Sixty-second General Assembly

Third Committee

26^th & 27^th Meetings (AM & PM)

SYSTEM OF IMPUNITY MAKING MOCKERY OF SPECIAL PROCEDURES TO ADDRESS

EXTRAJUDICIAL KILLINGS, RAPPORTEUR TELLS THIRD COMMITTEE

 

SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS ‘CONNECT AFRICA’ SUMMIT NARROWING ‘DIGITAL DIVIDE’

BETWEEN RICH, POOR NATIONS CENTRAL TO DEVELOPMENT EFFORTS

 

AS DARFUR PEACE TALKS BEGIN, SECRETARY-GENERAL COMMENDS PARTIES

FOR MAKING ‘CHOICE OF DIALOGUE OVER WAR’

 

Secretary-General, in message for international day on environmental consequences

of war and armed conflict, calls for mitigation efforts, renewed commitment

Sixty-second General Assembly

Third Committee

28^th & 29^th Meetings (AM & PM)

Darfur Remains region where gross human rights violations are perpetrated

 

by all parties, rapporteur tells third committee

 

Sixty-second General Assembly

Second Committee

15^th & 16^th Meetings (AM & PM)

Sixty-second General Assembly

Fourth Committee

12^th Meeting (AM)

FOURTH COMMITTEE CONSIDERS EFFECTS OF ATOMIC RADIATION ON HUMANKIND, ENVIRONMENT;

APPROVES DRAFT TEXT IN SUPPORT OF STRENGTHENED FUNDING FOR SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

Sixty-second General Assembly

Fifth Committee

12^th Meeting (AM)

Budget committee takes up issue of programme planning, including report

of committee for programme and coordination

 

Deputy Secretary-General, at opening of United Nations advocacy week

of world churches, stresses key role of civil society groups

Review of Efforts on Global Challenges; Continuing Crises in Many African

Countries Noted, but Account to Be Taken of ‘Significant Strides’ in Others

Security Council

5772^nd Meeting* (PM)

SECURITY COUNCIL RENEWS CÔTE D’IVOIRE SANCTIONS UNTIL 31 OCTOBER 2008,

UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTING RESOLUTION 1782 (2007)

 

Measures Include Arms, Rough Diamond Ban;