TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN DECEMBER 2004

The following is a tentative list of United Nations meetings scheduled to be held in December, including major meetings of intergovernmental organizations related to the United Nations:

Meetings continued from previous month:

Security Council

5092^nd Meeting (AM)

SECURITY COUNCIL ENDORSES CREATION OF TRUST FUND

 

TO SUPPORT UN PROTECTION FORCE IN IRAQ

 

The Security Council this morning endorsed the creation of a trust fund to financially support a United Nations protection force in Iraq.

PRESIDENT OF UNITED NATIONS SECURITY COUNCIL AND CHAIRMAN

 

OF MILITARY STAFF COMMITTEE IN DECEMBER

 

In accordance with the principle of alphabetical rotation, the following are the President of the United Nations Security Council and the Chairman of the Military Staff Committee for December:

Security Council

Fifty-ninth General Assembly

Plenary

62^nd & 63^rd Meetings (AM & PM)

SPEAKERS IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY URGE ISRAEL, PALESTINIANS TO SEIZE NEW HOPE PRESENTED

BY JANUARY 2005 ELECTIONS FOR WIDER MIDDLE EAST PEACE

 

UKRAINE:  SECRETARY-GENERAL REITERATES CALL FOR MAXIMUM RESTRAINT BY ALL

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

The Secretary-General has been following closely and with concern developments in Ukraine over the weekend as that nation struggles to resolve the crisis that has developed over the run-off presidential election on 21 November.

Committee on the Inalienable Rights

of the Palestinian People

283^rd Meeting (AM)

arafat’s memory should strengthen palestinian efforts to realize statehood,

Secretary-General says at observance of International day of solidarity

Palestinian Rights Committee Also Hears

Messages from Presidents of General Assembly, Security Council

GENERAL COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS INCLUSION OF ADDITIONAL SUB-ITEM ON ASSISTANCE

TO POORMOUNTAIN COUNTRIES ON CURRENT GENERAL ASSEMBLY AGENDA

 

The General Committee this morning recommended that an additional sub-item on providing development assistance to poor mountain countries be included on the General Assembly’s current agenda, under agenda item 85 on sustainable development, and that it be allocated to the Second Committee (Economic and Financial).

SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS EXPANDING MEMBERSHIP IN CHEMICAL WEAPONS TREATY ‘VITAL’

FOR INTERNATIONAL SECURITY, AS STATES PARTIES MEET IN THE HAGUE

 

Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message to the ninth session of the Conference of the States Parties to the Chemical Weapons Convention, delivered by Sergei Ordzhonikidze, Director-General, United Nations Office in Geneva, in The Hague, 29 November:

Fifty-ninth General Assembly

Plenary

61^st Meeting (PM)

QUARTET’S ROAD MAP STILL BEST WAY TO ACHIEVE LASTING PEACE

 

IN MIDDLE EAST, GENERAL ASSEMBLY TOLD

 

Secretary-General’s message to anti-hiv/aids group hails leadership,

integrity, courage of young people in struggle against disease

Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message to Dance4Life, in Cape Town on 27 November 2004, as delivered by Nafis Sadik, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for HIV/AIDS in Asia and the Pacific: