Sixty-first General Assembly

Fifth Committee

49^th Meeting (AM)

FIFTH COMMITTEE TAKES UP $5.4 BILLION 2007-2008 PEACEKEEPING BUDGET;

COVERS 13 ACTIVE MISSIONS, LOGISTICS BASE, SUPPORT ACCOUNT

 

Secretary-General appoints board memberS of united nations register of damage

caused by construction of wall in occupied palestinian territory

 

Commission on Sustainable Development

Fifteenth Session

9^th & 10^th Meetings (AM & PM)

Background Release

United Nations Committee Monitoring Discrimination against Women

to meet at headquarters, 14 May – 1 June

 

Will Consider Reports by Mauritania , Mozambique,

Niger , Pakistan, Serbia, Sierra Leone, Syria, Vanuatu

Note to Correspondents

PANEL ON FAMILIES, PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES

 

FIRST SESSION OF PREPARATORY COMMITTEE FOR 2010 NON-PROLIFERATION TREATY

REVIEW CONFERENCE ENDS WITH ADOPTION OF REPORT

 

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, in the afternoon of Wednesday, 2 May.

Background Release

UNITED NATIONS INDIGENOUS FORUM’S SIXTH SESSION AT HEADQUARTERS 14-25 MAY;

RIGHTS TO LANDS, TERRITORIES, NATURAL RESOURCES FOCUS

 

Statement by Bureau of Palestinian Rights Committee on appointment

 

of experts to Board of United Nations Register of Damage

 

CIVIL SOCIETY FORUM MEETS IN PRETORIA

 

Speakers Agree Role of Civil Society Central to Palestinian Cause:

Activists Urged to Mobilize, Pressure Governments to End Occupation

(Received from a UN Information Officer.)