Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Plenary

66^th Meeting (AM)

GENERAL ASSEMBLY ADOPTS SIX RESOLUTIONS AS IT CONCLUDES DEBATE

ON MIDDLE EAST SITUATION AND QUESTION OF PALESTINE

Speakers Call for Return to Peace

Negotiations and Israeli Withdrawal from Syrian Golan

SECRETARY-GENERAL COMMENDS AGREEMENT REACHED IN SUDAN

ALLOWING UNIMPEDED HUMANITARIAN ACCESS

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

JAMES LEMOYNE APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVISER ON COLOMBIA

The Secretary-General has appointed James LeMoyne as Special Adviser on Colombia.  Mr. LeMoyne had been serving as Acting Special Adviser since January 2002.  The appointment, at the Assistant Secretary-General level, is effective as of 1 November.

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Sixth Committee

23rd Meeting (AM)

LAW COMMISSION CHAIRMAN SEEKS RESPONSES FROM STATES TO SURVEY

ON TOPIC OF ‘PRACTICES RELATED TO UNILATERAL ACTS’

Legal Committee Reviews More Issues from Commission’s 2002 Report

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Third Committee

32^nd Meeting (PM)

HUMAN RIGHTS REPORTING PROCESS NEEDS IMPROVEMENT, THIRD COMMITTEE TOLD

Due mainly to a lack of resources, small developing States often faced tremendous difficulties in fulfilling their reporting obligations to international human rights treaty bodies, the representative of Australia told the General Assembly's Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural).

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

First Committee

25^th Meeting (AM)

ANTARCTIC TREATY RECOGNIZED AS FURTHERING UN CHARTER PRINCIPLES,

IN DRAFT RESOLUTION APPROVED BY FIRST COMMITTEE

Committee Concludes Work for Current Session

SECRETARY-GENERAL APPOINTS AMINATA S. DJERMAKOYE AS CHIEF OF PROTOCOL

Aminata S. Djermakoye, formerly Chef de Cabinet in the United Nations Office at Geneva, took up her appointment today, 1 November, as Chief of Protocol at United Nations Headquarters.

MINISTERS CALL FOR EFFECTIVE ACTION IN LIMITING EMISSIONS

AND REDUCING VULNERABILITY TO CLIMATE CHANGE

Delhi Declaration Links Climate Change to Sustainable Development

NEW DELHI, 1 November -- Ministers and senior officials from some

170 countries have adopted a Delhi Ministerial Declaration on climate change and sustainable development.

PRESIDENT OF UNITED NATIONS SECURITY COUNCIL AND CHAIRMAN

OF MILITARY STAFF COMMITTEE IN NOVEMBER

In accordance with the principle of alphabetical rotation, the following are the President of the United Nations Security Council and Chairman of the Military Staff Committee for November.

Security Council

SECRETARY-GENERAL INVITES PRESIDENTS OF CAMEROON, NIGERIA TO MEET

FOLLOWING WORLD COURT JUDGMENT ON BORDER DISPUTE

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

The Secretary-General has remained in contact with the Presidents of Cameroon and Nigeria following their meeting in Paris on 5 September, and subsequent to the judgment delivered by the International Court of Justice on