TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN DECEMBER 2001

The following is a tentative list of United Nations meetings scheduled to be held in December, including major meetings of intergovernmental organizations related to the United Nations:

Meetings continued from previous month:

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Fifty-sixth General Assembly

Third Committee

54^th Meeting (PM)

THIRD COMMITTEE CONCLUDES SESSION BY APPROVING DRAFT RESOLUTIONS ON HUMAN RIGHTS

IN MYANMAR, AFGHANISTAN, IRAQ, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO

Decides to Resume Session in 2002 to Consider Racism

Issues; Also Approves Drafts on Terrorism, Women, Disabled Persons

Fifty-sixth General Assembly

Third Committee

53^rd Meeting (AM)

THIRD COMMITTEE APPROVES EIGHT DRAFT RESOLUTIONS ON HUMAN RIGHTS,

RIGHT TO DEVELOPMENT, GLOBALIZATION, IRAN, SUDAN

Fifty-sixth General Assembly

Second Committee

35^th Meeting (AM)

SECOND COMMITTEE HEARS VIEWS OF LEAST DEVELOPED COUNTRIES,

LANDLOCKED COUNTRIES, SMALL ISLAND DEVELOPING STATES

Delegates Continue to Weigh Follow-up to Brussels LDC Conference

Fifty-sixth General Assembly

Plenary

71^st Meeting (PM)

DESPITE YEAR OF SETBACKS, PATH TO MIDDLE EAST PEACE REMAINS

OPEN, ISRAELI REPRESENTATIVE TELLS GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Calls for ‘Dark Forces of Rejection’ To Be Set Aside; Others Stress

Need for End to Israeli Settlement Policies, Occupation of Arab Territories

Fifty-sixth General Assembly

Plenary

70^th Meeting (AM)

GENERAL ASSEMBLY IS TOLD SOLUTION TO QUESTION OF PALESTINE

REMAINS CRUCIAL TO OVERALL MIDDLE EAST SETTLEMENT

Israeli Withdrawal from Occupied Lands Said to be Essential;

Appeals Made for End to All Violence, Resumption of Negotiations

DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL ADDRESSES HEADQUARTERS MEETING FOR WORLD AIDS DAY

This is the text of a statement by Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette at a town hall-style meeting at Headquarters today in observance of World Aids Day (1 December):

MARKING INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR ABOLITION OF SLAVERY, SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES

NATIONS TO ‘REAFFIRM OUR COMMITMENT TO THIS CAUSE’

Following is the message of Secretary-General Kofi Annan to mark the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, 2 December:

SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN MESSAGE FOR INTERNATIONAL DAY, APPLAUDS VITAL

CONTRIBUTION OF VOLUNTEERS IN GLOBAL SOCIETY-BULDING

This is the text of a message from Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the occasion of International Volunteer Day, 5 December: