Note to Correspondents

HEADS OF STATE TO PARTICIPATE IN UN TREATY EVENT, 23-26 SEPTEMBER

HIGH-LEVEL PANEL CALLS FOR FURTHER MEASURES TO BATTLE

RACIAL DISCRIMINATION AND BIAS

(Reissued as received.)

STAFF COUNCIL ESTABLISHES RELIEF FUND FOR VICTIMS AND FAMILIES

OF BOMBING IN IRAQ, DONATES INITIAL $25,000

General Assembly Plenary

Tenth Emergency Special Session

20^th Meeting (AM)                                           

GENERAL ASSEMBLY, MEETING IN RESUMED EMERGENCY SPECIAL SESSION,

Fifty-eighth General Assembly

Plenary

2^nd Meeting (AM)

GENERAL ASSEMBLY ADOPTS WORK PLAN FOR FIFTY-EIGHTH SESSION

Acting on the recommendations of its General Committee, the General Assembly this morning adopted its work plan for the fifty-eighth session.

AS ZIMBABWE’S FOOD NEEDS INCREASE, UN HUMANITARIAN AGENCIES

STEP UP OPERATIONS TO ADDRESS UNDERLYING CAUSES

NEW YORK, 18 September -- United Nations humanitarian agencies in Zimbabwe are stepping up operations to address food shortages and their underlying causes.  The United Nations has also identified the need to strengthen a national immunization programme, which has been affected by the country’s economic downturn.

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Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs [OCHA]

LIBERIA: BETTER ACCESSIN LIBERIAREVEALS ACUTE HUMANIATARIANAINNEEDS

HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS OFFICE IN GUINEA REPORTS INCREASING

NUMBERS OF REFUGEES CROSSING BORDER FROM LIBERIA

STATEMENT BY ECOSOC AD HOC ADVISORY GROUP ON GUINEA-BISSAU

NEW YORK, 18 September -- The Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) Ad Hoc Advisory Group on Guinea-Bissau hereby calls on donors to consider extending emergency assistance for Guinea-Bissau to be able to return to democratic rule following the resignation of President Kumba Yala.

2 MILLION ANGOLAN FARMERS TO GET SEEDS, TOOLS IN FAO’S LARGEST AFRICAN OPERATION

(Reissued as received.)

ROME/NAIROBI, 19 September (FAO) -- Almost 2 million Angolans will receive agricultural emergency assistance in the next few weeks before the start of the rainy season, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said today.