Fifty-sixth General Assembly

Plenary

105^th Meeting (AM)

GENERAL ASSEMBLY APPROVES BUDGET OF JUST OVER $2.6 BILLION

FOR 12 ACTIVE PEACEKEEPING MISSIONS IN 2002-2003

Figure Includes $141.55 Million for Strategic Deployment Stocks

Acting on the recommendations of its Fifth Committee (Administrative

and Budgetary) this morning, the General Assembly adopted a budget of some

Background Release

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL TO BEGIN ANNUAL SESSION ON 1 JULY WITH HIGH-LEVEL

FOCUS ON HUMAN RESOURCES, HEALTH, EDUCATION

UN Development Activities, Coordination Issues, Humanitarian

Affairs, Human Rights Also To Be Considered by Meeting Ending on 26 July

CONFERENCE ON DISARMAMENT CONCLUDES SECOND PART OF 2002 SESSION

Russian Federation, China Present Joint Working Paper on Prevention

Of Deployment of Weapons in Outer Space; Germany Assumes Presidency of Conference

(Reissued as received.)

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Security Council

4559^th Meeting (AM)

PEACEKEEPING UNDER-SECRETARY-GENERAL BRIEFS SECURITY COUNCIL ON KOSOVO;

SAYS KOSOVO SERBS NAMED TO MINISTERIAL POSITIONS, COMPLETING GOVERNMENT

Also Addresses Municipal Elections, Rule of Law, Refugee Returns

UNITED STATES, PALESTINIAN VISIONS OF MIDDLE EAST PEACE HAVE MANY COMMON POINTS,

AFRICAN MEETING ON PALESTINIAN RIGHTS TOLD

Participants Address Key Issues, Including

Suicide Bombings, Military Actions, Occupation of Territory

(Received from a UN Information Officer.)

AFRICAN NGO WORKSHOP ON PALESTINE QUESTION MEETS IN MOROCCO

RABAT, Morocco, 26 June (UN Information Service) –- The Chairman of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, Papa Luis Fall, in an address to the United Nations Workshop of African non-governmental organizations (NGOs) on the question of Palestine this morning, called for more intensified efforts by civil society organizations in support of the Palestinian people.

Special Committee on

Decolonization

10^th Meeting (AM)

DECOLONIZATION COMMITTEE APPROVES THREE TEXTS ON MILITARY INSTALLATIONS,

NUCLEAR WEAPONS, ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES IN TERRITORIES

Concluding Current Session, Committee Also Approves Mission to Tokelau

Biographical Note

NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA PRESENTS CREDENTIALS

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

Robert Guba Aisi, the new Permanent Representative of Papua New Guinea to the United Nations, presented his credentials to Secretary-General Kofi Annan on 25 June.

On Friday, 21 June, Secretary-General Kofi Annan travelled to Illinois where, that evening, he delivered the keynote address at Northwestern University’s 144^th commencement ceremonies in Evanston, just outside of Chicago.