Security Council

4389^th Meeting* (AM)

SECURITY COUNCIL, ACTING IN CONCERT WITH GENERAL ASSEMBLY, ELECTS NABIL ELARABY

OF EGYPT TO FILL VACANCY ON INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE

To Serve for Balance of Term of Mohammed Bedjaoui (Algeria)

PRESS STATEMENT ON DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO

BY PRESIDENT OF SECURITY COUNCIL

Following is the text of yesterday’s statement on the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo by Richard Ryan (Ireland), President of the Security Council:

                                                                  Note No. 5682

Background Release

HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE TO HOLD SEVENTY-THIRD SESSION

IN GENEVA FROM 15 OCTOBER TO 2 NOVEMBER 2001

Experts to Examine Reports of Ukraine,

United Kingdom, Switzerland, Afghanistan and Azerbaijan

(Reissued as received.)

Round-up

COMMITTEE ON RIGHTS OF CHILD CONCLUDES TWENTY-EIGHTH SESSION

Issues Final Conclusions and Recommendations on Reports of Mauritania,

Kenya, Oman, Portugal, Qatar, Uzbekistan, Gambia, Paraguay, Cameroon, Cape Verde

(Reissued as received.)

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Fifty-sixth General Assembly

Third Committee

9^th Meeting (PM)

IMPORTANCE OF INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION, LEGAL CONVENTIONS STRESSED

AS THIRD COMMITTEE CONTINUES DISCUSSION OF DRUGS, CRIME

Fifty-sixth General Assembly

Third Committee

8^th Meeting (AM)

THIRD COMMITTEE INFORMED OF `SERIOUS DECREASE’ IN HEROIN PRODUCTION

IN AFGHANISTAN, BUT LARGE STOCKPILES REMAIN

Committee Also Hears That UN Terrorism

Prevention Branch Is Underfunded, Understaffed

Fifty-sixth General Assembly

Sixth Committee

8^th Meeting (PM)

OBSERVER STATUS AT UN FOR GLOBAL HYDROGRAPHIC GROUP

IS RECOMMENDED BY ASSEMBLY’S LEGAL COMMITTEE

Request by Sahelo-Saharan States Under Review; Debate

Concluded on Charter Report, Strengthening Role of World Body

Fifty-sixth General Assembly

Second Committee

12^th Meeting (PM)

SECOND COMMITTEE CONCLUDES DEBATE ON FIRST DECADE FOR ERADICATION OF POVERTY