Background Release

COMMITTEE ON RIGHTS OF CHILD TO HOLD TWENTY-EIGHTH SESSION AT GENEVA

FROM 24 SEPTEMBER TO 12 OCTOBER

Experts to Examine Reports from Mauritania, Kenya, Oman,

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

(Reissued as received.)

Fifty-sixth General Assembly

Plenary

6^th Meeting (AM)

IMPORTANCE OF HUMANIZING GLOBALIZATION STRESSED, AS GENERAL ASSEMBLY

HIGH-LEVEL DIALOGUE ON ECONOMIC COOPERATION CONCLUDES

L/T/4363

STATES PARTIES TO MINE BAN CONVENTION ADOPT MANAGUA DECLARATION,

AS THEY CLOSE THEIR THIRD ANNUAL MEETING

(Received from a UN Information Officer.)

REPORT OF SECRETARY-GENERAL ON WORK OF ORGANIZATION

Security Council

4377^th Meeting (PM)

IN PRESIDENTIAL STATEMENT ON ANGOLA, SECURITY COUNCIL

STRONGLY CONDEMNS TERRORIST ATTACKS BY UNITA

The Security Council this afternoon strongly condemned terrorist attacks by the forces of the União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola (UNITA), stressing that such attacks were unacceptable and could not be justified by any political goals.

SPECIAL SESSION OF UN CONFERENCE ON NGO VOLUTEERISM HELD ON 13 SEPTEMBER

Session Follows Fifty-Fourth Annual DPI/NGO Conference, 10-12 September

Fifty-sixth General Assembly

Plenary

5^th Meeting (PM)

SPEAKERS ADDRESS ‘DIGITAL DIVIDE’, INEQUITIES IN GLOBALIZATION,

AS DIALOGUE ON INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC COOPERATION CONTINUES

Fifty-sixth General Assembly

Plenary

4^th Meeting (AM)

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC COOPERATION DIALOGUE OPENS AT HEADQUARTERS;

FOCUS ON INTEGRATING DEVELOPING COUNTRIES INTO WORLD ECONOMY

IN REMARKS TO CARNEGIE COUNCIL, DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL DISCUSSES

MYTH, REALITY IN GLOBAL FIGHT AGAINST HIV/AIDS

Following is the text of remarks by Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette, made today at the Carnegie Council Worldview Breakfast, New York:

DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL, ADDRESSING HIGH-LEVEL DIALOGUE ON COOPERATION

FOR DEVELOPMENT, URGES NEW ‘DEVELOPMENT’ ROUND OF TRADE NEGOTIATIONS

Following is the text of the address by Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette to participants in the High-Level Dialogue on Cooperation for Development: