Fifty-seventh General Assembly

First Committee

17^th Meeting (AM)

URGENT RATIFICATION OF COMPREHENSIVE NUCLEAR-TEST-BAN TREATY

CALLED FOR IN ONE OF NINE TEXTS APPROVED BY FIRST COMMITTEE

United States Votes against Draft;

Says Opposed to CTBT, Will Not Seek Reconsideration of Senate’s Rejection

Trusteeship Council

Sixty-third session

1708^th Meeting (PM)

TRUSTEESHIP COUNCIL MEETS, ELECTS NEW OFFICERS

Meeting for the first time since 1998, the Trusteeship Council this afternoon elected Adam Thomson of the United Kingdom as its President and Michel Duclos of France as its Vice-President.  Both will serve for five year terms in their posts.

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Fifth Committee

12^th Meeting (AM)

FINANCIAL STABILITY OF UN ‘UNDER PRESSURE’ SAYS UNDER-SECRETARY-GENERAL

FOR MANAGEMENT AS FIFTH COMMITTEE CONSIDERS 2002-2003 BUDGET

Speakers also Address Conference Services, Language Parity on UN Web Site,

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Plenary

35^th Meeting (AM)

GENERAL ASSEMBLY, CONCURRENTLY WITH SECURITY COUNCIL, ELECTS

FIVE MEMBERS TO INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE

Judges -- Three New, Two Re-Elected -– Will Serve Nine-year Terms

SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN MESSAGE TO MEETING ON NOBEL PEACE LAUREATES,

SAYS SITUATION OVER IRAQ IS AMONG GRAVEST FACING WORLD TODAY

Principle of Multilateralism Said to Face Critical Test -– Even

Most Powerful Countries Know They Must Work with Others to Achieve Aims

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES SIGNING OF MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN

GOVERNMENT OF SUDAN AND SUDAN PEOPLE'S LIBERATION MOVEMENT

The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

IRAQ TO BEGIN RETURNING KUWAITI ARCHIVES TO KUWAIT ON 19 OCTOBER

The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

Tomorrow, Saturday, 19 October, Iraq will commence returning to Kuwait the Kuwaiti archives, which were taken by Iraq following its occupation of Kuwait in 1990.  The modalities for the transfer were arranged with Iraq and Kuwait by the United Nations in August 2002.

SECRETARY-GENERAL 'EXTREMELY CONCERNED' BY REPORTS OF URANIUM ENRICHMENT

PROGRAMME IN DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF KOREA

The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

SECRETARY-GENERAL APPOINTS NEW MILITARY ADVISER

IN PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS DEPARTMENT

The Secretary-General has appointed Major General Patrick Cammaert as Military Adviser in the Department of Peacekeeping Operations.  The appointment will become effective in November.

Major General Cammaert, a national of the Netherlands, will succeed Major General Tim Ford from Australia.

Security Council

4628^th Meeting (PM)

SECURITY COUNCIL DECIDES TO LIFT TRAVEL BAN AGAINST UNITA MEMBERS, EFFECTIVE

14 NOVEMBER; EXTENDS ANGOLA MONITORING MECHANISM UNTIL 19 DECEMBER

Resolution 1439 (2002) Adopted Unanimously

The Security Council decided to extend the mandate of the Angola monitoring mechanism for a period of two months, until 19 December 2002, as it met on the situation in that country this afternoon.