Fifty-ninth General Assembly

Second Committee

38^th Meeting (PM)

text approved in second committee stresses debt relief role in freeing resources

for poverty eradication, economic growth, sustainable development

Draft Resolution on External Debt,

Six Others, Oral Decision Win Consensus Approval by Delegates

MORE COMPREHENSIVE APPROACH NEEDED TO HARMONIZE PRO-FAMILY ACTIONS, GENERAL

 

ASSEMBLY PRESiDENT SAYS IN MESSAGE TO MARK INTERNATIONAL YEAR

Following is the text of General Assembly President Jean Ping’s message to the to the plenary meeting of the General Assembly to observe the tenth anniversary of the International Year of the Family, yesterday, 6 December 2004:

REPRESENTATIVES OF GREECE, FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA

 

MEET UNDER SECRETARY-GENERAL’S AUSPICES

Following is a statement attributable to the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

Seminar participants stress importance of tolerance,

 

understanding, education in countering islamophobia

 

SECRETARY-GENERAL, ADDRESSING HEADQUARTERS SEMINAR ON CONFRONTING ISLAMOPHOBIA,

STRESSES IMPORTANCE OF LEADERSHIP, TWO-WAY INTEGRATION, DIALOGUE

He Also Underscores Need to Unlearn

Entrenched Stereotypes, Widespread Habit of Xenophobia

Security Council

5095^th Meeting (PM)

SECRETARY-GENERAL CONGRATULATES AFGHAN PRESIDENT ON HIS INAUGURATION

Following is a statement attributable to the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

SECRETARY-GENERAL NOTES UN’S ‘ENDURING SYSTEM-WIDE COMMITMENT TO FAMILIES’

 

AS GENERAL ASSEMBLY COMMEMORATES tenth ANNIVERSARY OF INTERNATIONAL YEAR

 

Following are Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s remarks to the General Assembly on the Tenth Anniversary of the International Year of the Family in New York, 6 December:

SECURITY COUNCIL COMMITTEE APPROVES CORRECTION OF IDENTIFYING INFORMATION

OF FIFTY-THREE INDIVIDUALS, TEN ENTITES ON CONSOLIDATED LIST

SECURITY COUNCIL COMMITTEE ADDS SEVEN A.K.A.’S OF ONE ENTITY

IN AL-QAIDA SECTION OF ITS CONSOLIDATED LIST

 

The Al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Committee on 2 December 2004 approved the addition of seven a.k.a.’s for one entity in the Al-Qaida section of its consolidated list (the additions have been underlined in the entry below).

78. *Name:  JAMA’AT AL-TAWHID WA’AL-JIHAD (JTJ)