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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

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Sixth Committee

10^th Meeting (AM)

COMPLETION OF TWO FURTHER CONVENTIONS AGAINST TERRORISM

IS URGED IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY’S LEGAL COMMITTEE

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Second Committee

4^th Meeting (AM)

LANDLOCKED DEVELOPING COUNTRIES NEED MORE EQUITABLE WORLD TRADE,

SECOND COMMITTEE TOLD

Geographical Handicaps Keep Them from Being Competitive, Says Delegate

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

First Committee

6^th Meeting (AM)

TRADITIONAL SECURITY CALCULATIONS SHATTERED BY TERRORIST THREATS,

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Plenary

22^nd and 23^rd Meetings (AM & PM)

RESULTS ARE MIXED SO FAR IN IMPLEMENTATION OF MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT

GOALS, SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Assembly Also Takes up His Report on the Work of the Organization

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

General Committee

3rd Meeting (AM)

Economic and Social Council

Resumed Substantive Session

43^rd Meeting* (PM)

TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF MOZAMBIQUE PEACE AGREEMENT MARKED

AT HIGH-LEVEL MEETING OF ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL

Post-Conflict Progress in Many Areas Is Lauded

As Notable Outcome of Self-Help, Cooperation with United Nations Bodies

Economic and Social Council

Resumed Substantive Session

42^nd Meeting (AM)

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL TO CONSIDER ESTABLISHING GROUP

TO EXAMINE HUMANITARIAN, ECONOMIC NEEDS IN GUINEA-BISSAU