Fifty-seventh General Assembly

First Committee

2^nd Meeting (AM)

CHALLENGES TO DISARMAMENT FORMIDABLE, BUT BENEFITS WIDE AND RICH

SAYS UNDER-SECRETARY-GENERAL, AS FIRST COMMITTEE BEGINS DEBATE

Speakers Call for Revived Multilateral Efforts to Address Global Threats

                                                            SG/SM/8407

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Sixth Committee

4^th & 5^th Meetings (AM & PM)

LEGAL COMMITTEE REVIEWS ROLE OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE COMMISSION,

ON PROPOSALS TO ENLARGE MEMBERSHIP, ENSURE EFFICIENCY

Debate Also Begins on Report on Protection of UN, Related Personnel

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Fifth Committee

3^rd Meeting (AM)

SECURITY COUNCIL COMMITTEE ADDS NAMES OF FOUR INDIVIDUALS TO ITS LIST

The Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1267 (1999) on 30 September 2002 added the following individuals to its consolidated list (Al-Qaida section):

1.EL MOTASSADEQ, Mounir - Date of birth:  April 3, 1974;

            Place of birth:  Marrakesh/Morocco; Citizenship:  Morocco;

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN OCTOBER 2002

The following is a tentative list of United Nations meetings scheduled to be held in October, including major meetings of intergovernmental organizations related to the United Nations:

Meetings continued from previous month:

September/October      United Nations Staff Pension Committee

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Sixth Committee

3rd Meeting (AM)

SIXTH COMMITTEE CONSIDERS REQUESTS BY ORGANIZATIONS FOR GENERAL ASSEMBLY

OBSERVER STATUS, CONCLUDES DISCUSSION OF DIPLOMATIC PROTECTION

The Sixth Committee (Legal) considered requests for several organizations for observer status in the work of the General Assembly and announced that draft resolutions on the requests were being prepared this morning.

UNCC GOVERNING COUNCIL TO HOLD FORTY-FIFTH SESSION FROM 1 TO 3 OCTOBER 2002

(Reissued as received.)

GENEVA, 27 September -- The Governing Council of the United Nations Compensation Commission (UNCC) will hold its forty-fifth session from 1 to

3 October 2002 under the presidency of Ambassador Sverre Bergh Johansen (Norway).

Background Release

STALLED GLOBAL DISARMAMENT EFFORTS, TERRORIST USE OF MASS DESTRUCTION WEAPONS

SECRETARY-GENERAL PRAISES COURAGE, DETERMINATION OF TIMOR-LESTE

AT HEADQUARTERS FLAG-RAISING CEREMONY

Following are the remarks of Secretary-General Kofi Annan at the flag-raising ceremony for Timor-Leste in New York on 27 September:

Bom Dia,

This is an historic occasion.