Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Fourth Committee

21^st Meeting (AM)

'DISTURBING' HUMANITARIAN DETERIORATION IN OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES

FOCUS, AS FOURTH COMMITTEE TAKES UP REPORT ON ISRAELI PRACTICES

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Third Committee

43^rd and 44^th Meetings (AM & PM)

‘ANYONE DYING FROM HUNGER WAS DYING FROM MURDER’, SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR

TELLS THIRD COMMITTEE, AS DISCUSSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS CONTINUES

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Second Committee

30^th Meeting (PM)

MULTILATERAL APPROACH STILL HIGHLY REGARDED IN INTERNATIONAL TRADE,

SECOND COMMITTEE TOLD, AS IT BEGINS DEBATE ON TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT

UNCTAD Secretary-General Warns Trend Towards Bilateral Free

Trade Agreements Could Be Stumbling Block to Multilateral Negotiations

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Fifth Committee

24^th Meeting (PM)

DELEGATES DISCUSS PROPOSED CREATION OF ‘SENIOR MANAGEMENT SERVICE’

TO HELP BUILD UN LEADERSHIP CAPACITY

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Plenary

46^th and 47^th Meetings (AM & PM)

GENERAL ASSEMBLY, ENDORSING WORK OF IAEA, ASKS IRAQ TO COOPERATE WITH AGENCY’S

REVIEW OF WHETHER NUCLEAR CAPABILITIES HAVE CHANGED SINCE 1998

In Other Action, Further Progress Sought in Bosnia and Herzegovina;

Panel Meetings Set on Afghanistan; Debate Begins on Central America

INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION IN TAX MATTERS, ROLE OF TAXATION IN DEVELOPMENT

AMONG ISSUES RAISED IN SECOND COMMITTEE PANEL DISCUSSION

Biographical Note

NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF GERMANY PRESENTS CREDENTIALS

(Based on information received from the Protocol and Liaison Service.)

Gunter Pleuger, the new Permanent Representative of Germany to the United Nations, today presented his credentials to Secretary-General Kofi Annan.

Before his present appointment, Mr. Pleuger had served as State Secretary in the Federal Foreign Office in Berlin since October 1999.

Biographical Note

NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF MALDIVES PRESENTS CREDENTIALS

(Based on information received from the Protocol and Liaison Service.)

Mohamed Latheef, the new Permanent Representative of the Maldives to the United Nations, presented his credentials today to Secretary-General Kofi Annan.

UNITED NATIONS EXPERT GROUP MEETING TO DISCUSS PARTICIPATION,

UNITED NATIONS EXPERT GROUP MEETING TO EXAMINE IMPACT OF INFORMATION

AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES ON WOMEN