Fifty-seventh General Assembly

General Committee

5^th Meeting (AM)

GENERAL COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS INCLUSION OF ADDITIONAL ITEM –-

‘INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF RICE, 2004’ –- ON ASSEMBLY AGENDA

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Plenary

67^th Meeting (AM)

GENERAL ASSEMBLY IS TOLD 2004 OLYMPIC GAMES IN ATHENS WILL EXEMPLIFY

ROLE OF CULTURAL HERITAGE IN SOCIAL, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Debate Marks End of United Nations Year; Importance of Objectives,

Need for Global Support, Practical Measures, Financial Assistance Stressed

Ad Hoc Committee for Voluntary

Contributions to UNRWA

Meeting (AM)

DONOR COUNTRIES PLEDGE $47.53 MILLION FOR UNRWA'S REGULAR BUDGET FOR 2003

AT MEETING OF AD HOC COMMITTEE FOR VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Plenary

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

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Plenary

64^th and 65th Meetings (AM&PM)*

SUPPORT EXPRESSED IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY FOR EFFORTS

TO RESOLVE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT

Delegates also Note Need for Normal Relations Between Israel, Syria and Lebanon

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Plenary

63^rd Meeting (PM)

ASSEMBLY IS TOLD WORLD COMMUNITY MUST WORK HARDER FOR ISRAELI

WITHDRAWAL FROM TERRITORIES, CREATION OF PALESTINIAN STATE

Debate Begins on ‘Question of Palestine’; Israeli Delegate Says

End of Terrorism Must be Price of Political Process, Not Its Reward

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Plenary

62^nd Meeting (AM)

STRENGTHENED, MORE EFFICIENT ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL CITED,

AS GENERAL ASSEMBLY TAKES UP COUNCIL'S 2002 REPORT

The Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) was strengthening its role and making its work more efficient, its President, Ivan Šimonović (Croatia), told the General Assembly this morning, as it discussed the Council’s report for 2002.

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Plenary

60^th and 61^st Meetings (AM & PM)

GENERAL ASSEMBLY ADOPTS TEXT CALLING ON GOVERNMENTS TO OBSERVE

INTERNATIONAL VOLUNTEER DAY FOR ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Plenary

58^th and 59^th Meetings (AM & PM)

GENERAL ASSEMBLY, AFTER DAY-LONG DEBATE, ADOPTS RESOLUTIONS ON AID

TO ANGOLA, KAZAKHSTAN, MOZAMBIQUE, TAJIKISTAN AND TIMOR-LESTE

Texts Indicate Strategy of Encouraging Transition from Relief

To Development, Self-Help in Humanitarian Assistance Programmes

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Plenary

57^th Meeting (AM)

GENERAL ASSEMBLY CALLS FOR STRENGTHENED NATIONAL MEASURES TO PREVENT

TERRORIST ACQUISITION OF MASS DESTRUCTION WEAPONS

53 First Committee Texts Adopted; New Russian Federation/United States

Strategic Framework, Nuclear Weapon Elimination among Other Issues Addressed