Sixty-second General Assembly

Sixth Committee

18^th Meeting (AM)

WORK OF INTERNATIONAL LAW COMMISSION RECOGNIZED AS ASSEMBLY’S

LEGAL COMMITTEE BEGINS WEEK-LONG REVIEW OF 2007 ACTIVITIES

Among Topics for Debate:  Reservations to Treaties, Shared

Sixty-second General Assembly

First Committee

19^th & 20^th Meetings (PM)

 ‘LOOPHOLES’ IN SMALL ARMS NORMS MUST BE CLOSED, AS ILLICIT WEAPONS WEAKEN STATE

STABILITY, DESTROY ECONOMIC FABRIC, KILL HUNDREDS DAILY, FIRST COMMITTEE TOLD

Note to Correspondents

YOKOHAMA’s Children TO BRING CITY’S GOODWILL TO UNited nations

 

Sixty-second General Assembly

Plenary

36^th & 37^th Meetings (AM & PM)

SECRETARY-GENERAL CONDEMNS ROCKET FIRE BY PALESTINIAN MILITANTS TARGETING ISRAEL,

SAYS PUNITIVE MEASURES BY ISRAEL AGAINST GAZA UNACCEPTABLE

The following statement was issued today by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:

TOURISM CAN FOSTER SPIRITUAL, CULTURAL RESPECT IN GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT MARKED

BY RISING INTOLERANCE, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL TO CORDOBA CONFERENCE

 

‘CONNECT AFRICA’ SUMMIT OPENS IN KIGALI

Partnerships Announced to Develop Information and Communications

Technology in the Continent as World Bank Announces Doubling of Financing

(Received from a UN Information Officer.)

Sixty-second General Assembly

Sixth Committee

19^th Meeting (AM)

Civil, political rights covenant should govern approach to issue

Of ‘expulsion of aliens’, assembly’s legal committee told

 

As Review of International Law Commission Report Continues,

‘CONNECT AFRICA’ SUMMIT ENDS WITH PLEDGE TO LINK CONTINENT’S CAPITALS,

MAJOR CITIES BY 2012; TOTAL GLOBAL HOOK-UP TO FOLLOW

 

Problem Said to Be Policy, Not Technology; Governments Promise

Better Regulatory Environment as Private Sector Investment Offered

SECRETARY-GENERAL APPOINTS MAX GAYLARD of Australia AS DEPUTY SPECIAL COORDINATOR

FOR MIDDLE EAST PEACE PROCESS, AD INTERIM