Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Fifth Committee

12^th Meeting (AM)

FINANCIAL STABILITY OF UN ‘UNDER PRESSURE’ SAYS UNDER-SECRETARY-GENERAL

FOR MANAGEMENT AS FIFTH COMMITTEE CONSIDERS 2002-2003 BUDGET

Speakers also Address Conference Services, Language Parity on UN Web Site,

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Sixth Committee

17^th Meeting (AM)

LEGAL COMMITTEE, REVIEWING REGULATION OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE,

APPROVES TEXT OF MODEL LAW ON COMMERCIAL CONCILIATION

Report on Measures against Terrorism is Introduced; Current

Debate on Possible Convention against Human Cloning is Concluded

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Fourth Committee

12^th Meeting (PM)

UNDER-SECRETARY-GENERAL REVIEWS PAST YEAR’S PEACEKEEPING SUCCESSES,

DETAILS OUTSTANDING ISSUES, IN STATEMENT TO FOURTH COMMITTEE

Says Two-Year Focus on Reform Should Now Shift to Operations

Including Issues of Rapid Development, African Peacekeeping Capacity

SECRETARY-GENERAL APPOINTS NEW MILITARY ADVISER

IN PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS DEPARTMENT

The Secretary-General has appointed Major General Patrick Cammaert as Military Adviser in the Department of Peacekeeping Operations.  The appointment will become effective in November.

Major General Cammaert, a national of the Netherlands, will succeed Major General Tim Ford from Australia.

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Second Committee

13^th Meeting (AM)

SECOND COMMITTEE HEARS PLEA FOR INTERNATIONAL AID TO INTEGRATE

LANDLOCKED, CONFLICT-HIT TRANSITION STATES INTO WORLD ECONOMY

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

First Committee

16^th Meeting (AM)

IMPLEMENTATION OF DISARMAMENT AGREEMENTS, TERRORISM AND MASS DESTRUCTION WEAPONS

AMONG ISSUES ADDRESSED IN 17 TEXTS INTRODUCED IN FIRST COMMITTEE

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES SIGNING OF MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN

GOVERNMENT OF SUDAN AND SUDAN PEOPLE'S LIBERATION MOVEMENT

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN MESSAGE TO MEETING ON NOBEL PEACE LAUREATES,

SAYS SITUATION OVER IRAQ IS AMONG GRAVEST FACING WORLD TODAY

Principle of Multilateralism Said to Face Critical Test -– Even

Most Powerful Countries Know They Must Work with Others to Achieve Aims

Governance and accountability were among the key matters addressed by the Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) during its three-day consideration of the Board of Auditors reports, Auditor-General of South Africa and Chairman of the Board, Shauket Fakie, said this morning at the conclusion of that discussion.

Security Council

4626^th Meeting (PM)

SECURITY COUNCIL, IN PRESIDENTIAL STATEMENT, CALLS ON ALL PARTIES TO CONFLICT

IN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO TO CEASE HOSTILITIES IMMEDIATELY