences of landmines and unexploded ordnance on peace and security, the Security Council this afternoon expressed its intention to address mine action in the mandates of peacekeeping operations when appropriate.

Security Council

4863^rd Meeting (PM)

SECURITY COUNCIL CONDEMNS CONTINUING EXPLOITATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES

IN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO

Presidential Statement Emphasizes Connection

Security Council

4862^nd Meeting (PM)

SECURITY COUNCIL ADOPTS RESOLUTION ENDORSING ROAD MAP LEADING TOWARDS TWO-STATE

RESOLUTION OF ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT

The Security Council this afternoon endorsed the Middle East Quartet’s Road Map towards a permanent, two-State solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Security Council

4861^st Meeting* (AM)

PERIOD OF INERTIA, EXCUSES, CONDITIONALITY IN MIDDLE EAST PEACEMAKING

MUST END, UNDER-SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS SECURITY COUNCIL

The period of inertia, excuses and conditionality in Middle East peacemaking must end, the Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, Kieran Prendergast, said this morning, as he briefed the Security Council.

SURPRISE RESULTS IN RANKING OF GLOBAL ACCESS TO COMMUNICATIONS

TECHNOLOGY; SLOVENIA, REPUBLIC OF KOREA AMONG LEADERS

Findings in International Telecommunication Union Report

Will Be Discussed at Forthcoming World Summit on Information Society

UNITED NATIONS OIL-FOR-FOOD PROGRAMME FOR IRAQ TO END ON 21 NOVEMBER;

COALITION PROVISIONAL AUTHORITY TO TAKE RESPONSBILITY

Seven-Year Effort Mandated by Security Council -– Operated By Nine

Agencies –- Brought Humanitarian Relief to Victims of Post-Conflict Sanctions

Fifty-eighth General Assembly

Third Committee

50^th & 51^st Meetings (AM & PM)

THIRD COMMITTEE APPROVES DRAFT RESOLUTION CALLING FOR IMPARTIALITY,

OBJECTIVITY IN INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION ON HUMAN RIGHTS

Committee Hears Introduction of 13 Drafts on Human Rights

HUMANITARIAN SITUATION IN COTE D’IVOIRE COULD WORSEN

AS ETHNIC, POLITICAL VIOLENCE PREVENTS ACCESS