Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Plenary

77^th Meeting (AM)

GENERAL ASSEMBLY ADOPTS 75 RESOLUTIONS ON SOCIAL, HUMANITARIAN ISSUES, INCLUDING

OPTIONAL PROTOCOL TO CONVENTION AGAINST TORTURE

Action also taken on Human Rights, Refugees, Women’s Issues, Crime Prevention, Drug Control, Other Social Issues

ASIAN, PACIFIC COUNTRIES REAFFIRM COMMITMENT TO REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH,

RIGHTS, AS BANGKOK MEETING CONCLUDES

United Nations Population Fund Welcomes Conference Plan of Action to Fight Poverty

BANGKOK, 17 December -- The United Nations Population Fund UNFPA) today hailed a pledge by Asian and Pacific governments to give priority to population and reproductive health concerns in their work to reduce poverty.

Security Council

4672^nd Meeting (PM)

SECURITY COUNCIL ENCOURAGES COUNTER-TERRORISM COMMITTEE TO BUILD

DIALOGUE WITH RELATED ORGANIZATIONS, IN PRESIDENTIAL STATEMENT

Special Committee Meeting with Such Organizations 7 March 2003

SECRETARY-GENERAL REITERATES FULL SUPPORT FOR MEDIATION EFFORTS

IN VENEZUELA BY OAS SECRETARY-GENERAL

The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES MEETING OF AFGHAN SUPPORT GROUP TO CONTINUE

TO INVEST IN RECOVERY AND SECURITY OF AFGHANISTAN

Following is the message by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the meeting of the Afghan Support Group, delivered by Lakhdar Brahimi, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Afghanistan, in Oslo today:

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES ACCORD ON POWER-SHARING

IN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO

The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

Security Council

4671^st Meeting (PM)

ANGOLA MOVES NEXT MONTH FROM AGENDA ITEM TO SECURITY COUNCIL MEMBER,

SAYS SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE IN LATEST BRIEFING

Security Council

4670^th Meeting* (PM)

SECURITY COUNCIL EXTENDS ISRAEL-SYRIA DISENGAGEMENT FORCE UNTIL 30 JUNE 2003

The Security Council this afternoon renewed the mandate of the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) for a period of six months, until   30 June 2003.  The Force has supervised ceasefire and disengagement between Israel and Syria since 1974.

INTERNATIONAL COURT FINDS THAT SOVEREIGNTY OVER ISLANDS

OF LIGITAN AND SIPADAN BELONGS TO MALAYSIA

(Reissued as received.)

THE HAGUE, 17 December (ICJ) -- The International Court of Justice, principal judicial organ of the United Nations, has today given Judgment in the case concerning Sovereignty over Pulau Ligitan and Pulau Sipadan (Indonesia/Malaysia).

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Plenary

75^th & 76^th Meetings (AM & PM)

COOPERATION WITH COUNCIL OF EUROPE, MINE ACTION, YEAR OF RICE (2004)

AMONG ISSUES ADDRESSED IN 19 TEXTS ADOPTED BY GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Resolutions Also Call for Special Assistance to States,

Coherent Response to Global Challenges, Millennium Declaration Review