Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Plenary

24^th and 25^th Meetings (AM & PM)

FOCUS ON CONFLICT PREVENTION AS GENERAL ASSEMBLY CONTINUES DEBATE ON WORK

OF ORGANIZATION AND FOLLOW-UP TO MILLENNIUM SUMMIT

STATEMENT OF SECRETARY-GENERAL ON CYPRUS

      Following is today’s statement on Cyprus by Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

I have completed this afternoon two days of intensive consultations on Cyprus with His Excellency Mr. Glafkos Clerides, the Greek Cypriot leader, and His Excellency Mr. Rauf Denktash, the Turkish Cypriot leader.

ADDRESSING SECURITY COUNCIL, SECRETARY-GENERAL ENDORSES

THREE-PRONGED COUNTER-TERRORISM STRATEGY

Following is the statement by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the Security Council at today’s meeting to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the Committee on Counter-Terrorism:

Your meeting today reflects your determination to confront reality rather than escape from it; to recognize an evil rather than excuse it. 

UNLESS PROGRESS CAN BE SPEEDED UP DRAMATICALLY, MOST PLEDGES IN MILLENNIUM

DECLARATION WILL NOT BE FULFILLED, SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Following is the statement, as delivered, by Secretary-General Kofi Annan in the General Assembly today:

Biographical Note                                            SG/A/818

Security Council

4618^th Meeting* (AM & PM)

SECURITY COUNCIL CONSIDERS TERRORISTS THREATS TO INTERNATIONAL PEACE, SECURITY

Secretary General, Chairman of Counter-Terrorism Committee

Address Meeting; Several Speakers Stress Need to Address Terrorism’s Root Causes

UNITED NATIONS MEMBER STATES

These are the 191 Member States of the United Nations with dates on which they joined the Organization, following the admission of Switzerland on

10 September and Timor-Leste (East Timor) on 27 September:

Member            Date of Admission

Afghanistan       19 Nov. 1946

Round-up

COMMITTEE ON RIGHTS OF CHILD CONCLUDES THIRTY-FIRST SESSION

Recommendations Adopted on Argentina, United Kingdom, Seychelles,

Sudan, Ukraine, Republic of Moldova, Burkina Faso, Poland and Israel

(Reissued as received.)

GENEVA, 4 October (UN Information Service) -- The Committee on the Rights of the Child concluded its thirty-first session today, having considered reports of

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Fourth Committee

6^th Meeting (PM)

RIGHT OF NON-SELF-GOVERNING TERRITORIES TO SELF-DETERMINATION REAFFIRMED,

AS FOURTH COMMITTEE APPROVES NINE DECOLONIZATION TEXTS

Small Island Territories, Western Sahara,

Natural Resource Exploitation among Other Issues Addressed

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Third Committee

8^th Meeting (AM)

‘YOUTH BOOM’, ‘AGE QUAKE’, EMERGING AS MAJOR CHALLENGES FOR BOTH

DEVELOPING, DEVELOPED COUNTRIES, THIRD COMMITTEE TOLD