Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Third Committee

32^nd Meeting (PM)

HUMAN RIGHTS REPORTING PROCESS NEEDS IMPROVEMENT, THIRD COMMITTEE TOLD

Due mainly to a lack of resources, small developing States often faced tremendous difficulties in fulfilling their reporting obligations to international human rights treaty bodies, the representative of Australia told the General Assembly's Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural).

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Sixth Committee

23rd Meeting (AM)

LAW COMMISSION CHAIRMAN SEEKS RESPONSES FROM STATES TO SURVEY

ON TOPIC OF ‘PRACTICES RELATED TO UNILATERAL ACTS’

Legal Committee Reviews More Issues from Commission’s 2002 Report

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Second Committee

23^rd Meeting (PM)

SECOND COMMITTEE UNANIMOUSLY APPROVES RESOLUTION DECLARING 2003 THE YEAR

OF KYRGYZ STATEHOOD, TAKES UP GLOBALIZATION AND INTERDEPENDENCE

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

First Committee

25^th Meeting (AM)

ANTARCTIC TREATY RECOGNIZED AS FURTHERING UN CHARTER PRINCIPLES,

IN DRAFT RESOLUTION APPROVED BY FIRST COMMITTEE

Committee Concludes Work for Current Session

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Fifth Committee

19^th Meeting (AM)

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Plenary

42^nd Meeting (AM)

CONSTRUCTIVE SPIRIT PREVAILS, PRESIDENT SAYS, AS GENERAL ASSEMBLY

CONCLUDES DISCUSSION ON STREGTHENING UNITED NATIONS

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Plenary

40^th and 41^st Meetings (AM & PM)

DELEGATES QUESTION PROPOSED ABSORPTION OF INFORMATION CENTRES INTO REGIONAL

HUBS, AS ASSEMBLY CONTINUES DISCUSSION OF SECRETARY-GENERAL’S REPORT

CORRECTION

On page 7 of Press Release GA/10092 of 31 October, paragraphs 3 and 4 should read as follows:

MINISTERS CALL FOR EFFECTIVE ACTION IN LIMITING EMISSIONS

AND REDUCING VULNERABILITY TO CLIMATE CHANGE

Delhi Declaration Links Climate Change to Sustainable Development

NEW DELHI, 1 November -- Ministers and senior officials from some

170 countries have adopted a Delhi Ministerial Declaration on climate change and sustainable development.

PUBLIC SECTOR'S ABILITY TO DELIVER INSTITUTIONS AND FRAMEWORKS FOR JOINT

ACTION UNIQUE, EXECUTIVE COORDINATOR TELLS SECOND COMMITTEE

SECRETARY-GENERAL’S TRIBUTE AT MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR FORMER

U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE CYRUS VANCE

This is the text of remarks by Secretary-General Kofi Annan at a memorial service in New York on 30 October for former United States Secretary of State Cyrus Vance: