Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Plenary

20th Meeting (AM)

UNANIMOUS ASSEMBLY DECISION MAKES TIMOR-LESTE 191^ST UNITED NATIONS MEMBER STATE

Angola, Chile, Pakistan, Germany, Spain

Elected Non-Permanent Members of Security Council from 1 January 2003

By unanimous decision of the General Assembly, Timor-Leste became the 191^st United Nations Member State this morning.

UNEP, US NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY JOIN FORCES TO DELIVER

POLLUTION-FREE ELECTRICITY TO DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

IN WAKE OF GAZA ATTACK, SECRETARY-GENERAL CALLS ON ISRAEL TO HALT ALL SUCH ACTIONS

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

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‘TODAY’S REAL BORDER ARE NOT BETWEEN NATIONS, BUT BETWEEN POWERFUL AND POWERLESS,

FREE AND FETTERED, PRIVILEGED AND HUMILIATED’, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS

Following is the text of remarks by Secretary-General Kofi Annan at the

UNA-USA Dinner held in New York, on 25 September:

Security Council

4616^th Meeting (AM)

SECURITY COUNCIL ADOPTS ANNUAL REPORT TO GENERAL ASSEMBLY

The Security Council, this morning, adopted without a vote its annual report to the General Assembly for the period 16 June 2001 to 31 July 2002.

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Fourth Committee

1st Meeting (AM)

FOURTH COMMITTEE ELECTS THREE VICE-CHAIRPERSONS

AND RAPPORTEUR AS IT HOLDS FIRST MEETING

Work Programme for Fifty-seventh General Assembly Session Approved

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Third Committee

1st Meeting (PM)

THIRD COMMITTEE ELECTS THREE VICE-CHAIRMEN, RAPPORTEUR;

ALSO ADOPTS WORK PROGRAMME FOR CURRENT SESSION

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Sixth Committee

2nd Meeting (PM)

SIXTH COMMITTEE BEGINS DISCUSSION OF MEASURES TO ENHANCE

PROTECTION OF DIPLOMATIC/CONSULAR MISSIONS, PERSONNEL

The Sixth Committee (Legal) this afternoon began discussion of the issue of effective measures to enhance the protection, security and safety of diplomatic and consular missions and their representatives.

Special Committee on

Decolonization

11^th Meeting (PM)

SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON DECOLONIZATION ADOPTS REPORT OF VISITING MISSION TO TOKELAU

The Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples today approved the report of the United Nations mission to the Pacific Non-Self-Governing Territory of Tokelau as it resumed its 2002 session.