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Security Council

4618^th Meeting* (AM & PM)

SECURITY COUNCIL CONSIDERS TERRORISTS THREATS TO INTERNATIONAL PEACE, SECURITY

Secretary General, Chairman of Counter-Terrorism Committee

Address Meeting; Several Speakers Stress Need to Address Terrorism’s Root Causes

UNITED NATIONS MEMBER STATES

These are the 191 Member States of the United Nations with dates on which they joined the Organization, following the admission of Switzerland on

10 September and Timor-Leste (East Timor) on 27 September:

Member            Date of Admission

Afghanistan       19 Nov. 1946

Round-up

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