COMMITTEE AGAINST TORTURE TO HOLD TWENTY-NINTH SESSION

AT PALAIS WILSON FROM 11 TO 22 NOVEMBER

Experts Scheduled to Consider Reports

From Spain,Egypt, Estonia, Cyprus and Venezuela

Background Release                                          HR/4626*

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Third Committee

40^th Meeting (PM)

GENERAL ASSEMBLY TO BE ASKED TO ADOPT PROTOCOL ON TORTURE CONVENTION,

SETTING UP INSPECTION REGIME FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF ITS TERMS

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Third Committee

39^th Meeting (AM)

UN REFUGEE HIGH COMMISSIONER REPORTS DROP IN NUMBER OF PEOPLE NEEDING PROTECTION,

SAYS NEW APPROACH NEEDED TO IMPROVE COOPERATION, IN STATEMENT TO THIRD COMMITTEE

Also Describes 'Development Through Local Integration' Concept;

Suggests New Agreements Needed to Address Nexus Between Migration, Asylum

Committee on the Inalienable Rights

of the Palestinian People

267^th Meeting (AM)

ADOPTING FOUR DRAFT TEXTS, PALESTINIAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE STRESSES

COMMITMENT TO TWO-STATE VISION IN MIDDLE EAST

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Sixth Committee

28^th Meeting (AM)

WORK TO CONTINUE TOWARDS CONVENTION AGAINST HUMAN CLONING;

CONCERN EXPRESSED AT LACK OF TEMPORARY MORATORIUM

In other Action, Legal Committee - Ending Current Session – Approves

Texts on International Terrorism, Host Country Relations, Law Commission Report

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Second Committee

28^th Meeting (PM)

SECOND COMMITTEE DISCUSSES IMPACT OF ISRAELI OCCUPATION

ON PALESTINIANS AND ARABS OF SYRIAN GOLAN

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Second Committee

27^th Meeting (AM)

SPEAKERS EXPRESS CONCERN OVER SHORTFALL IN FUNDING FOR INSTITUTE AS SECOND

COMMITTEE TAKES UP QUESTION OF TRAINING AND RESEARCH

Meeting also Considers Report of United Nations University Council

WE CANNOT BE INDIFFERENT TO GENETICALLY MODIFIED CROPS,

SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS IN INTRODUCING LECTURE SPEAKERS

Following are Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s remarks today on introducing Professor Daphne Preuss and Professor Jennifer Thomson as speakers in the Secretary-General’s lecture series:

I am delighted to welcome you to the second lecture in this series.  It promises to be a highly exciting one.

Security Council

4643^rd Meeting (PM)

SECURITY COUNCIL FOCUSES ON KOSOVO MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS, SECURITY OF MINORITIES AFTER UNDER-SECRETARY-GENERAL'S BRIEFING