Sixty-first General Assembly

Fifth Committee

8^th Meeting (PM)

BUDGET COMMITTEE DEBATES ROLE OF COMMITTEE ON PROGRAMME AND COORDINATION

AS UNITED NATIONS’ PRINCIPAL PLANNING, EVALUATION BODY

 

Most Speakers Stress Committee’s Unique, Critical Role;

Sixty-first General Assembly

Second Committee

Panel Discussion (PM)

flexible policies needed to address labour, social, economic worries

as globalization picks up pace, panellists tell second committee

Job Dislocation, Income Inequality, Declining Wages Discussed

Sixty-first General Assembly

First Committee

16^th Meeting (AM)

DRAFT RESOLUTION ON INTERNATIONAL ARMS TRADE TREATY ONE OF EIGHT TEXTS

INTRODUCED IN DISARMAMENT COMMITTEE

 

Small Arms, Practical Disarmament Measures,

IN WORLD FOOD DAY MESSAGE, GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT URGES INTEGRATED

APPROACH, STRONGER PARTNERSHIPS TO TACKLE HUNGER, POVERTY

 

Sixty-first General Assembly

Fourth Committee

12^th Meeting (PM)

UNITED NATIONS, AS INDISPENSABLE FOUNDATION OF PEACEFUL AND JUST WORLD,

MUST BE HEARD ‘CLEARLY AND EFFECTIVELY’, SAYS FOURTH COMMITTEE TEXT

Under-Secretary-General Shashi Tharoor Hopeful and Confident

COMMITTEE ON STAFF SECURITY CALLS ON COUNTRIES TO JOIN

OPTIONAL PROTOCOL ON SAFETY OF HUMANITARIAN PERSONNEL

Recent Treaty Event Encouraging but Much Broader Action Required

Sixty-first General Assembly

Sixth Committee

7^th Meeting (AM)

COUNTRIES DESCRIBE RELEVANCE FOR THEM OF ‘RULE OF LAW’, AS LEGAL

COMMITTEE BEGINS DEBATE ON NATIONAL, INTERNATIONAL IMPLICATIONS

Matter of Survival, Says Trinidad and Tobago; Representative

Secretary-General stresses need to correct prosperity imbalance as he lauds

china’s progress in message to poverty eradication awards ceremony

SECURITY COUNCIL PRESS STATEMENT ON ETHIOPIA-ERITREA

Following is the text of the Security Council press statement on Ethiopia and Eritrea, delivered today by the Council President, Kenzo Oshima ( Japan):

In message to people of Timor-Leste, Secretary-General welcomes report

 

of independent special commission of inquiry