Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Plenary

51^st Meeting (AM)

GENERAL ASSEMBLY, REVIEWING GLOBAL MINE-CLEARANCE EFFORTS, IS TOLD

LINGERING PROBLEM DESTROYS RESOURCES, HAMPERS DEVELOPMENT

Grave Human Toll Continues from Years-old Weapons: ‘Assassins in Hiding’,

Says Lebanon, Among Delegates of 20 Countries Urging Continued Removal Action

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50^th Meeting (AM)

GENERAL ASSEMBLY WELCOMES DECLARATION OF SOUTH AMERICA AS

ZONE OF PEACE AND COOPERATION

Support Also Expressed for Continuation of United Nations

Guatemala Mission as Assembly Considers Situation in Central America

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49^th Meeting (PM)

DELEGATES SAY MOBILIZATION OF TRANSBOUNDARY, TRANSNATIONAL CAPACITIES

CRUCIAL IN WAR AGAINST HIV/AIDS

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48^th Meeting (AM)

ASSEMBLY, ACTING ON TEXT TO END UNITED STATES EMBARGO AGAINST CUBA,

URGES STATES TO REPEAL LAWS WITH ‘EXTRATERRITORIAL’ EFFECTS

Delegates Note Durability of Issue, Majority Supporting

Adoption of Comparable Resolution for Eleventh Year in a Row

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46^th and 47^th Meetings (AM & PM)

GENERAL ASSEMBLY, ENDORSING WORK OF IAEA, ASKS IRAQ TO COOPERATE WITH AGENCY’S

REVIEW OF WHETHER NUCLEAR CAPABILITIES HAVE CHANGED SINCE 1998

In Other Action, Further Progress Sought in Bosnia and Herzegovina;

Panel Meetings Set on Afghanistan; Debate Begins on Central America

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44^th and 45^th Meetings (AM & PM)

ASSEMBLY IS TOLD LACK OF RESOURCES, HIGH COST OF MEDICINES, CONTINUING

STIGMA REMAIN OBSTACLES IN GLOBAL FIGHT AGAINST HIV/AIDS

Day-Long Review of United Nations Efforts; Debate is Concluded

On Role of Information, Communication Technologies in Development

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Plenary

43^rd Meeting (AM)

GENERAL ASSEMBLY INVITES STATES TO EXPAND ACTIVITIES TO PROMOTE CULTURE

OF PEACE AND TO OBSERVE ANNUAL DAY ON 21 SEPTEMBER

Also Takes Action on African Development; Discusses Decade to Roll

Back Malaria; Elects Members to Committee on Programme and Coordination

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66^th Meeting (AM)

GENERAL ASSEMBLY ADOPTS SIX RESOLUTIONS AS IT CONCLUDES DEBATE

ON MIDDLE EAST SITUATION AND QUESTION OF PALESTINE

Speakers Call for Return to Peace

Negotiations and Israeli Withdrawal from Syrian Golan

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40^th and 41^st Meetings (AM & PM)

DELEGATES QUESTION PROPOSED ABSORPTION OF INFORMATION CENTRES INTO REGIONAL

HUBS, AS ASSEMBLY CONTINUES DISCUSSION OF SECRETARY-GENERAL’S REPORT

CORRECTION

On page 7 of Press Release GA/10092 of 31 October, paragraphs 3 and 4 should read as follows:

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Plenary

42^nd Meeting (AM)

CONSTRUCTIVE SPIRIT PREVAILS, PRESIDENT SAYS, AS GENERAL ASSEMBLY

CONCLUDES DISCUSSION ON STREGTHENING UNITED NATIONS