PRESIDENT OF UNITED NATIONS SECURITY COUNCIL AND CHAIRMAN

OF MILITARY STAFF COMMITTEE IN DECEMBER

In accordance with the principle of alphabetical rotation, the following are the President of the United Nations Security Council and the Chairman of the Military Staff Committee for December:

Security Council

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN DECEMBER 2002

The following is a tentative list of United Nations meetings scheduled to be held in December, including major meetings of intergovernmental organizations related to the United Nations:

Meetings continued from previous month:

3 September-20 December      Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions, New York

Round-up

COMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS CONCLUDES TWENTY-NINTH SESSION

Issues Conclusions on Reports from Poland,

Slovak Republic, Georgia, Solomon Islands and Estonia

(Reissued as received.)

Committee on the Inalienable Rights

of the Palestinian People

268^th Meeting (AM)

SOLIDARITY DAY WITH PALESTINIANS ‘A DAY OF MOURNING AND A DAY OF GRIEF’

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL, AS HEADQUARTERS OBSERVES INTERNATIONAL DAY

Speakers Call for International Action to Halt Israeli Aggression;

Stress Independent Palestinian State Only Guarantee of Israeli Security

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Plenary

63^rd Meeting (PM)

ASSEMBLY IS TOLD WORLD COMMUNITY MUST WORK HARDER FOR ISRAELI

WITHDRAWAL FROM TERRITORIES, CREATION OF PALESTINIAN STATE

Debate Begins on ‘Question of Palestine’; Israeli Delegate Says

End of Terrorism Must be Price of Political Process, Not Its Reward

DAY OF PALESTINIAN SOLIDARITY `A DAY OF MOURNING

AND A DAY OF GRIEF’, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL

Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s statement on International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, delivered on his behalf by S. Iqbal Riza, Under-Secretary-General and Chef de Cabinet, New York, 29 November:

SECRETARY-GENERAL’S MESSAGE FOR INTERNATIONAL VOLUNTEER DAY

     This is the text of a message by Secretary-General Kofi Annan in observance of International Volunteer Day -- 5 December:

SECRETARY-GENERAL CITES INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY'S COMMITMENT TO ASSISTING

BURUNDI ACHIEVE PEACE, DEVELOPMENT, IN MESSAGE TO GENEVA CONFERENCE

Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan's message to the Burundi Round Table Conference, delivered on his behalf by his Deputy Special Representative for Burundi, Nureldin Satti, in Geneva on 27 November:

MARKING HUMAN RIGHTS DAY, SECRETARY-GENERAL CALLS FOR VISION

TO BRING ABOUT NEW EQUILIBRIUM IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Globalization, Terrorism, Universality of Human Rights

Part of Shift in Interaction between States, Peoples, He Says

Following is the text of the message issued by Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the occasion of Human Rights Day, 10 December: