Background Release

HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE TO HOLD SEVENTY-SIXTH SESSION

IN GENEVA FROM 14 OCTOBER TO 1 NOVEMBER

Experts to Examine Reports of Egypt and Togo

(Reissued as received.)

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Third Committee

14^th and 15^th Meetings (AM & PM)

TRAFFICKING IN HUMAN BEINGS CONDEMNED, AS THIRD COMMITTEE

CONTINUES DEBATE ON WOMEN’S ISSUES

Committee Approves Seven Draft

Resolutions On Crime Prevention, Drug Control

Committee on Inalienable Rights

of the Palestinian People

266^th Meeting (AM)

PALESTINIAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE URGES SUSTAINED INTERNATIONAL PRESSURE ON ISRAEL

FOR FULL IMPLEMENTATION OF SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION 1435 (2002)

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Sixth Committee

12^th Meeting (PM)

ISSUES OF DISPUTE SETTLEMENT, PEACEKEEPING, SANCTIONS ARE REVIEWED

AS LEGAL COMMITTEE ENDS DEBATE ON CHARTER REPORT

Observer Status with General Assembly Is Recommended

For International Centre for Migration Policy Development

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

First Committee

9^th & 10^th Meetings (AM & PM)

THREAT OF CONFLICT IN SOUTH ASIA, USE OF TERROR AS ‘STRATEGIC WEAPON’

Ad Hoc Committee to Review

New Agenda for Development of Africa

PM Meeting

GENERAL ASSEMBLY’S AD HOC COMMITTEE ON FINAL REVIEW OF NEW AGENDA

FOR DEVELOPMENT OF AFRICA NOTES AMENDMENTS TO ITS DRAFT REPORT

RETURNING FROM DROUGHT-HIT ERITREA, EMERGENCY RELIEF

COORDINATOR CALLS FOR URGENT ASSISTANCE

ASMARA, 10 October -- Kenzo Oshima, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, wrapped up his

three-day mission to Eritrea today.  He had visited Eritrea at the request of the Secretary-General to observe first-hand the severe drought affecting the country and to report back.

PRAISING ANTI-DRUG EFFORTS OF CIVIL-SOCIETY GROUPS, SECRETARY-GENERAL

STRESSES THAT GOVERNMENTS 'CANNOT DO THE JOB ALONE'

Biographical Note

SECRETARY-GENERAL APPOINTS NEW FORCE COMMANDER FOR UNITED NATIONS

MISSION IN ETHIOPIA AND ERITREA

Secretary-General Kofi Annan has today appointed Major-General Robert Gordon of the United Kingdom as the new Force Commander of the United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE).  The Major-General is expected to arrive in the Mission area by late October 2002.

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Fourth Committee

9^th Meeting (AM)

FOURTH COMMITTEE APPROVES TEXT ENDORSING OUTER SPACE COMMITTEE’S WORK,

PREPARATIONS FOR 2004 GENERAL ASSEMBLY REVIEW OF UNISPACE III