Press Release

Fifty-sixth General Assembly

Plenary

54^th Meeting (AM)

ECONOMICALLY VIABLE, NON-MILITARY PALESTINIAN STATE ‘THE BEST BET’,

ISRAELI FOREIGN MINISTER TELLS ASSEMBLY

Different Views Offered on Use of Sanctions,

Fifty-sixth General Assembly

General Committee

6^th Meeting (AM)

ASSEMBLY’S GENERAL COMMITTEE DECIDES TO REFER ITEM ON COOPERATION

WITH INTER-PARLIAMENTARY UNION TO LEGAL COMMITTEE

Biographical Note

NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF PHILIPPINES PRESENTS CREDENTIALS

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

The new Permanent Representative of the Philippines to the United Nations, Alfonso Tiaoqui Yuchengco, presented his credentials today to Secretary-General Kofi Annan.

PRESIDENT OF SECURITY COUNCIL, AT PRIVATE COUNCIL MEETING WITH NELSON MANDELA,

THANKS FORMER SOUTH AFRICAN PRESIDENT FOR HIS ROLE IN BURUNDI PEACE PROCESS

Following is the statement by Security Council President Keith D. Knight, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade of Jamaica, on the occasion of the Council’s private meeting today with Nelson Mandela:

SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS REVISED INDUSTRIAL POLICIES, DIVERSIFICATION

ARE KEY ELEMENTS IN AFRICAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Message to Mark Africa Industrialization Day -– 20 November 2001

This is the text of a message from Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the occasion of Africa Industrialization Day, 20 November:

Security Council

4415^th Meeting (Night)

SECURITY COUNCIL SETS UNITED NATIONS COURSE FOR SUPPORTING

NEW GOVERNANCE IN AFGHANISTAN; URGES NO REPRISALS

Resolution 1378, Adopted Unanimously, Anticipates Broad-Based,

Multi-Ethnic Transitional Administration, Leading to New Government

UNRWA AWARDED KING HUSSEIN FOUNDATION HUMANITARIAN PRIZE

FOR ITS 'TIRELESS EFFORTS' TO PROMOTE PEACE

(Reissued as received.)

AMMAN, 14 November (UNRWA) -- The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) has won the King Hussein Humanitarian Leadership Prize for its 50 years of services to Palestine refugees and its emergency work in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip over the last 13 months.

                                                            Note No. 5696

Fifty-sixth General Assembly

Third Committee

40^th Meeting (AM)

PEOPLE SUFFERING FROM POVERTY, HUNGER, POOR HEALTH UNLIKELY

TO ENJOY HUMAN RIGHTS, DELEGATES STRESS IN THIRD COMMITTEE

Importance of Right to Development, Maintenance

Of International Peace, Security Emphasized as Human Rights Debate Continues

Fifty-sixth General Assembly

Plenary

53^rd Meeting (PM)

AFGHANISTAN DEVELOPMENTS VICTORY FOR ITS PEOPLE, GLOBAL COMMUNITY,

AFGHANISTAN’S REPRESENTATIVE TELLS GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Assembly Hears 14 More Speakers in General Debate;