Press Release

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Third Committee

39^th Meeting (AM)

UN REFUGEE HIGH COMMISSIONER REPORTS DROP IN NUMBER OF PEOPLE NEEDING PROTECTION,

SAYS NEW APPROACH NEEDED TO IMPROVE COOPERATION, IN STATEMENT TO THIRD COMMITTEE

Also Describes 'Development Through Local Integration' Concept;

Suggests New Agreements Needed to Address Nexus Between Migration, Asylum

IN UNCERTAIN TIMES, MORE IMPORTANT THAN EVER FOR PEOPLE TO LEARN ABOUT UN,

SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS TOUR GUIDES

Following is the message of Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the 50^th anniversary of guided tours at the United Nations, New York, on 6 November:

“Welcome to the United Nations.  My name is Kofi Annan, I’m from Ghana, and I’ll be your guide today.” 

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Second Committee

28^th Meeting (PM)

SECOND COMMITTEE DISCUSSES IMPACT OF ISRAELI OCCUPATION

ON PALESTINIANS AND ARABS OF SYRIAN GOLAN

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Third Committee

40^th Meeting (PM)

GENERAL ASSEMBLY TO BE ASKED TO ADOPT PROTOCOL ON TORTURE CONVENTION,

SETTING UP INSPECTION REGIME FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF ITS TERMS

COMMITTEE AGAINST TORTURE TO HOLD TWENTY-NINTH SESSION

AT PALAIS WILSON FROM 11 TO 22 NOVEMBER

Experts Scheduled to Consider Reports

From Spain,Egypt, Estonia, Cyprus and Venezuela

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Sixth Committee

28^th Meeting (AM)

WORK TO CONTINUE TOWARDS CONVENTION AGAINST HUMAN CLONING;

CONCERN EXPRESSED AT LACK OF TEMPORARY MORATORIUM

In other Action, Legal Committee - Ending Current Session – Approves

Texts on International Terrorism, Host Country Relations, Law Commission Report

Committee on the Inalienable Rights

of the Palestinian People

267^th Meeting (AM)

ADOPTING FOUR DRAFT TEXTS, PALESTINIAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE STRESSES

COMMITMENT TO TWO-STATE VISION IN MIDDLE EAST

Background Release                                          HR/4626*

2002 UN Pledging Conference

for World Food Programme

AM Meeting

SIX STATES, HOLY SEE PLEDGE CONTRIBUTIONS TO WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME

Six Member States and an observer mission pledged contributions this morning at the annual United Nations/Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Pledging Conference for the World Food Programme (WFP).

UNITED STATES SIGNS INTERNATIONAL TREATY ON PLANT GENETIC RESOURCES;

EASING WORLD HUNGER IS OBJECTIVE

ROME, 6 November (FAO) -- The United States has added its signature to an International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources which aims to ensure better use of genetic diversity to meet the challenge of eradicating world hunger, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said today.