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Note No. 5681

                                                            3 October 2001

Note to Correspondents

Fifty-sixth General Assembly

Fourth Committee

2^nd Meeting (AM)

DECOLONIZATION, OUTER SPACE, ISRAELI PRACTICES AMONG ISSUES TO BE CONSIDERED

BY FOURTH COMMITTEE, BEGINNING 8 OCTOBER

Fifty-sixth General Assembly

Fourth Committee

2^nd Meeting (AM)

DECOLONIZATION, OUTER SPACE, ISRAELI PRACTICES AMONG ISSUES TO BE CONSIDERED

BY FOURTH COMMITTEE, BEGINNING 8 OCTOBER

Committee Adopts Agenda, Defers Election of Officers

Fifty-sixth General Assembly

Second Committee

8^th Meeting (PM)  

SECOND COMMITTEE EXPLORES POTENTIAL OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

AS EMPOWERING TOOL FOR DEVELOPMENT

With General Debate Concluded,

Committee Considers Science, Technology for Development

Fifty-sixth General Assembly

Second Committee

7^th Meeting (AM)

CONCERN VOICED IN SECOND COMMITTEE OVER WIDENING

GLOBAL ECONOMIC DISPARITIES

Never before was the world so collectively rich, so politically democratic, so economically globalized and yet so widely divided between the rich and the poor, Nepal's representative told the Second Committee this morning as it continued its general debate.

Fifty-sixth General Assembly

Fifth Committee

3^rd Meeting (PM)

BUDGET FOR 2002–2003, PEACEKEEPING FINANCING AMONG ISSUES

HIGH ON BUDGET COMMITTEE’S AGENDA

Fifty-sixth General Assembly

Plenary

17^th Meeting (PM)

ASSEMBLY HEARS CALL FOR DEFINITION OF TERRORISM

Definition Must Distinguish

Fifty-sixth General Assembly

Plenary

16^th Meeting (AM)

TERRORISM ON AGENDA SINCE 1972, BUT ANSWER CANNOT WAIT ANOTHER 30 YEARS

GENERAL ASSEMBLY TOLD, AS THIRD DAY OF TERRORISM DEBATE BEGINS

SECRETARY-GENERAL CONDEMNS TERRORIST SUICIDE BOMBING IN KASHMIR

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

The Secretary-General utterly condemns the terrorist suicide bombing that occurred yesterday in Srinagar in the Indian-controlled part of Kashmir.  He expresses his condolences to the bereaved families.