Press Release

UNITED NATIONS 2005 REPORT ON WORLD SOCIAL SITUATION FINDS

MUCH OF WORLD TRAPPED IN ‘INEQUALITY PREDICAMENT’

World More Unequal than 10 Years Ago

Fifty-Ninth General Assembly

Plenary

116^th Meeting (AM)

GENERAL ASSEMBLY ELECTS 27 AD LITEM JUDGES TO TRIBUNAL FOR FORMER YUGOSLAVIA ;

APPOINTS 4 MEMBERS OF JOINT INSPECTION UNIT

SEABED ASSEMBLY TAKES NOTE OF ANNUAL REPORT OF AUTHORITY’S SECRETARY-GENERAL

(Reissued as received.)

SEABED COUNCIL, AFTER EXTENSIVE DEBATE, TAKES NOTE

OF LEGAL AND TECHNICAL COMMISSION’S REPORT

(Reissued as received.)

Security Council

5250^th Meeting (AM)

ISRAEL ’S DISENGAGEMENT FROM GAZA, NORTHERN WEST BANK ‘WATERSHED’,

UNDER-SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS SECURITY COUNCIL

Ibrahim Gambari, Briefing Council, Says Operation

PRESS STATEMENT ON ISRAELI DISENGAGEMENT BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT

Following is the text of today’s press statement by the President of the Security Council, Kenzo Oshima ( Japan):

FLOODS DEVASTATE CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC , AS UN PROVIDES EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE

UNEP RELEASES NEW FINDINGS SHOWING RAPID REVIVAL OF IRAQI MARSHLANDS,

BUT STRESSES NEED FOR LONG-TERM INVESTMENT

(Reissued as received.)

Security Council

5249^th Meeting (AM)

SECURITY COUNCIL STRESSES NEED FOR HIGH LEVEL OF COMMITMENT BY INTERNATIONAL

COMMUNITY TO ADDRESS REMAINING CHALLENGES IN AFGHANISTAN

Security, Illegal Armed Groups, Drug Trafficking, Sustainable Development,

STRENGTHENED FIRE-FIGHTING COOPERATION CALLED FOR, AS DESTRUCTIVE

SUMMER WILDFIRES CONTINUE IN PORTUGAL