Fifty-sixth General Assembly

First Committee

23^rd Meeting (PM)

‘PRACTICAL STEPS’ ON PATH TO NUCLEAR-WEAPON ELIMINATION

STRESSED IN DRAFT TEXT APPROVED BY FIRST COMMITTEE

Resolutions Also Approved on Depleted Uranium,

Fifty-sixth General Assembly

First Committee

22^nd Meeting (AM)

DISARMAMENT AIMED AT ELIMINATION OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS CALLED

FOR IN DRAFT RESOLUTION APPROVED BY FIRST COMMITTEE

Other Texts Approved Address Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty,

UN Conference on Nuclear Dangers, Small Arms, Africa Centre

Fifty-sixth General Assembly

Fifth Committee

23^rd Meeting (AM)

INTERNAL OVERSIGHT OFFICE ‘AN INTEGRAL, EFFECTIVE PART OF PROCESS

TO REVITALIZE AND STREAMLINE UN’, BUDGET COMMITTEE TOLD

Independence the Cornerstone of Effective

Oversight, Says United States Representative

Fifty-sixth General Assembly                                GA/9947

Fifty-sixth General Assembly

Plenary

37^th Meeting (AM)

GENERAL ASSEMBLY ADOPTS RESOLUTION ON DAY FOR PREVENTING ENVIRONMENTAL

EXPLOITATION IN WAR, DECADE FOR CULTURE OF PEACE FOR CHILDREN

Debates Issue of Global Partnerships

Biographical Note

                                                            BIO/3397

UN EXPERT GROUP MEETING TO EXAMINE ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT,

MITIGATION OF NATURAL DISASTERS

(Reissued as received.)

                                                            AFR/351

PRESS STATEMENT ON BURUNDI BY PRESIDENT OF SECURITY COUNCIL

PRESS STATEMENT ON LIBERIA BY PRESIDENT OF SECURITY COUNCIL

Following is the text of today’s press statement on Liberia by M. Patricia Durrant (Jamaica), President of the Security Council:

Members of the Council heard a briefing by the Chairman of the Security Committee established pursuant to Resolution 1343 (2001) concerning Liberia on the two meetings between the Committee and the Panel of Experts on their report (S/2001/1015).

Note to Correspondents

HUMAN RIGHTS SPECIAL RAPPORTEURS TO BRIEF GENERAL ASSEMBLY

The Special Rapporteur and Representatives of the Commission on Human Rights will be in New York to report to the General Assembly's Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) from 8 to 12 November.  They will be available to correspondents for interviews.  This is the schedule of their statements to the Committee:

8 November