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UNCTAD GOVERNING BODY HEARS PLEAS FOR IMPROVING

PREFERENTIAL TRADE SCHEMES FOR LDCS

BUILDING AN INTERNATIONAL ALLIANCE AGAINST HUNGER

FOCUS OF WORLD FOOD DAY, 16 OCTOBER

ROME, 10 October (Food and Agriculture Organization) -- Creating an International Alliance Against Hunger will be the core theme of this year's World Food Day on 16 October.

Fifty-eighth General Assembly

Third Committee

8^th Meeting (AM)

THIRD COMMITTEE HEARS CALL TO ADDRESS GLOBAL SOCIAL, ECONOMIC PROBLEMS

PROVIDING ‘BREEDING GROUND’ FOR ILLICIT DRUGS, TRANSNATIONAL CRIME

CHAIRMAN OF AL-QAIDA, TALIBAN SANCTIONS COMMITTEE TO VISIT SELECTED COUNTRIES

IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION 1455 (2003)

The Chairman of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1267 (1999) concerning Al-Qaida and the Taliban and associated individuals and entities will begin today a visit to selected countries in Asia, Europe and the Middle East. 

Fifty-eighth General Assembly

General Committee

3^rd Meeting (AM)

GENERAL COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS INCLUSION OF TWO ADDITIONAL

ITEMS IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY’S AGENDA

Also Recommends Assembly Consider Draft Corruption Convention Directly in Plenary

Fifty-eighth General Assembly

Sixth Committee

5^th Meeting (AM)

LEGAL COMMITTEE HEARS SPECIFIC PROPOSALS ON WAYS TO AID

‘THIRD STATES’ AFFECTED BY IMPOSITION OF SANCTIONS

Debate Concluded on Report of Special Committee on UN Charter

AS DIFFICULT TIMES STRAIN GLOBAL SYSTEM, SECRETARY-GENERAL LOOKS TO UN ASSOCIATION

OF UNITED STATES TO ‘DO WHAT YOU DO BEST’ –- TELL UN STORY

Following are Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s remarks at a dinner hosted by the United Nations Association – USA and the Business Council for the United Nations in New York on 8 October:

Fifty-eighth General Assembly

Plenary

27^th Meeting (AM)

Fifty-eighth General Assembly

First Committee

5^th Meeting (AM)

NEW DISARMAMENT APPROACHES IMPERATIVE IN CHANGED POLITICAL CLIMATE

FIRST COMMITTEE TOLD, AS GENERAL DEBATE CONTINUES

DISPLACED PEOPLE CONTINUE TO ARRIVE IN TOTOTA, LIBERIA

NEW YORK, 9 October (Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs) -- On Tuesday, 7 October, an inter-agency mission visited Totota and Kakata in Liberia to examine the relocation of internally displaced persons in irregular shelters and assess new population movements into Totota.