Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Second Committee

6^th Meeting (AM)

NOBEL LAUREATE HIGHLIGHTS TWO FACES OF GLOBALIZATION

IN BRIEFING TO SECOND COMMITTEE

The past year had shown how the positive and negative sides of globalization could affect the entire world, especially poorer countries, Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz told the Second Committee (Economic and Financial) this morning.

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Second Committee

5^th Meeting (PM)

DELEGATES TO SECOND COMMITTEE EMPHASIZE IMPORTANCE

OF FOREIGN DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE

Speakers Point Out Gap Between Availability and Needs

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Second Committee

4^th Meeting (AM)

LANDLOCKED DEVELOPING COUNTRIES NEED MORE EQUITABLE WORLD TRADE,

SECOND COMMITTEE TOLD

Geographical Handicaps Keep Them from Being Competitive, Says Delegate

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Second Committee

2^nd Meeting (AM)

WORLD ECONOMY DID NOT LIVE UP TO EXPECTATIONS, DESAI SAYS

AS SECOND COMMITTEE STARTS GENERAL DEBATE

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Second Committee

3rd Meeting (PM)

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Second Committee

1^st Meeting (PM)

SECOND COMMITTEE APPROVES WORK PROGRAMME FOR FIFTY-SEVENTH

SESSION; ELECTS TWO VICE-CHAIRMEN, RAPPORTEUR

The Second Committee (Economic and Financial) this afternoon approved its programme of work for the fifty-seventh session and elected two Vice-Chairmen as well as the Rapporteur to its bureau.

Fifty-seventh General Assembly                            GA/EF/2994/Rev.1*

Second Committee                                             24 September 2002

Economic and Social Council

2002 Substantive Session

41^st Meeting (PM) and Round-up of Session

Economic and Social Council

2002 Substantive Session

39^th and 40^th Meetings (AM & PM)

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL CALLS FOR END OF OCCUPATION

OF PALESTINIAN POPULATION CENTRES

By Recorded Vote, Adopts Text

On Repercussions of Israeli Occupation; Total of 50 Texts Adopted

Economic and Social Council

2002 Substantive Session

37^th and 38^th Meetings (AM & PM)

FOLLOWING VOTE, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL RECOMMENDS GENERAL ASSEMBLY

ADOPTION OF OPTIONAL PROTOCOL TO CONVENTION AGAINST TORTURE

In Earlier Vote, Council Rejects