Fifty-sixth General Assembly

Fifth Committee

29^th Meeting (AM)

BUDGET COMMITTEE TAKES UP FINANCING FOR STRENGTHENED UN STAFF SECURITY,

PEACEKEEPING MISSIONS IN LEBANON, SIERRA LEONE

Fifty-sixth General Assembly

Plenary

63^rd Meeting (PM)

GENERAL ASSEMBLY IS TOLD NEGATIVE CONSEQUENCES OF CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR

POWER PLANT CATASTROPHE STILL BEING FELT, 15 YEARS LATER

Debate Begins on United Nations Relief, Disaster Assistance;

Delivery of Aid, Protection of Humanitarian Workers Among Issues Raised

Fifty-sixth General Assembly

Plenary

62^nd Meeting (AM)

PRESIDENTS OF YUGOSLAVIA, RWANDA TRIBUNALS REPORT TO GENERAL ASSEMBLY

ON YEAR OF ACTIVITIES; QUICKENING OF PACE IS NOTED

Progress Seen in Indictments, Judgements; Some Adjustments,

Improvements Said to Be Needed, With Continued Global Support

SECURITY COUNCIL COMMITTEE ESTABLISHED PURSUANT TO RESOLUTION 1267 (1999)

CONCERNING AFGHANISTAN ISSUES A NEW CONSOLIDATED LIST

(Reissued for technical reasons.)

The new consolidated list consists of two sections:

A.    List pursuant to paragraph 4 (b) of resolution 1267 (1999)

B.    Listpursuant to paragraph 8 (c) of resolution 1333 (2000) 

                                                            AFG/169

SECRETARY-GENERAL’S SPECIAL ENVOY TO HELP FACILITATE MYANMAR TALKS

      The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

Mr. Razali Ismail, the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Myanmar, will visit Yangon from 27 November to 4 December 2001 to help facilitate the talks between the Government and Daw Aung San Suu Kyi for democratization and national reconciliation in Myanmar.

Round-Up of Session

COMMITTEE AGAINST TORTURE CONCLUDES TWENTY-SEVENTH SESSION

Considered Reports of Ukraine, Benin, Indonesia, Zambia and Israel

(Reissued as received.)

Fifty-sixth General Assembly

Third Committee

47^th Meeting (AM)

THIRD COMMITTEE APPROVES DRAFT RESOLUTION URGING SUPPORT

FOR PALESTINIAN QUEST FOR SELF-DETERMINATION

CORRECTION

JAMES LEMOYNE APPOINTED ACTING SPECIAL ADVISER ON COLOMBIA

On 13 November, the Secretary-General announced the appointment of James LeMoyne as Acting Special Adviser on Colombia.  Mr. LeMoyne has been serving as Deputy Special Adviser to Jan Egeland, who, it was recently announced, would leave the United Nations early next year to become Secretary-General of the Norwegian Red Cross.  Mr. LeMoyne will assume this position in January 2002, upon

Security Council

4424^th Meeting (AM)

UNDER-SECRETARY-GENERAL FOR HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS BRIEFS SECURITY COUNCIL

ON INITIATIVES TO IMPROVE PROTECTION OF CIVILIANS IN ARMED CONFLICT