Disarmament Commission

2002 Organizational Session

2500^th Meeting (PM)

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Second Committee

12^th Meeting (AM)

MEXICO'S DELEGATE URGES METICULOUS EVALUATION OF PROGRESS ON MONTERREY

COMMITMENTS BY GENERAL ASSEMBLY'S HIGH-LEVEL DIALOGUE

Second Committee Discussion Focuses on Sustainable Development

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

First Committee

14^th & 15^th Meetings (AM & PM)

BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL WEAPONS, MIDDLE EAST NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION

AMONG ISSUES ADDRESSED BY 13 TEXTS INTRODUCED IN FIRST COMMITTEE

SECRETARY-GENERAL DEPLORES ISRAELI ATTACK ON REFUGEE CAMP IN GAZA STRIP;

CALLS ON ISRAEL TO HALT MILITARY ACTION IN HEAVILY POPULATED AREAS

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

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Third Committee

22^nd Meeting (AM)

DELEGATIONS IN THIRD COMMITTEE PRAISE LAUNCH OF PERMAMENT FORUM

ON INDIGENOUS ISSUES

Committee Approves Five Drafts on the Family, Literacy,

Youth Employment, Social Development, Ageing; Six Drafts on Women Introduced

SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS WORK FOR PEACE INEXTRICABLY LINKED

WITH WORK FOR DEVELOPMENT

Following is the text of remarks by Secretary-General Kofi Annan on receiving the Order of Dostyk from Nursultan Nazarbayev, President of Kazakhstan, in Astana today:

Secretary-General Kofi Annan, who left New York on Saturday, arrived on Sunday evening in Hangzhou, an attractive and prosperous lakeside city in a silk-producing region south of Shanghai that is said to have captured nearly a third of the world market in silk ties.

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Second Committee

11^th Meeting (PM)

URGENT NEED TO TRANSFER SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY TO DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

HIGHLIGHTED BY SPEAKERS IN SECOND COMMITTEE

Developed countries could and should fulfil commitments laid down in

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Third Committee

21^st Meeting (AM)

CONDITIONS OF PEACE, SECURITY ESSENTIAL FOR CHILDREN’S

PHYSICAL HEALTH, THIRD COMMITTEE TOLD

Committee Concludes Discussion of Children’s

Issues; Will Consider Indigenous People Tomorrow

PRESS STATEMENT ON DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT

The following press statement by Security Council President Martin Belinga-

Eboutou (Cameroon) was delivered on 15 October: