Trusteeship Council

Sixty-third session

1708^th Meeting (PM)

TRUSTEESHIP COUNCIL MEETS, ELECTS NEW OFFICERS

Meeting for the first time since 1998, the Trusteeship Council this afternoon elected Adam Thomson of the United Kingdom as its President and Michel Duclos of France as its Vice-President.  Both will serve for five year terms in their posts.

Special Committee on

Decolonization

11^th Meeting (PM)

SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON DECOLONIZATION ADOPTS REPORT OF VISITING MISSION TO TOKELAU

The Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples today approved the report of the United Nations mission to the Pacific Non-Self-Governing Territory of Tokelau as it resumed its 2002 session.

UNITED NATIONS SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON DECOLONIZATION SENDS ASSESSMENT MISSION

TO PACIFIC NON-SELF-GOVERNING TERRITORY OF TOKELAU

Special Committee on

Decolonization

10^th Meeting (AM)

DECOLONIZATION COMMITTEE APPROVES THREE TEXTS ON MILITARY INSTALLATIONS,

NUCLEAR WEAPONS, ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES IN TERRITORIES

Concluding Current Session, Committee Also Approves Mission to Tokelau

Special Committee on

Decolonization

9^th Meeting (AM)

SPECIAL COMMITTEE UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTS TEXT URGING UN AGENCIES

TO PROVIDE ASSISTANCE TO NON-SELF-GOVERNING TERRITORIES

Committee Also Adopts Draft Report of Pacific Regional Seminar

Special Committee on

Decolonization

8^th Meeting (AM)

SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON DECOLONIZATION REITERATES CALL ON ARGENTINA, UNITED KINGDOM

TO RESUME NEGOTIATIONS ON FALKLANDS/MALVINAS ISSUE

Special Committee on

Decolonization

7^th Meeting (AM)

SPECIAL COMMITTEE APPROVES DRAFT TEXTS ON TOKELAU,

Special Committee on

Decolonization

5^th and 6^th Meetings (AM & PM)

DECOLONIZATION COMMITTEE URGES UNITED STATES TO HALT MILITARY MANOEUVRES

ON VIEQUES ISLAND, RETURN OCCUPIED LAND TO PEOPLE OF PUERTO RICO

Special Committee on

Decolonization

4^th Meeting (AM)

SPECIAL COMMITTEE HEARS FROM REPRESENTATIVES OF GIBRALTAR, WESTERN SAHARA

Right to Self-Determination of Peoples of Both Territories Stressed

The Special Committee on Decolonization must be bolder and do more to ensure the right to self-determination of the peoples of Gibraltar and Western Sahara, it was told this morning by representatives of those Territories.

Special Committee on

Decolonization

3^rd Meeting (AM)

SPECIAL COMMITTEE APPROVES THREE TEXTS ON:  VISITING MISSIONS TO TERRITORIES;

DISSEMINATION OF DECOLONIZATION INFORMATION; INFORMATION FROM TERRITORIES

Committee Chairman, DPI Director,

Department of Political Affairs Hail Independent East Timor